Skyline Communications showcasing leading end-to-end multi-vendor network management solutions at NAB 2010 (booth SU 9417).
Izegem, Belgium, May 2010 – Skyline Communications, global leader in multi-vendor network management solutions for the IPTV, HFC broadband, broadcast and satellite industry, is showcasing at NAB 2010 the latest version of its awarded and globally deployed DataMiner network management platform. DataMiner enables operators in the aforementioned industries to manage their entire operational ecosystem end-to-end, across all vendor and technology boundaries, via one consolidated user-interface. Today, DataMiner is already integrated with over 1.750 products and systems from more than 300 industry vendors, making it by far the single largest multi-vendor network management platform ever available. At NAB 2010 Skyline is presenting the entire DataMiner software portfolio, including but not limited to reporting, correlation, scheduling and automation solutions. The spotlight will be shared between the new DataMiner Cube user-centric user interface and the revolutionary DataMiner CPE Manager, which redefines how operators can mine and cross-correlate information from large Customer Premises Equipment ecosystems (such as cable & DSL modems, set top boxes, etc.).
DataMiner Cube user interface, featuring an innovative and ground-breaking user-centric design. DataMiner Cube embodies an entirely new way of how operators can manage complex operational ecosystems, and will set a new benchmark for intuitive and efficient network management. Alongside DataMiner Cube, Skyline Communications is also highlighting DataMiner Customer Premises Equipment Manager (DMS-CPE), a new cutting-edge professional software platform, specifically designed for advanced management of very high volumes of CPE devices, such as cable or DSL modems, embedded multimedia terminal adapters (eMTAs) and set-top-boxes (STB) in both telco, HFC, FTTH and satellite environments. The latter makes DataMiner the first and only network management platform capable of managing a technology infrastructure literally from signal acquisition to signal delivery.
At the show, Skyline Communications is demonstrating how operators across various industries can use a single NMS platform to manage their entire operational ecosystem end-to-end across all vendor and technology boundaries, and interact with that environment more efficiently than ever before with the new DataMiner Cube user-centric user interface. DataMiner Cube leverages the latest software technologies, and features amongst other multi-language UIs, extensive user-definable drag and drop capabilities, and supports the latest generation of multi-touch screens.
DataMiner Customer Premises Equipment Manager (DMS-CPE) is a new cutting-edge professional software platform, specifically designed for advanced management of very high volumes of CPE devices, such as cable or DSL modems, embedded multimedia terminal adapters (eMTAs) and set-top-boxes (STB) in both telco, HFC, FTTH and satellite environments. DMS-CPE is capable of collecting any information from any and all CPE devices, and to provide the operator with an intuitive consolidated overview of the status of his entire CPE ecosystem. Via its intuitive web UI and multitude of industry standard interfaces, DMS-CPE generates significant added value for a wide variety of aspects of the operations (e.g. including overall QoE monitoring, engineering troubleshooting, customer support, marketing, etc.).
DMS-CPE is available as a standalone platform, with a multitude of interfaces for a seamless integration with all aspects of the operations (e.g. provisioning, OSS, trouble ticket systems, help desk environment, customer self care web portals, etc.), but can also be deployed as a fully integrated part of the renowned and widely deployed DataMiner multi-vendor NMS environment. The latter makes DataMiner the very first platform in the industry effectively enabling operators to view any possible active component in their ecosystem, from content acquisition in the headend to content delivery at the subscriber home, and across any possible vendor or technology boundaries.
DMS-CPE features full user-definable continuous round-robin collection of so-called Key Performance Indicators (KPI) from every single CPE device deployed in the field, and statistically processes those for different user-definable system layers (e.g. geographical and logical groupings such as streets, optical nodes, cities, DSLAM, CMTS, VOD groups, etc.) offering operators comprehensive real-time consolidated information, alarming, trending and reporting, etc. at all those user-defined levels. In addition to that DMS-CPE also supports so-called ad-hoc data collection of virtually any information that possibly can be retrieved from the CPE device. These ad-hoc sessions can either be initiated manually (e.g. to support help desk operations), by means of user-defined flags (e.g. for more detailed short term trouble shooting) optionally triggered by events in the operational ecosystem, or on scheduled bases.
DMS-CPE comes with a powerful distributed architecture, allowing the operator to run it across any number of physical servers, located at a single central location or distributed across different regions, and also supports disaster recovery hot redundancy functionality. This architecture provides a wealth of operational advantages, and allows operators to perfectly balance its power and speed.
The DMS-CPE platform is currently deployed by leading operators in the HFC broadband and IPTV industry, including for example Telenet and Belgacom, managing millions of CPE devices and has proven to drastically increase the overall visibility on the quality of service delivered throughout vast complex networks and consequently to drive down operational expenses.
Skyline Communications (www.skyline.be) is the global leading supplier of multi-vendor network management solutions for the HFC broadband, satellite, IPTV and broadcast industry. Our flagship DataMiner network management platform, which received various prestigious awards, enables end-to-end integration of the most complex technical ecosystems and has been deployed by leading operators such as Arab States Broadcasting Union, Belgacom, Broadcast Australia, Czech Television, European Space Agency, Eutelsat, Gateway Communications, GlobeCast, M6, MTV, Orascom Telecom, Overon, Roshan, RTL-TVI, Broadcasting Center Europe, Stratos Global, Telenet , Telenor, TelstraClear, TVE, UPC, Virgin Media, VOO, Ziggo, etc. DataMiner is today already integrated with over 1000 devices and systems from more than 200 key industry suppliers, and offers a plethora of functionality including unlimited web access, alarming, e-mail and SMS notification, long-term trending, professional reporting, advanced automation, intelligent correlation and root cause analysis, service management, real-time SLA monitoring, user-definable key performance indicator dashboards, spectrum monitoring, mobile access, powerful CPE management, and much more.
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