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	ACCELERATE: MEDIA BROADCAST - Czech Television Speeds and Simplifies FastGrowing Media Broadcast and Production Demands with Fully Integrated, Future-Proof DDN MEDIAScaler Storage Platform DataDirect Networks

ACCELERATE: MEDIA BROADCAST - Czech Television Speeds and Simplifies FastGrowing Media Broadcast and Production Demands with Fully Integrated, Future-Proof DDN MEDIAScaler Storage Platform

DataDirect Networks

Technology Category	Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Storage Services Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Hybrid Cloud
Applicable Industries	Telecommunications
Applicable Functions	Discrete Manufacturing Product Research & Development
Use Cases	Factory Operations Visibility & Intelligence Predictive Maintenance
Services	Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services System Integration
Challenge	Czech Television, the public television broadcaster in the Czech Republic, was facing a surge in digital video content and high-end video equipment which spurred the need for fast, scalable, robust, and reliable storage. The move to 4K uncompressed DPX workflows created a major spike in storage requirements, as the size of native raw files quadrupled as well as the performance required by the storage. Despite the massive data influx, Czech TV still had to guarantee flawless real-time workflows of concurrent UHD video streams—across ingest, editing, transcoding, distributing, and archiving. They needed to accommodate multiple teams of people working on the same large files all at once to perform necessary color correction, and as well as restore many old films in bad initial condition. Read More
About Customer	Czech Television is the public television broadcaster in the Czech Republic, delivering six channels of news, sports, family, arts, and educational content. The organization produces more than two-thirds of its programming using state-of-the-art television production technologies and services, including ultra-high-definition (UHD) formats. Additionally, Czech TV is a leader in hybrid viewing, with more than 87,000 hours of recordings archived for on-demand distribution to smart phones and hybrid TVs. As a broadcaster and post-production facility, Czech TV embraces the latest solutions to accelerate collaborative workflows and manage end-to-end media lifecycles. The organization’s fully featured postproduction suites are designed to meet any filmmaker’s requirements with transcoding, editing, Dolby® mixing, and color correction on the most current 4K media streams. Read More
Solution	Czech TV deployed DDN’s MEDIAScaler parallel file system which serves as an all-in-one, high-performance storage appliance with streamlined deployment and ensured ease of use by consolidating multiple workflows on a single system. It provides fast, efficient support for around-the-clock operations and has the ability to scale to capacity, and performance on demand keeps pace with a wide variety of media workflows. The deployment of the DDN MEDIAScaler with one petabyte of raw capacity was simple and straightforward. The installation and data migration from the legacy storage was completed in less than two weeks with no disruption to Czech TV’s 24-hour operation. Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Storage Services

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Hybrid Cloud

Applicable Industries

Telecommunications

Applicable Functions

Discrete Manufacturing

Product Research & Development

Use Cases

Factory Operations Visibility & Intelligence

Predictive Maintenance

Services

Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services

System Integration

Challenge

Czech Television, the public television broadcaster in the Czech Republic, was facing a surge in digital video content and high-end video equipment which spurred the need for fast, scalable, robust, and reliable storage. The move to 4K uncompressed DPX workflows created a major spike in storage requirements, as the size of native raw files quadrupled as well as the performance required by the storage. Despite the massive data influx, Czech TV still had to guarantee flawless real-time workflows of concurrent UHD video streams—across ingest, editing, transcoding, distributing, and archiving. They needed to accommodate multiple teams of people working on the same large files all at once to perform necessary color correction, and as well as restore many old films in bad initial condition.

About Customer

Czech Television is the public television broadcaster in the Czech Republic, delivering six channels of news, sports, family, arts, and educational content. The organization produces more than two-thirds of its programming using state-of-the-art television production technologies and services, including ultra-high-definition (UHD) formats. Additionally, Czech TV is a leader in hybrid viewing, with more than 87,000 hours of recordings archived for on-demand distribution to smart phones and hybrid TVs. As a broadcaster and post-production facility, Czech TV embraces the latest solutions to accelerate collaborative workflows and manage end-to-end media lifecycles. The organization’s fully featured postproduction suites are designed to meet any filmmaker’s requirements with transcoding, editing, Dolby® mixing, and color correction on the most current 4K media streams.

Solution

Czech TV deployed DDN’s MEDIAScaler parallel file system which serves as an all-in-one, high-performance storage appliance with streamlined deployment and ensured ease of use by consolidating multiple workflows on a single system. It provides fast, efficient support for around-the-clock operations and has the ability to scale to capacity, and performance on demand keeps pace with a wide variety of media workflows. The deployment of the DDN MEDIAScaler with one petabyte of raw capacity was simple and straightforward. The installation and data migration from the legacy storage was completed in less than two weeks with no disruption to Czech TV’s 24-hour operation.

Impact #1	Production teams readily manage multiple, high-end 4K workflows without bottlenecks.
Impact #2	Integrated platform enables use of a single system for data ingest, color correction, film restoration, transcoding, and finalizing media files.
Impact #3	Ability to add workflows on demand keeps pace with growing broadcast and production needs.

Impact #1

Production teams readily manage multiple, high-end 4K workflows without bottlenecks.

Impact #2

Integrated platform enables use of a single system for data ingest, color correction, film restoration, transcoding, and finalizing media files.

Impact #3

Ability to add workflows on demand keeps pace with growing broadcast and production needs.

Benefit #1	Up to five workstations doing real-time 4K DPX can work concurrently with no performance hit.
Benefit #2	The ability to integrate new clients on demand helps avoid any rigidity.
Benefit #3	OpenFlow support ensures fast, flexible path to open networking in the future.

Benefit #1

Up to five workstations doing real-time 4K DPX can work concurrently with no performance hit.

Benefit #2

The ability to integrate new clients on demand helps avoid any rigidity.

Benefit #3

OpenFlow support ensures fast, flexible path to open networking in the future.

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ACCELERATE: MEDIA BROADCAST - Czech Television Speeds and Simplifies FastGrowing Media Broadcast and Production Demands with Fully Integrated, Future-Proof DDN MEDIAScaler Storage Platform

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