070131 BOSS Broadcast NetView® Monitoring System

Wednesday 31.January 2007

Dimetis Unveils the BOSS Broadcast NetView®   Monitoring System

Part of the unique BOSS Platform®  for Broadcast OSS applications, including IPTV & DVB/ATSC 

Dietzenbach, Germany, January 29, 2007 – Dimetis GmbH, an OSS supplier to world-class, large-scale Telecommunication, Media and Broadcast carriers in Europe and North America, has announced the release of its NetView monitoring system.

SNMP-based and vendor-independent, the BOSS BROADCAST NetView®  is designed to monitor and manage signal flows across the broadcast video value chain from content origination to distribution, encompassing studios, play-out centers and complex delivery networks for both DVB/ATSC and IPTV environments.  It provides real-time visibility into all devices and components of a video network, enabling the integration of devices and element managers from various manufacturers into one comprehensive, centralized system through the use of a versatile MIB import tool.

A modular structure allows it to be licensed by network size and function, permitting a low-cost entry point but with the ability to scale to very large configurations supporting more than 500 devices with 20,000+ parameters.  The NetView’s client/server Java architecture can also be ported to different platforms.  The initial release supports Windows Server 2003.

One intuitive GUI configures and controls the entire network, displaying high-level graphical element overviews of all devices, connections and system status, with the ability to drill down into specific equipment details. Powerful filtering through sophisticated correlation and structured design techniques quickly isolates & identifies root-cause faults while screening secondary effects.

Other noteworthy features that distinguish BOSS BROADCAST NetView from other less comprehensive, less sophisticated monitoring systems include:

  • Centralized fault management with
    • Alarm-triggered automatic or manual redundancy switching of high value equipment based on Services profiles (i.e.  for MPEG encoders, Remuxes, etc)
    • Fault recognition / extensive alarm processing (filtering, correlation)
    • User error messages (SMS, fax, email, etc)
  • Disaster Recovery
  • Event logging of all alarms, user and system actions
  • Archiving/Housekeeping
  • User administration

Dimetis, headquartered in Dietzenbach, Germany is a leading software and hardware Systems Integrator, providing standards-based & customized OSS solutions. Its BOSS platform is deployed in various configurations at some of the world’s largest Carriers and TV Broadcasters, including Broadwing-USA, Deutsche Telekom, Globalcast-France Telecom, SRG SSR-idée suisse, WDR, BR and ORS/ORF.  

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