Airplay from iPhone/iPad unable to connect half of the time

I have a new 3rd Gen/1080p Apple TV I bought the other day.
I also have a iPhone 4S and a 'new' iPad.
All are running on the latest ios versions, including the iPhone/iPad ios version from yesterday which claims to have fixed some airplay bugs.
The problem is that more then half the time I attempt to use airplay, or display mirroring, it fails. In every case the little icon is always visible on the iPhone/iPad, so there isn't an issue with connectivity. I can try one time and it fails, then a half hour later it works, and then fails again later. When it does fail, I click on the airplay icon, and select Apple TV and it pops back to local display after about 2 seconds.
For Connectivity, the Apple TV is connected via ethernet (I've tried via WiFi also, no difference), and the iPad/iPhone is on WiFi obviously. There aren't many hotspots in the area, indeed I think this is the only one on 5Ghz. Also interference is not an issue.
The router is a Cisco E3000, and I've checked all it's settings and there is nothing that looks like it would interfere. Obviously I've tried turning off the Firewall (which should only be filtering inbound traffic anyway), and there are no issues with host-to-host communication within the LAN anyway - I have a WD TV live and a NAS which get along just fine.
I've never experienced any connectivity issues with the iPad - it's rock solid.
So - can anyone suggest anything that might be wrong?
It's looking like an Apple problem to me. I'm going to see if I can sniff the commuication tonight using Wireshark, but I'd expect it to be encrypted and therefore impossible to see what's happening.

OK, just got my above issue resolved by a Power Outage. Seems all it needed was a full reset of the Servers.
Go figure.

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If you are talking about Airplay instead, use this article for iOS devices:
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And this one for iTunes on your Mac:
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