Television Broadcast System Solution

The SGI Broadcast System Solution is a proven broadcast facility-wide infrastructure, which intelligently integrates information technology (IT) advancements into the video domain. It includes servers, storage, and networking with ingest, edit, automation, and archival applications found in broadcasting today.

Solution Name Broadcast System
Industry Public and commercial broadcast television network stations
Application Segment Provides IT infrastructure (servers, storage, networking) for broadcast production and operational workflow
Customer Need Broadcasters are faced with flat or declining revenues and want to continue streamlining operations while simultaneously increasing the quality of their on-air product. They are also locked into proprietary video equipment: video servers, videotape recorders, video routers and switchers, and legacy video cart machines (video archives), which are expensive to maintain and lack operational flexibility.
Benefits
  • This solution simplifies workflow and reduces dependence on black-box legacy gear to provide increased efficiencies and enable the long-term transition to an IT-enhanced data-centric workflow (dataflow)
  • Interface to best-of-breed editing and automation systems allows tighter integration across entire facility versus digital islands
  • Shared SAN architectures integrated with facility-wide data network provide increased access to video content and lower cost
  • Strong networking and storage architectures increase production efficiency and easy reuse of assets
SGI Value Proposition
  • Manipulation of video as data files within an open filesystem allows the SGI solution to be more flexible and incorporate IT storage and networking advancements more rapidly than proprietary competitive offerings
  • Based on standard server architecture, solution allows rapid upgrade of storage and networking technologies for price and efficiencies
Recent installations Multiple proof points in Europe include France Television, TF1, Danish Broadcasting, BR, SWR, Swedish Television, and Czech TV.