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August 28th, 2012

Skyline Communications... @ IBC2012 With... (SatBroadcasting™—Network Management)


[SatNews] Skyline Communications will launch DataMiner 7.5 at the IBC2012 exhibition in Amsterdam.

This major new release of DataMiner end-to-end network management platform is set to redefine again how operators can manage their entire operational ecosystem end-to-end across all vendor and technology boundaries. Among the program's many enhancements, DataMiner 7.5 will bring its users a new innovative and user-centric approach on notifications, a greatly enhanced service management layer, the introduction of DataMiner Applications that will empower advanced out-of-the-box solutions for a wealth of popular products and technologies, new add-ons for the correlation engine making the platform more intelligent than ever before, a complete suite of mobile applications extending the reach of DataMiner to any mobile device platform, and much more.

DataMiner Applications is an entirely new framework within the DataMiner network management system, which will enable designing out-of-the-box product- or technology-specific applications. These DataMiner Applications will be designed by Subject Matter Expert teams, composed by both the Company's own DataMiner experts and product experts from various leading vendors. This technology is going to bring the concept of consolidated open-architecture multi-vendor network management to a complete new level. In addition to some product specific solutions, which will be announced at a later stage, DataMiner 7.5 will offer our customers for example an advanced IP Network Manager DataMiner Application. This application will offer advanced capabilities to auto-discover end-to-end IP networks, to manage complex IP network configurations, to monitor IT assets and services, and much more. In other words, full-blown professional IP network management, fully integrated in the end-to-end broadcast network management platform. An indispensable asset for anybody active in satellite, IPTV, HFC broadband or broadcast these days.


Also, the DataMiner Service Management gets a complete overhaul in DataMiner 7.5, with a large number of advanced new capabilities. DataMiner Service Management is responsible for the run-time aggregation and translation of device information into service-oriented information. The technology is used today to manage a wide variety of services in satellite, IPTV, broadcast and HFC broadband environments. It enables operators to instantly see the impact of infrastructure incidents on a service level, and to take the appropriate actions to safeguard their revenues.

DataMiner is a leading multi-vendor network management solution, deployed by many hundreds of leading operators in more than 75 countries across the globe, managing and controlling some of the most prestigious IPTV, broadcast, HFC broadband and satellite ecosystems. Currently DataMiner is already integrated with more than 2,500 products from more than 350 industry vendors, which constitutes, by far, the most extensive multi-vendor solution ever available.