Abstract: A system implementing a method for determining QoS degradations comprises: receiving alarms (a) from application layer or from network nodes of a MPLS network, including Passive Traffic Analyzer, Physical Layer Monitoring and MPLS OAM nodes, depending on the alarm, the system requests testing (d) for location and the network nodes answer back with location (e), once the fault is located, the system starts traffic restoration (h) via MPLS Signaling and receives the result (i), the system may need to consult the System Database, optionally query (b)—reply (c) step before requesting location, while query (f)—response (g) step is mandatory before restoration (h), once traffic restored, further testing by the network nodes and/or the application layer are triggered (j) by the system to ensure the correct overall QoS within the new network situation, a loop (i) of further restoration can be triggered by the system until a global stable non-degraded behavior is declared.

Abstract: A system including a live streaming optimizer server for optimal distribution of live media content, and a method for implementing the system. The system including at least one user provided with a computing device requesting a live media content; and a controller located in the distribution network of a content delivery network being adapted to receive said requesting and to transmit said requested live media content to said at least one user, and a live streaming optimizer (LISTO) server located in the transport network of said content delivery network and adapted to request said live media content to an identified content delivery network end point in a certain domain and adapted to transmit said live media content to said at least one user.