Nevion has embraced the DataMiner platform from Skyline Communications, which is a leading supplier of multi-vendor network management solutions, and pre-integrated it with our video transport range of products. This gives our customers easy access to one of the most advanced network management platforms in the industry, which significantly reduces both implementation time and cost associated with deploying a network management solution.

This best-of-breed NMS solution provides:

• End-to-end management capabilities to reduce your operational costs
• Pre-integrated solution to minimize implementation time and costs
• The ability to create visual overviews of your network and services using Visio drawings
• Advanced automation, correlation and reporting capabilities
• Option of supporting multi-vendor equipment
• A scalable solution for small- and medium-sized installations to large installations

The Nevion DataMiner software provides functionality called Visual Overview, which allows the user to create visual drawings for monitoring of network, services and equipment. The functionality also supports a hierarchical structure where operators may drill-down from high-level network or service drawings to detailed equipment drawings. Equipment alarms will bubble-up from the detailed drawings to high-level drawings.

The Visual Overview allows the operator to quickly identify issues and pin-point the source of the issue, and allows the user experience to be fully customized to the needs of different operators. It is also possible to include configuration of network, services and equipment into the Visual Overview.

DataMiner provides the ability to represent the entire operational environment in a layered manner, with facilities navigation between layers according to the degree of detail required. The layered approach is reflected by the Surveyor Tree and Visual Overview, which provides the operator with a complete overview of the operational environment (depending on his access rights).

Visual Overview allows for the drawings of the various sites and sections to be linked together, and alarms from the lower levels will also bubble up to the higher level drawings, and operators can click on objects in the drawing to further drill down to more detailed drawings of the underlying pieces of the operational environment.

Nevion DataMiner allows you to access all monitoring and configuration parameters at the element level from the same console. This means that the operator does not have to access any element manager directly to perform detailed configurations or troubleshooting. It also allows you to enforce a security model where some operators only have read-only access while others are able to perform configurations of the elements. Another key advantage is that all operator actions are logged by the system providing a complete audit trail log of all configurations performed in the entire network.

The DataMiner solution, because of its unique distributed intelligence architecture, offers operators a unique opportunity to deploy the optimal solution for its individual requirements, whether that is centralized, regionalized or fully distributed. To assure maximum availability, all DataMiner Agents typically run on robust, professional industry standard server hardware, protected with redundant hot swap power supplies and hard disks (such that common hardware failures can be resolved without service interruption).