Press: DataMiner finalist for 2007 Teleport Awards for Excellence.

Izegem, February 2007,

“It is a great honor for us to be listed as a finalist for this fiercely contested Teleport Technology Of The Year Award organized by the WTA, and it underlines the innovative character of our DataMiner Business Intelligence solution and the fact that it can make significant contributions for today’s modern teleport operations,” commented Bert Vandenberghe, Software R&D Director at Skyline Communications. “DMS-BI enables satellite, HFC broadband, broadcast and IPTV operators to manage their entire operational environment, across all vendor and technology boundaries, from a very valuable business perspective.  The solution features real-time SLA compliance checking, open industry standard architecture based on technologies such as XML and SNMP, comprehensive web and e-mail reporting, predictive SLA compliance, fixed and sliding window time evaluation frames, and much more.”

With DMS-BI in place, any issues identified in the operational environment are instantly presented to the operator in the context of the historical performance of the affected services.  Based on that unique perspective created by DMS-BI, operators can easily prioritize resource allocation where business impact is peaking.  And where today’s common monitoring solutions show a system with a deceptive clean bill of health, DMS-BI is now capable to instantly pinpoint issues hidden below the surface and lurking around the corner to deteriorate business severely in a blink of the eye.  This allows those DMS-BI enabled operators to easily take preemptive measurements before business is affected.

The winners from this group of finalists will be named by WTA during an invitational ceremony and luncheon at Satellite 2007 in Washington next week.

About DataMiner

DataMiner is the most innovative and cost-effective monitoring and control solution, specifically designed for the HFC broadband, satellite, broadcast and telecom industry to remotely manage and control every aspect of the technical infrastructure. DataMiner offers you the ultimate scalability, and is capable of handling everything from small systems to large, corporate deployments. DataMiner features an open, standards-based architecture based on advanced web interfaces, and renders all your proprietary devices into fully SNMP compatible units. DataMiner can be interfaced with any third party device, independent it's interface, and drivers can be modified or created by anybody.

Association (WTA) has been the only trade association that focuses on the business of satellite communications from the ground up.  At the core of our membership are the world's most innovative operators of teleports, from independents to multinationals, niche service providers to global hybrid carriers.  They provide a broad and expanding range of value-added services, from origination of TV and radio channels to the integration and management of complex networks, and from IP-based content distribution to mobile telephony backhaul.