Skyline Communications, leading supplier of network management solutions, is presenting at IBC 2006 the premiere of the 4.2 release of its award-winning DataMiner multi-vendor network management platform for HFC broadband, satellite, broadcast and IPTV environments. The release features again groundbreaking new developments designed to further reduce operational expenses, and includes DMS Executive Dashboards, DMS Business Intelligence and DMS Mobile Web Access. DataMiner is currently deployed by industry leaders, such as Belgacom, Essent Kabelcom, Eutelsat, ntl Telewest and Telenet, and has already more than 650 different drivers deployed in the field for equipment and element management systems from over 140 different leading suppliers.

DMS Business Intelligence is the first solution in the industry which enables operators to track in real-time the Service Level Agreement (SLA) performance of their operations, and to consult detailed historical SLA performance data. The solution provides real-time visibility on the true business performance of the most complex technical environments, allowing operators to supply a much higher level of service quality and to optimize business results by allocating available resources where business impact is the highest. When SLA's degrade and close in on user-defined thresholds, DMS Business Intelligence is capable of instantly notifying key personnel such that appropriate actions can be taken to protect revenues.

DMS Executive Dashboards is a brand new, sta te-of-the-art platform independent and user-defined web interface, which allows operators to consolidate all the essential information and Key Performance Indicators (KPI) of the most complex multi-vendor technical environments into a single intuitive graphical user interface. DMS Executive Dashboards supports displaying information from any device, system, service or SLA, and is therefore suitable for serving information to any layer in the corporation, from engineering to management. The solution will significantly reduce the time to respond to system issues, and allows the various levels of a corporation to get a better understanding of the operations.

DMS Mobile Web Access is a new uniform graphical user interface, specifically tailored for the latest generation of mobile devices, including smart phones, PDA's and UMPC's. It enables users from virtually any location to consult information on devices, systems, services and SLA's across the entire operational environment. Therefore the solution will introduce further operational savings, by allowing people to tap into the vast amount of information contained in the DMS environment at any time, and wherever they are, with common industry standard tools.