To cover the ongoing Athens Olympic Games, Danish Broadcasting purchased a broadcast system from Silicon Graphics.

This allows its sports and news teams to work with a smaller clone extension of the complete digital workflow environment they use in Copenhagen. Danish Broadcasting whose newsroom of tomorrow
was designed by SGI to meet its specifications for a digital workflow regardless of location, conceived the idea of a "digital TV station in a box" last October as it began preparations for Olympics coverage.

The digital broadcasting environment which has been assembled in Athens after extensive testing in Copenhagen is based on a compact SGI Origin 300 server, two SGI Media Servers for broadcast systems, and one SGI Infinite Storage TP 9300S 6TB
Sata storage drive. Danish Broadcasting will be able to store from 200 to 400 hours of content, depending on whether the ingest format is DVCPRO25 or DVCPRO50.

Danish Broadcasting added that while most broadcasters had brought traditional analogue equipment for the games, it decided to construct a smaller version of its digital broadcast operations and ship it to Athens. This is, because, the company's journalists, editors and technicians were familiar with the applications they now run and they were all very happy with the ease of use and the immediate shared access of the SGI-implemented digital workflow.

Danish Broadcasting has around 54 people to Athens: 26 TV journalists/ENG teams equipped with approximately 30 PCs running Easy Cut software for low res, pre-editing; 17 radio journalists; two web producers, and several editors and technicians who have been stationed in the International Broadcasting Centre. The company also sent two satellite news vans.