[SatNews] Skyline Communications will introduce DataMiner™ 6.5 at IBC2010, the latest version of the company's network management system (NMS).


This update significantly improves the operator's ability to manage large, complex networks by introducing innovative UI technology and by further expanding the reach of the platform down to the subscriber home. With this extended reach, DataMiner is the first NMS platform in the industry capable of providing a complete end-to-end perspective for operators. The DataMiner Cube™ UI, introduced as part of DataMiner 6.5, is the industry's first interface based on user-centric design principles that enable time savings, convenience, and an overall reduction in costly errors. The Cube UI leverages the DataMiner data acquisition, processing, and presentation capabilities to provide a web-based interface that enables the operator to navigate intuitively within even the most complex operational ecosystems. Among the many innovations offered by DataMiner Cube are user-definable drag and drop, intelligent searching, interactive scripting, and user-definable graphing. The system is also multi-touch-enabled for use on the latest generation of displays.

The DataMiner Cube UI also interfaces seamlessly with popular applications like Microsoft® Visio®, Excel®, and Word to enable simple and consistent information updates that help prevent user errors that can occur during data re-entry. To help operators manage their services and infrastructure more closely and accurately than ever before, DataMiner 6.5 includes the company's latest advanced customer-premises equipment (CPE) manager. This highly innovative platform mines valuable data from every single CPE object within the network such as set-top boxes, cable and DSL modems, eMTAs, and more. DataMiner CPE Manager™ enables a detailed and precise look at every CPE element at speeds of many thousands of elements per second. At these speeds, DataMiner can evaluate the status of vast networks comprised of millions of CPEs in less than 15 minutes. The speed and accuracy of this system, combined with its very unique real-time multidimensional correlation capabilities, enables DataMiner to locate the root-cause of any operational problem along the entire service delivery chain at the moment it happens, generating considerable operational savings and improved customer satisfaction.