Mediaproxy and Skyline improved their LogServer / DataMiner integration to ease the process of accessing and using the data obtained from the interaction between the two systems.
Mediaproxy’s LogServer compliance monitoring system, known for its role in TV distribution, is now expanding into media data aggregation and orchestration through an on-going technical partnership with Skyline Communications, developer of the DataMiner transformation platform.
When integration between LogServer and DataMiner began in 2017, it was initially based on APIs and focused primarily on the data collection control panel of the Skyline system.
About 18 months ago, the engineering teams at Mediaproxy and Skyline started to collaborate on forming stronger connections between their products, resulting in a closer, more formalized working relationship. As well as improving the LogServer / DataMiner integration, the aim was to ease the process of accessing and using the data obtained from the interaction between the two systems.
Acquisition and Orchestration with AI Features
Skyline Communications develops digital transformation software for ICT (information and communication technology) media and broadband operators. DataMiner is a data acquisition, control and orchestration platform with a wide range of real-time monitoring and analytical capabilities, and includes AI features such as forecasting, anomaly detection and automatic incident tracking. DataMiner Cloud Services enhance the DataMiner stack functions to set up secure dashboard and data sharing with external users, remote access and direct integration in Microsoft Teams.
DataMiner’s modular function stack is huge, very versatile and agnostic to data formats, data sources, protocols, event log formats and vendors. Other AI-based functions it encompasses include proactive behavioural monitoring, asset and inventory management, process and workflow automation, and capacity- and capability-aware orchestration of complex services. Using the DataMiner data and control plane and their own resources, operators can create a standardised, secure, real-time digital twin of their entire operation for DevOps teams.
Through the digital twin, DataMiner is able to access information gathered by and recorded onto Mediaproxy LogServer, such as what programs and commercials have been distributed on a particular network. This can then be aggregated to give broadcasters a full view of what is being transmitted and where it is being watched.
Compliance and Live Monitoring
Broadcasters use LogServer to maintain standards of compliance that satisfy regulations imposed by legislators and governing bodies. The software is capable of multi-channel recording, review and live monitoring of video, audio and real-time data sources in many formats. Mediaproxy's desktop and mobile UIs give direct access to media via play controls, and carry out metadata searches, clip export and transcoding across distributed systems on local or wide area networks.
Logserver has a configurable software-based IP multiviewer that mixes various video, audio and meta data formats on one display including SMPTE 2022-6 including metadata monitoring. It includes exception-based monitoring featuring interactive penalty boxes, closed caption, OTT and DVB subtitle panels and live source mismatch detection.
Evolving Integration
This integration was first demonstrated at the 2024 NAB Show in Las Vegas during April and will again form a major part of the displays at Mediaproxy’s and Skyline Communications’ stands at IBC 2024 in Amsterdam. Thomas Gunkel, global market director broadcast at Skyline said, "The intention is to show a real-life use case, with the connector that is already in place plus a straightforward, customizable data consumption layer on top of it, which is able to analyse the (SCTE) triggers in a stream as well as filtering information about the status of the media being carried."
Erik Otto, chief executive of Mediaproxy, commented, "A technology relationship has existed between Mediaproxy and Skyline Communications for some time, but it is only in the last year or so that it has become a formal collaboration. It is a partnership that is bringing our two companies closer together and will see more integration with third party products.
The two manufacturers will each demonstrate how the two systems can be integrated, and discuss how clients of both companies can take advantage of it. Erik said, “The demonstration at the NAB Show laid out how LogServer and DataMiner now work together, and we hope to show the latest developments in this exciting, ongoing collaboration at IBC." www.mediaproxy.com
