Dimetis BOSS BROADCAST Manager is an easy-to-use, comprehensive management software platform for monitoring, configuration, and control of streaming facilities, multiplex centers, IPTV, Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB) and Advanced Television Systems (ATSC/HDTV). BOSS BROADCAST Manager is capable of monitoring a large number of devices independently of manufacturer and technology, while hiding the complexity from the user. Processes and workflows in broadcast distribution environments can now be effortlessly streamlined. All distribution workflows such as event, regionalization switching, backup switching, statistical multiplexing and service-based scrambling can be monitored and managed from a single system.

Inventory / Configuration Management BOSS BROADCAST Manager inventory maintains real-time information of an entire broadcast network facility. It manages both physical (i.e. MUX) and logical (i.e. VLAN) assets of a broadcast network. The configuration management allows users an easy and flexible configuration of all components, metadata, and signals in the network.

Activation Engine The activation engine is a unique abstraction layer that takes the configuration sequence from inventory and communicates with devices or respective EMS using different protocols such as CORBA, XML, SNMP, Telnet, etc. The activation can be triggered by the event manager, or in case of a hardware-fault, it can be executed from the error correlation engine.

Fault Management - 100% Uptime The fault management feature allows for alarms to be grouped based on their origin/OID in “domains”. Domains allow for a sophisticated analysis of incidents in a large networks with thousands of traps. The Error Correlation Engine is capable of initiating a redundancy switching process in case of failure. This automation is based on Dimetis’ sophisticated algorithms that guarantee a services uptimes of up to 100%.

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BOSS STREAM Viewer is a software-based multiviewer monitoring system for DVB/Digital Video Broadcasting/Asynchronous Serial Interface (DVB/ASI) and IP. It supports Modulator Interface (T2-MI) for Second Generation Digital Terrestrial TV (DVB-T2) for both ASI and IP. The Dimetis BOSS STREAM Viewer can monitor and analyze SDI streams in cable, satellite-terrestrial, compression centers, play-out and transmission centers, DVB, OTT, Web and IPTV headends, network operations centers and IPTV distribution networks.

OTT Streaming - The Dimetis BOSS STREAM Viewer will be able to inspect HTTP Live Streaming (HLS), HTTP Dynamic Streaming (HDS) and Real-Time Messaging Protocol (RTMP).

In the digital video broadcasting and internet worlds, there is a diversity of existing infrastructures for the distribution of DVB, Internet and IPTV. Today’s multiviewer systems must be flexible in the handling of various source formats. The Dimetis BOSS STREAM Viewer can handle DVB conform transport streams over IP and ASI, and SDI uncompressed video in mixed operation in SD and HD.

This scalable system can provide real-time analysis of DVB, content and quality level (blocking and blurring), while decoding and displaying video, audio, teletext and subtitle services. The entire alarming thresholds are configurable and the system is capable of notifying any 3rd party monitoring or management system, such as the Dimetis BOSS BROADCAST ManagerTM, with alerts, problem or quality conditions. Application areas include DVB analysis, content and quality analysis, management of multiple sources, video and audio decoding, teletext decoding and DBV/TXT subtitles. The Dimetis BOSS STREAM Viewer comes “out of the box” and can easily be integrated in broadcaster’s environment as it operates on standard server hardware. With the combination of SDI and DVB signals, BOSS STREAM Viewer is perfect for comparing incoming and outgoing signals on one single screen.

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Dimetis mX Media Exchange is a powerful media workflow automation platform for broadcasters, service providers and content creators. It provides comprehensive management, automation and transfer of large files with enhanced metadata handling for video and audio files while providing an elegant user experience. mX Media Exchange enables the creation and management of complex file-based workflows and easily connects with 3rd party systems (transcoders, file checkers, workflow and process systems, WAN accelerators, wrappers, NMS’s, storage, planning tools and more). mX Media Exchange can be deployed as standalone or cloud-based, and is based on a modularized architecture for unmatched flexibility and scalability.

Advanced Metadata Editor and Management Users can view, edit and manage a powerful set of technical and editorial metadata with the mX Media Exchange editor – Frame rate, duration of video (and duration of usable content), start frame, file name, file format, size, scanning and codec information, audio coding, and much more. For an efficient workflow, mX can automatically import metadata from remote sources such as Media Asset Management (MAM) systems, planning systems, and media files. mX can read and export metadata based on given or required metadata formats. For a quick lookup of files, they can be tagged and categorized. Because metadata is directly integrated with workflows, you can define rules which trigger decision-based workflows based on metadata input (FlowControl).

Workflow Builder Build your own workflows with the graphical-based Workflow Builder to automate technical processes like transcoding and QC, or to notify users when their job has been completed. Orchestrate your existing tools and systems, trigger systems to take actions and share your data between different storage systems. With the latest new scripting feature, you can take control and enhance workflows to communicate with your own applications and transform existing scripts into one umbrella platform.

Preview Player The mX Media Exchange preview player was developed to achieve a real-time view of video files, without the need of any browser plugins. The player also supports the selection of available audio channels in real-time and provides demuxing of streams. Users can also inspect all the metadata and audio levels of a file within the preview player.

3rd Party Systems Integration mX Media Exchange provides many interfaces to 3rd party applications and systems such as file checkers, transfer systems (Aspera, Signiant, Tixel, etc.), transcoders, storage, wrappers and metadata servers. mX Media Exchange can be entirely controlled from external systems by Rest JSON or XML-based REST API.

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Dimetis OpsNGN is a carrier-grade, fluid next generation OSS orchestration platform for hybrid networks supporting legacy, Software Defined Networks (SDN) and Network Functions Virtualized (NFV). Using a true Dynamic Inventory model, OpsNGN provides Communication Service Providers (CSPs) with service and network agility, life cycle service automation (including deploy, scale, heal and terminate), service assurance, and the power to scale up and out in a multi-vendor environment.

OpsNGN is the natural evolution of Dimetis BOSS LINK Manager™ (end-to-end hardware-agnostic configuration system) and fully integrates with existing OSS/BSS systems and other orchestrators. OpsNGN provides a 3-layer orchestration approach:

1. Application Orchestration — Coupling between legacy OSS environments and Dimetis OpsNGN to federate all network and service data required for composing network and service configurations without a lengthy and expensive systems integration approach. 2. Service Orchestration — Delivers a seamless end-to-end configuration of services over multi-layer, multi-domain, heterogeneous network infrastructures.

3. Network Orchestration — Allows for highly scalable, parallel network configuration transaction operations for maintaining the network.

Dynamic Inventory Inventory integrity is at the very core of a successful migration to virtualized networks. Using Dimetis’s year’s of experience in inventory discovery technology, OpsNGN has been developed to provide real-time and stateful resource management to reconcile the “as-built” with the “as-designed” network and service inventory.

ETSI Management and Orchestration (MANO) Reference Model OpsNGN has incorporated the ETSI MANO model into the next gen OSS platform to manage NFV Orchestrator, VNF Manager(s), EMS functionality and integration to exposed VNFs. • Service aware across VIM and PIM domains • Automated context-aware scripting for faster service delivery • Supports for vCPE, SD-WAN, EVPN, dynamic service assurance and analytics