BBC Technology which provides rich-media technology solutions has announced the launch of new Colledia products. Colledia is its flagship media lifecycle management product portfolio, which enables broadcasters, film companies and other media-driven organisations of all sizes to produce high-quality content more efficiently at every stage of the media creation, management and distribution lifecycle.

Built on the Colledia Workflow platform, BBC Technology will be bringing to market the following products: Colledia for Sports, Colledia for News and Colledia for Production. An official release informs that in addition Colledia Control, previously known as Broadcast Network Control System (BNCS), is also available. Example applications of the product portfolio are being demonstrated at NAB 2003 taking place in Las Vegas.

Colledia for Sports: This product addresses the current changes in traditional sports production workflows. The product integrates the entire sports production process, supporting real-time and non-real-time distributed and collaborative production workflows; enabling a library of archive stock shots stored near-line for direct access; providing a single common interface for accessing all systems; and comprising components that are built to withstand the rigors of broadcast quality production and playout.

Colledia for News : The release states that BBC Technology's Colledia for News product addresses the tape-based problems common to many broadcasters, which result from the sheer growth in news output. These challenges include: locating appropriate footage in a timely manner; minimizing storage, transport, duplication and redundancy costs; managing the proliferation of incoming media and media formats while reducing "time to air"; dealing with fragmentation of workflows and the increased number of production "silos."

Colledia for Production: With this product BBC Technology is the first to market a solution that digitises and seamlessly integrates the entire production process. Developed initially to support the BBC's extensive and complex production activities, it addresses the problems inherent in tape-based production. Colledia for Production manages and automates complex productions such as documentary and magazine programming. It supports ingest, play-out and transcode at production quality with collaborative support. It is based on open standards and therefore integrates easily with existing systems; and scales from small departments to enterprise-wide deployments.

Colledia Control: It provides flexible and reliable control across all areas of broadcast infrastructure and operations, across modern and legacy equipment, from one user-friendly, touch screen interface. The product improves productivity and cost efficiency by enabling a single operator to manage an entire broadcasting infrastructure and operation, from content creation to distribution. Colledia Control can interface with over 5,000 different pieces of broadcast equipment the release states.