Channel Lineups Manager

Our solution will help you view, document, track, store, and access multiple channel lineups, channels and devices through a single web interface.

The best part? There is no manual set-up – everything is fully automated. Our solution integrates with most popular STB/IPTV controllers that include:

• Cisco EC (formerly DNCS)
• Arris DAC (formerly Motorola DAC)
• Ericsson MSMW
• IPTV Presentation Servers
• Other IP-delivered television service controllers

With our Channel Lineups Manager solution, everything you want will be right at your fingertips, including:

• Disaster Recovery information
• Controller and Provisioning information
• Source Equipment
• Multicast IPs
• Transport streams
• Edge QAM or Edge Streamer
• Service Type (for non-IPTV solutions – SDV, HD, OnDemand, etc.)
• Service Format (for IPTV solutions – HLS, ISM, DASH, etc.)
• Service Information (encryption, format, manifest URL and composition, etc.)
• Packaging info
• Edge Device status
• Alarms and Performance information

Everything is simple to see and easy to understand so you can manage your lineup data faster and more efficiently.

Benefits

• Drastically speeds up troubleshooting in outage situations
• Provides a platform to streamline business processes
• Aids in planning activities
• Provides means to perform change verification checks
• Up to date hardware inventory, simplifies hardware lifecycle process

Detailed Specifications

Automatic Channel Lineups Data Acquisition

• Automated import of Channel Lineups (EC, DAC, ROVI, Ericsson MSMW, Presentation Servers, Custom Databases, etc.)
• Automatic import of supplemental source related data from most content processing equipment including: Ericsson 4K Encoder, Elemental Encoder, Cisco DCM Transcoder, Imagine JITP Packagers, ProStream/Electra Encoders (NMX), DM6400, CAP-100, MMC, SEP48, SEM, CV1100, Imagine VMG, and many more.
• Automatic import of supplemental encryption related data from most encryption equipment including: NE2500, Netcrypt, Verimatrix, and others.
• Automatic import of supplemental packaging related data from most common packaging devices including Imagine JITP Packagers.
• Automatic import of supplemental SDV related data from most SDV controllers including: Cisco USRM, BigBand SDV, etc.
• Automatic license, capacity, software version, chassis information, etc. collection across aforementioned equipment.

Troubleshooting

• Drastically speeds up troubleshooting in outage situations.
• Ensures only up-to-date and correct information is displayed by collecting on-demand configuration information.
• Keeps track of channel disaster recovery information with ability to automatically locate alternative source feeds.

Reports

• Reports to aid in capacity planning, spectrum analysis, bandwidth usage, disaster recovery status.
• Hardware inventory report.
• Encoding/transcoding/packaging/processing license utilization report.
• Custom reports can be developed upon request.

Mobile Application

• Mobile application for iOS, Android and BlackBerry that enables easy on the go access to most channel lineup information for field/service technicians and other support staff.

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