Skyline Communications, the global leader in unified digital ecosystem management and orchestration across telecom, broadcast, satellite, and smart infrastructure, today announced the launch of Contribution Cockpit, a groundbreaking solution to manage contribution feeds that will make its debut at IBC 2025.
“Contribution Cockpit gives media organizations and live content operators the freedom to manage their contribution feeds across any vendor, protocol, or location — all from a single user interface,” said Pierre Delelis, Product Manager at Skyline Communications. “By combining booking, resource management, orchestration, and real-time monitoring, it ensures that operations run smoothly and securely, without conflicts or manual workarounds. We’re excited to announce our preview at IBC of how Contribution Cockpit empowers teams to simplify contribution workflows and unlock new levels of agility in live media operations.”
A single cockpit for live contribution operations
With the launch of Contribution Cockpit, Skyline further expands its MediaOps.LIVE suite, designed to simplify signal management and infrastructure control during live events. Contribution Cockpit provides a holistic environment for managing the full life cycle of live contribution feeds across multiple vendors, domains, and sites. It combines scheduling, booking, routing, and real-time monitoring into one cohesive solution ensuring no resource conflicts, automated security, and seamless collaboration between teams.
“This is a powerful new add-on to our MediaOps Live solution,” said Ben Vandenberghe, CEO at Skyline Communications. “Fully powered by our DataMiner xOps foundation, it delivers an agile, unified, and data-driven platform that integrates workflows across planning, operations, and asset management. By extending MediaOps Live with Contribution Cockpit, we provide a single environment to manage bookings, resources, and contribution feeds with unmatched efficiency, visibility, and security.”
Simplifying contribution operations
“Contribution Cockpit addresses one of the biggest challenges broadcasters face today: managing increasingly complex contribution environments,” said Thomas Gunkel, Broadcast Market Director at Skyline Communications. “By unifying inventory management, booking, routing, monitoring and service assurance into a single cockpit, it eliminates resource conflicts, strengthens security through automation, and empowers operational teams to collaborate with confidence and agility.”
Contribution Cockpit has been designed with multiple stakeholders in mind, including:
- Contribution & booking teams managing resource reservations and event scheduling.
- MCR operators setting up and monitoring contribution feeds in real time.
- Engineering teams deploying multi-vendor, multi-site contribution workflows.
- Operations & production teams needing end-to-end visibility of live feeds.
- News gathering teams managing live feeds from field reporters and remote locations.
Multi-domain scheduling, booking, and resource management
Contribution Cockpit introduces a unified booking and scheduling engine for live contribution. The system prevents resource conflicts across encoders, gateways, and contribution circuits, while centralizing resource management to ensure optimal allocation of contribution infrastructure. Each team (booking desks, MCR, etc.) has its own dedicated environment to configure and monitor streams without interfering with one another.
Vendor-neutral & endpoint-agnostic
The platform will over time natively integrate with a wide range of contribution technology partners, including Techex, Net Insight, Ateme, Appear, LiveU, and many more. Built on DataMiner’s extensive ecosystem of integrations, Contribution Cockpit can ultimately support any broadcast and contribution vendors. This ensures that teams can flexibly manage feeds regardless of vendor, domain, or delivery technology — from IP protocols like SRT, RIST, and Zixi to traditional satellite-based contribution.
Real-time monitoring & assurance
From initial setup through live operations, Contribution Cockpit gives teams instant visibility on feed health with alarm indicators and detailed performance metrics. This real-time view helps operators troubleshoot faster and keep contribution services running smoothly across distributed sites.
End-to-end orchestration & automation
Beyond booking and monitoring, Contribution Cockpit enables full workflow orchestration across multi-vendor environments. Automated provisioning and dynamic routing reduce operational workload, minimize errors, and ensure feeds are delivered with speed and reliability.
Inventory management
Contribution Cockpit extends beyond operational planning to include a full inventory management layer. It keeps track of all contribution-related assets, from encoders, decoders, and gateways to circuits, racks, and facility equipment. This ensures that teams always know what resources exist, where they are deployed, and in what condition, enabling better maintenance planning, faster troubleshooting, and smarter long-term investment decisions.
Secure by design
Automated workflows make contribution operations safer by reducing manual error and ensuring that at the end of each event, all connections are cut. Security features extend to role-based environments, ensuring teams only control what is relevant to their responsibilities.
Exclusive preview at IBC 2025
Contribution Cockpit will be previewed at IBC 2025 in Amsterdam, as part of the Skyline DataMiner xOps platform. Visitors can experience new applications and use cases firsthand on the show floor.