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ESPN Star Sports (ESS) has selected SeaChange International's
Broadcast MediaCluster video server system for on-air delivery
of television programming to viewers in 25 countries including
India.
Over 360 hours of broadcast material will be stored on the
stand-alone video server system and it will deliver eight
regional television channels in English, Hindi, Mandarin
and Cantonese. ESPN Star Sports' Broadcast MediaCluster
deployment will be live at the end of August, says an official
release.
ESS says it chose Broadcast MediaCluster on the basis of
around-the-clock reliability, simple expandability and unique
storage protection. More than 500 field staff throughout
Asia capture sports content for ESS network programming,
which emanates from a 60,000 square-foot, state-of-the-art
production and transmission facility in Singapore. Here,
SeaChange's Broadcast MediaCluster takes the role of on-air
server. The operator has also taken on board a new Encoda
Automation system, which has been integrated with SeaChange
video server systems in customer deployments around the
world.
SeaChange's Broadcast MediaClusters are comprised of `server
nodes,' which leverage it's patented RAID2 ("raid squared")
architecture to scale gracefully in storage and I/O capacity,
while providing the only single copy, 100% fault-resilient
video server in the broadcast market. ESPN Star Sports'
choice, the Broadcast MediaCluster 1650 series, uses as
many as 16 disk drives per server node and delivers over
40 I/Os in a seven-node configuration.
Says ESS director of engineering Andy Rylance, "Singapore
is a hotbed of technologically advanced television operations
that reach out across Asia. Through numerous noteworthy
deployments here, SeaChange and its partner Magna Systems
have earned a solid reputation for cost-performance and
local service. We surveyed a number of approaches for our
on-air content playback and SeaChange's Broadcast MediaCluster
really came out strongest on our top criteria - the ability
to withstand any frame failure without any extended interruption
to our services."
SeaChange International claims to be the world leader in
digital video systems that are changing television.
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