Harmonic Enhances Headend Management, Monitoring

Harmonic's (www.harmonicinc.com) NMX Digital Service Manager 6 (NMX 6) is an enhanced network management solution designed to provide tools for monitoring and managing video processing and delivery systems. New capabilities include an enhanced GUI, streamlined workflow management, improved alarm management and a comprehensive dashboard view to simplify service management and facilitate troubleshooting and analysis.An operator-friendly user interface offers intuitive navigation, an operator centric workflow, troubleshooting dashboard view, alarm correlation, drag-and-drop capabilities, and auto-connect network wizards for Harmonic's FLEX and ACE video processing technologies. Service creation, configuration and system performance, including failover and recovery time, are improved by 50 percent or more in initial testing. System load time and map import/activation are also accelerated by 20 percent. The total number of streams supported per server is doubled, with notable gains in the total number of devices supported as well.