Izegem, Belgium, September 2015 – Skyline Communications, global leader in end-to-end multi-vendor network management and OSS software solutions for the broadcast, satellite, cable, IPTV and mobile industry, announces that Telenor Satellite Broadcasting AS has selected DataMiner to automate its operations end to end. SkylineCorp in Belgium is an american owned company with the american investor BlackRock and Norges Banks Investment Management as large owners, reportes Nordic News.
Telenor Satellite Broadcasting (TSBc) is a leading European satellite provider of broadcast and broadband services for customers in the broadcast, maritime, and oil and gas markets. TSBc owns a fleet of high-powered and high-quality satellites providing capacity throughout Europe, the Middle East and Africa. DataMiner has been announced as CSI awards finalist 2015for “Best monitoring or network management solution.
Strategic Choice
-Building upon our good experiences with DataMiner managing the network, we decided to extend the reach of the DataMiner NMS and OSS into some of the more strategic parts of our operations, says Kjell Aksberg, Director of Operations at Telenor Satellite Broadcasting. “DataMiner OSS/BSS Gateway links our network infrastructure with our day-to-day operations and customer service desk, allowing our operational team to focus on new technology and business areas rather than to spend time on routine tasks.”
Fully Automated Manner
DataMiner reads service configurations from TSBc’s existing service configuration database and, with that information, provisions the entire network in a fully automated manner. This includes the provisioning of all network elements like receivers, encoders, transmitters, etc. regardless of vendor or type of device. The creation of confidence monitoring configurations for video probes and RF testing equipment is also automated. No duplicate provisioning is ever needed, since all configurations are provisioned automatically from the service configuration database. In the event that the network configuration is different from the service configuration database, e.g. because certain network equipment has been disconnected, because new processing cards have been added, or even because the actual configuration of the equipment differs from the service configuration database, DataMiner automatically reports those changes back to the service configuration database. As a result, DataMiner provides the much wanted 100% consistency between the actual network provisioning and TSBc’s service provisioning database.
Cooperation with Skyline
DataMiner also adds a unified service monitoring and an end-to-end service orchestration layer on top of the different technologies in TSBC’s infrastructure. Service flows with dynamic path and alarm highlighting always provide a comprehensive view on the service flow across different network devices from AppearTV, Bridge Technologies, etc. Powerful alarm correlation rules generate service-oriented alarms, which are automatically translated into trouble tickets by DataMiner.
-DataMiner truly combines network management with operations, resulting in the highest possible operational efficiency and the lowest mean time to repair. The new DataMiner OSS/BSS Gateway provides an unmatched, unified view on the entire organization: engineering, operations, and helpdesk. DataMiner sits at the heart of the operations of TSBc, and re-establishes itself again as one of the most strategic assets of any complex operation , said Ben Vandenberghe, CEO at Skyline Communications. At Skyline Communications everything revolves around innovation. The company continuously invests in software research and development, striving to make more intelligent software applications, to assist its customers in driving down their operational cost, while increasing the quality of its services.
Independant Company
Skyline Communications is a fully independent corporation with no potential conflicting activities. Our new low energy HQ respects the environment and reflects our vision on sustainable responsible business. The product DataMiner(end to end multi vendor) today is already integrated with over 4500 devices and systems from more than 500 key industry suppliers, and offers a plethora of functionality including unlimited web access, alarming, email 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, inventory and asset management, and much more.Skyline’s Corporate headquarters is in Elkhart, Indiana. It houses marketing services, accounting, information technology, engineering, product development, financial, legal and other corporate functions. Products are built by 11 operating divisions located in 9 states across the country. Of the 11 divisions, 9 produce housing and 2 produce RVs.Skyline Corporation is one of the largest producers of manufactured and modular housing in the United States, visit www.skylinecorp.com.
Norges Banks Investment Partner
Norwegian Banks Investment Management is the second largest owner in american BlackRock voting for ten per cent of the share capital( 7,15 per cent and BlackRocks 2,73 %). NBIM and Black Rock are today partners in banks in Switserland ,German car industries, and major Japaneese financial institutions. Mr. Laurence D. Fink is Chairman & Chief Executive Officer at BlackRock, Inc., BlackRock Capital Management, Inc., BlackRock Advisors LLC, BlackRock Investment Management LLC, BlackRock Financial Management, Inc., and at BlackRock Fund Advisors, and Co-Chairman at NYU Langone Medical Center and NYU Hospitals Center.
He is on the Board of Directors at BlackRock CoRI Funds, Robin Hood Foundation, New York University, The Boys’ Club of New York, The Financial Services Roundtable, The Museum of Modern Art, and Council on Foreign Relations, Inc.Prior to founding BlackRock in 1988, Mr. Fink was a member of the Management Committee and a Managing Director of The First Boston Corporation, and is one of the Norwegian oil Revenue Funds most important adisors today, reports Nordic News.
