Skyline Communications, the leading supplier of multi-vendor network management solutions, recently announced that ATEME (Bievres, France), an acclaimed provider of MPEG-4 AVC / H.264 video encoding technology, has signed a DataMiner Strategic Partnership (DSP) agreement. This follows ATEME’s decision to include Skyline’s flagship DataMiner multi-vendor network management platform throughout its product portfolio as the company’s standard network management solution.

DataMiner provides monitoring and remote control of the ATEME products and a wide range of advanced functionality. This includes:
* long-term trending
* professional reporting via e-mail triggered by system events or time schedule
* advanced automation for applications such as N+M redundancy switching
* intelligent alarm correlation
* intuitive bubble-up and drill-down UI’s
* comprehensive service and SLA management
* real-time KPI dashboards,

“ATEME has become synonymous with the best in MPEG-4 technology and our encoding solutions have already been adopted by customers who require the best quality and flexibility in their deployments,” said Sylvain Riviere, Executive Vice President of Marketing for ATEME. “To best enable our customers with the best possible NMS solution, we have chosen to partners with Skyline. Their DataMiner is by far the superior NMS solution in our industry, and we are very pleased to have forged this relationship with them.”

“Through this agreement, ATEME’s customers will be able to capitalize on proven and widely deployed network management technology, offering superior functionality and flexibility,” added Ben Vandenberghe, Sales & Marketing Director of Skyline Communications. “This agreement underlines how strongly committed ATEME is to the success of its customers, and it will undoubtedly put them ahead in the market thanks to our complementary technology.”

At IBC 2007 Skyline Communications (booth 1.414) will be unveiling the 5.0 release of its flagship DataMiner NMS platform, and the solution will also be on display at ATEME’s booth (1.580) along with its Kyrion® family of MPEG-4 AVC video acquisition products for broadcast and on-demand services.

About ATEME
ATEME (www.ateme.com) is a world-leading provider of MPEG-4 / H.264 video compression solutions. ATEME’s renowned technology supports both standard and HD content, deployed across any platform – from mobile to Ultra HD. ATEME provides broadcasters, telcos and security providers with unmatched compression quality while simultaneously licensing its unique MPEG technology and expertise to select vendors.

ATEME – Because Content Deploys Everywhere.

About Skyline Communications
Skyline Communications (www.skyline.be) is the global leading supplier of multi-vendor network management solutions for the HFC broadband, satellite, IPTV and broadcast industry. Our flagship DataMiner network management platform, which received various prestigious awards, enables end-to-end integration of the most complex technical ecosystems and has been deployed by leading operators such as @Home, Belgacom, Betv, Eutelsat, Globecast, RTL’s Broadcasting Center Europe, Telenet , Telenor, Virgin Media, etc. DataMiner is today already integrated with over 850 devices and systems from more than 165 key industry suppliers, and offers a plethora of functionality including unlimited web access, alarming, e-mail and SMS notification, long-term trending, professional reporting, advanced automation, intelligent correlation, service monitoring, real-time SLA monitoring, user-definable key performance indicator dashboards, spectrum monitoring, mobile access, CPE management, and much more.