Remote Management System for complete visibility and control over all IPTV, MobileTV and VoD Transcoding Services. Designed to cooperate closely with all HERA Transcoding Appliances in order to deliver 24/7 availability and superior QoS for both Live and File-based Transcoding Services. HMS is fully customizable and can accommodate simultaneously different failover policies allowing operators, systems integrators and content owners to deploy services organically with minimum operational cost.