Pictured, from left to right, after accepting the WTA award: Roger Bijos, Sales & Marketing Director, and Steven Soenens, Product Marketing Director, Skyline Communications.
[Satnews] Skyline Communications, a global leader in end-to-end multi-vendor network management and OSS software solutions for the broadcast, satellite, cable, telco and mobile industries, has announced that their cutting-edge, nexgen network management platform—DataMiner—was awarded the World Teleport Association's (WTA) Teleport Technology of the year award for 2016.
Satnews Publisher Silvano Payne was on hand at the awards and captured the moment with a photo of not only the Skyline Communications executives who received the WTA award, but also of the award itself.
The WTA Award given to Skyline Communications for the 2016 Teleport Technology of the Year, DataMiner.
DataMiner provides broadcasters, satellite operators, and cable, telco and mobile service providers with an unprecedented end-to-end visibility and control over their entire network and operations, across any possible vendor and technology boundaries. As a result of continued far-reaching innovation by the highly skilled team of Skyline Communications, DataMiner has already been selected by more than 650 customers in over 100 countries around the world, to manage some of the most prestigious infrastructures more efficiently and more intuitively than ever before, and the award-winning platform keeps on gaining momentum as the undisputed leader in NMS & OSS technology.
“DataMiner 9.0 again overhauls the NMS/OSS landscape. Its innovative end-to-end service and resource orchestration technology enables operators to book, schedule and automate the setup of complex services over the entire network without compromises. Never before have teleport operators been able to run complex services so easily across multiple satellite segments, frequency bands, multi-spot beam constellations, fiber links and gateways,” said Steven Soenens, Product Marketing Director at Skyline Communications. “DataMiner truly turns teleport operators into network operators, enabling many new business models and services offerings. In the past, operators’ business growth was capped because of proprietary and closed infrastructures both for SCPC and VSAT. With DataMiner, operators transcend any such limitations: they can deploy the most suitable technologies at optimal capital and operational cost, and seamlessly run services end to end. DataMiner has become the most strategic asset available to create profitable business growth, and as such it is one of the most fundamental building blocks of any teleport business dedicated to success.”
“DataMiner already manages more than 4500 products from over 500 different technology vendors in the media industry, which is unprecedented. This truly unique multi-vendor aspect, and the vendor independence of the corporation behind the product, set DataMiner apart from any other system on the market, and it is the foundation of all those successful deployments worldwide. As a result, DataMiner has become the leading platform to manage SNG networks, sports contribution, broadcast exchange networks, studios, VoD assets, playouts, cable and telco headends, satellite uplinks, DTH, DTT, cable and telco plants, etc.,” said Ben Vandenberghe, CEO at Skyline Communications. “And our quest continues today with our investments in sophisticated big data analytics, further expanding the reach of DataMiner to monitor QoS of millions of remote terminals in a pro-active manner, faster than any other system on the market. Operational excellence of our customers is peaking because of DataMiner.”
The winners of the award were announced at the 21st annual Teleport Awards for Excellence Ceremony and Luncheon on March 8 during the SATELLITE conference at the Gaylord National Convention Center in National Harbor, Maryland.
