DataMiner (Skyline Communications) will orchestrate the MCR and NOC operations of the Belgian RTBF

The French-speaking public radio and television of Belgium, RTBF, has opted for DataMiner as an orchestration platform for the main control room (MCR) and network operations center (NOC) teams of its new Media Square building.

As part of your transfer to the building Media Square In 2026, RTBF is carrying out a comprehensive technological update, moving from SDI to an infrastructure ST 2110. Along with this change, RTBF has selected DataMiner for automate your business planning and operational and technical workflows, allowing for efficient and highly automated management of your signal infrastructure and operations. The system, which has been integrated together with the control system Cerebrum of EVS, will be deployed 24 hours a day to schedule and orchestrate contribution feeds and broadcast signals, and monitor services and infrastructure.

Gilles Schmitz, project manager of RTBF, valora muy positivamente el rendimiento de la solución de Skyline Communications, a quien consideran “el socio ideal”. “DataMiner nos ofrece una plataforma completa para gestionar todas nuestras fuentes: desde fibra y satélite hasta protocolos públicos de Internet cada vez más populares, como SRT. Además, la capacidad de enrutar cualquier señal ST2110 a través de la integración con nuestro sistema de control Cerebrum y de supervisar en profundidad nuestra red ST2110 y todos los flujos de medios a través de toda la red de RTBF se ha convertido en algo indispensable. Con DataMiner, estamos creando una pila única, y tenemos una única interfaz de usuario para casi todo el mundo en nuestro MCR/NOC”. Schmitz también destaca del sistema la capacidad de plan events in advance, assign resources automatically and allow operators to make real-time adjustments using the software's parameter control and routing panels XY.

From Skyline Communications, Thomas Gunke, director of the broadcast market, highlights some of the key applications of the system for RTBF: “Our award-winning solution dataminer.MediaOps is the backbone and 24/7 control surface of RTBF's MCR and NOC staff. It offers a set of ready-to-use applications, such as those that manage RTBF online and offline resources, schedule events, and enable real-time signal switching. But we're also aware that every media company has its own workflows, and that's where our custom apps come into play. For example, RTBF will use an application MCR Cockpit highly adapted to seamlessly link signal chains across multiple processing units, quickly and easily. More importantly, RTBF teams will be able to evolve these low-code applications over time in a truly DevOps manner.”