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High-Bandwidth Scalable Storage

 Today’s broadcasters face enormous challenges in dealing with digital content workflows and massive file sizes. As workflows become increasingly open-systems based, and the choice of applications becomes greater than ever, the importance of a scalable, highly optimizable storage solution is enormous. Storage is at the heart of every digital broadcast environment, and must be both highly reliable and extremely flexible. Active Storage products were built with those attributes at their core, along with ease of use, and ease of deployment.

    Broadcast is no longer just about the on-air portion of the business. Managing content and allowing for quick utilization and repurposing across multiple distribution segments is no longer a luxury; rather, it’s become a requirement.

    The industry is becoming more competitive; delays in moving and processing content are simply no longer acceptable. Today, with high-performance multi-core processing power available on both servers and desktop computers, and storage systems possessing the bandwidth to deliver faster than real time performance with the lowest and most consistent latency possible, the entire workflow efficiency comes down to this: how good is your storage solution? Active Storage is up to the challenge of even the most demanding, enterprise level, 24/7 broadcast environments.

    Ingest, transformation and playout, while now fully digital, still involve many steps and often pass through many different applications and vendors making the efficiency of content storage and availability all that more important. The competence of the infrastructure must be guaranteed. This is no simple task, as the integration of all components is important.

    The use of Mac OS X, Linux and Windows in the same workflow makes the problem even more complex. Unlike some storage providers, Active Storage products were designed to facilitate seamless integration of multi-platform systems, as opposed to typical data storage companies force-fitting their products to work with Final Cut Pro or other Apple products. Further, our products have been designed to effortlessly handle the massive size and scope of HD video files—a real problem for other data storage providers.

    Active Storage is addressing the problems of broadcast digital content workflow by offering an open system storage solution, based on industry standards. By doing so, Active Storage can ensure compatibility with a larger number of open systems and maintain the ability to qualify additional systems more quickly.

Active Storage technology provides a self-optimizing architecture that lends itself well to the changing and demanding needs of broadcasters using and moving to open systems. Our extensive knowledge of Modern OS systems such as Mac OS X and Linux give Active Storage the unique ability to derive the greatest throughput and reliability, when dealing with the large file size of content used in broadcast. Active Storage’s experience with complex workflows and interfacing with open system partners within some of the premier owned-content broadcasters around the world, provides a real-world perspective on how optimized media production and playout systems can, and should work.

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