Meinberg and Skyline Communications
The Company
Meinberg is a global technology leader with more than 100 employees developing and manufacturing time and frequency synchronization systems for a wide range of applications worldwide. Meinberg provides synchronization solutions for energy, finance, media, telecom and space, defense, traffic control and industrial networks.
Meinberg products are comprised of high quality components and modules, acting as flexible functional blocks that can be combined and configured to address the most varied and complex customer requirements. This adaptable, innovative approach to product management is well-established in the LANTIME NTP Time Servers, and today adds impact to the recently launched Intelligent Modular Synchronization (IMS) product line. IMS solutions are focused on the growing field of synchronization technologies, offering a range of high performance timing solutions for networks of any size and industry. Meinberg also offers a broad spectrum of proven GPS receivers, WWVB, DCF77 (PZF) and MSF radio clocks, bus-level timing cards and associated accessories.
Meinberg has a long lasting relationship with Skyline which started off with the development of connectors for the Meinberg product range, specifically the non-modular and modular Meinberg LANTIME series
Just recently Meinberg has released the new Meinberg Network Management System, an out-of-the-box NMS solution which runs on standard DataMiner software and is sold by Meinberg.
Meinberg & Skyline
Meinberg Network Management System (mbgNMS)
Created from a partnership and joint development between Skyline Communications and Meinberg, this central platform automatically detects, provisions, and monitors all your Meinberg applications. mbgNMS is dedicated to Meinberg products based on Skyline’s dataminer platform.
More detailed information on the Meinberg Network Management System is available on the Meinberg website.
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Meinberg NMS or DataMiner? How to migrate?
As the Meinberg NMS is based on a standard DataMiner platform, both Meinberg and Skyline customers can benefit from that. Feel free to start off with a Meinberg NMS and add 3rd party products to it or transition a Meinberg NMS into a full DataMiner system. Also existing DataMiner customers can always expand their system and add the "Meinberg Element Manager" to get everything the Meinberg NMS offers.
The below overview describes four basic migration scenarios:
Start with Meinberg NMS
Transition into full DataMiner system & transition into Skyline customer
Notes:
| *1 requires one license per non-modular Meinberg product, one license per modular Meinberg chassis & one license per Meinberg modular card (IMS series) - HPS-card: by default one DataMiner element is created per PTP instance, i.e. more than one license is required per card. This behavior can be turned off. - Syncmon-card: SyncMon card can optionally create a separate DataMiner element. If turned on, each SycnMon card needs an element license. - Meinberg Element Manager, IDP elements: no element license required. |
| *2 mandatory |
| *3 requires one license per 3rd-party product instance |
| *4 engineering services on top of Meinberg NMS, e.g. add Visual or create an automation script. “Meinberg Element Manager”-APP itself cannot be changed. |
| *5 no need to order Meinberg connectors or Meinberg Element Manager, those will be transitioned to the DataMiner platform |
| *6 DataMiner IDP APP needs to be purchased separately |
More
Are you using Meinberg clocks in an PTP ecosystem? Then have a look into the DataMiner PTP APP .
Are you interested after customer examples? Check out our use case section! [need use case on Meinberg NMS, Meinberg connectors etc...]
Interested in a demo?
Feel free to reach out to Meinberg or Skyline's sales team. We have demo systems available to show you everything around the Meinberg NMS and DataMiner.
