SGI Open Broadcast Initiative Delivers Maximum Flexibility for
Data-Centric Workflows AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands, and MOUNTAIN
VIEW, Calif., IBC Stand 7.204, Sept. 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ --
Silicon Graphics Broadcast Europe is the dedicated media business
unit from Silicon Graphics (NYSE:SGI) offering IT-based broadcast
solutions and systems integration services to European
broadcasters. At IBC 2005, SGI will present the success achieved in
the first year of its inception with major integrated digital IT
infrastructure projects across Europe. Having successfully managed
the transition from a pure component supplier to an end-to-end
solution provider and system integrator for digital conversation
projects, SGI earlier launched the SGI Open Broadcast Initiative.
This Initiative enables broadcasters to move away from
proprietary-designed vertical solutions and to adopt the
best-of-breed applications and solutions in their transition from
analog to digital infrastructures -- handling vast amounts of data
more efficiently and cost-effectively and allowing for the
ingestion, sharing and storage of content within and between
facilities at speeds faster than real-time. SGI(R) digital
infrastructure solutions deliver interoperability and integration
to convert a customer's video-based workflow into an efficient
data-based workflow. These solutions are focused in the areas of
digital production, digital newsroom, digital intermediates,
server-based editing for news and sports, play out automation and
play out consolidation, content management and archive integrating
all facilities department versus separate departmentalized archive
islands. SGI is partnering with companies that favor openness.
Significant Open Broadcast Initiative partners throughout the
broadcast workflow include Ardendo, Aveco, Avid, Harris, iNews,
in:sight, Intel, MassTech, Octopus, Omneon, Panasonic, Pinnacle,
OmniBus, SGT, Sony and StorageTek. "Broadcasters are looking for an
IT solutions provider that understands broadcast workflow," said
Stephan Schindler, general manager, Silicon Graphics Broadcast
Europe. "With our deep systems integration experience in optimizing
best-of-breed broadcast applications we have decided to open up our
standards, our products and practices to give customers the ability
to choose the most effective solutions to be incorporated into
their broadcast solution designs and we can see that customers
really appreciate our open approach." SGI has expanded its
installations at: Danish Broadcasting Corporation (DR), EuroNews,
France T�l�visions Publicit� (FTP), France2, France3, and TF1,
among others. Among its successful broadcast installations
completed or currently underway are: -- In June, CIRIS, a
Netherlands post-production facility, acquired a complete SGI(R)
storage and server solution. This solution will enable CIRIS
customers to store, search, browse and access broadcast and other
content remotely. To provide a foundation for the CIRIS Dynamic
Platform project -- the first phase focused on implementing the
server and storage infrastructure and an asset management system,
CIRIS purchased a 30TB SGI(R) InfiniteStorage TP9300S storage array
with a 6GB SGI(R) Altix(R) server running the Linux(R) environment
with four Intel(R) Itanium(R) 2 processors, and a six-channel SGI
Media Server(TM) for broadcast solution with an InfiniteStorage
array. SGI partner Ardendo provided media asset management
components, and worked with Silicon Graphics Broadcast Europe on
custom integration and development. A Sony PetaSite system is
connected to the SGI TP9300S array, allowing CIRIS to scale to one
petabyte of storage capacity. -- Seeking to expand one of the
world's most advanced, workflow-efficient news and sports broadcast
facilities to include television program production, Danish
Broadcasting Corporation (DR) again turned to SGI compute power and
integration expertise, as it has done since the SGI and DR digital
conversion pilot program began in 1999. For this new stage, SGI, as
prime contractor, is currently halfway through the process of
enabling DR's asset management and archive system (co-developed by
SGI, Ardendo and DR) to handle workflow for program production
which includes SGI integration of 300 Avid DNA-based editing
systems. The June purchase also includes integrating a third SGI(R)
TP9500 storage system, doubling the central SGI server system to 24
and 48 processor systems, doubling network and Fibre Channel
connections, delivering and integrating 15 Ardendo Ardcap
dual-channel SDI/SDTI ingest systems and SGI(R) video servers for
studio productions, and developing ingest applications that support
Panasonic P2 cameras. -- ORF, Austria's public service broadcaster,
offers a wide range of TV and radio programs to its audience and
produces thousands of hours of original TV and radio programming,
and receives thousands more via satellite. ORF also operates an
extensive digital archive and Internet site. Seeking to establish a
standards-based, central editing storage infrastructure for 15
Pinnacle Systems editing stations, ORF purchased four SGI(R)
Altix(R) 350 mid-range servers to act as network-attached storage
(NAS) servers for a 14TB SGI(R) InfiniteStorage RM660 solution.
Connected via SGI(R) InfiniteStorage shared file system CXFS(TM),
the 15 non-linear editing (NLE) systems will share the storage
resources, with help from SGI networked editing software and two
Omneon video servers. Eventually, 30 NLEs will share the media data
store. The project will be installed in phases with full
implementation expected by the end of the year. -- Saarlandischer
Rundfunk (SR), a public broadcaster in southwestern Germany, has
awarded SGI the contract for Phase One of its transition to a
complete, integrated digital workflow for TV programming production
and playout and archiving of TV and radio material. In June, SR
ordered four SGI Media Server for broadcast systems, an SGI(R)
InfiniteStorage NAS system with 22TB total storage for
online/editing storage consisting of three SGI(R) InfiniteStorage
TP9700 systems, 27TB of near-line and tape-based storage managed by
SGI(R) Data Migration Facility (DMF), upgradeable to 65TB in Phase
2, and SGI networked editing software for efficient video editing
workflows to shorten time-to-air. The SGI hardware and software
will integrate with SGT media management and automation software, a
Dalet OpenMedia newsroom computer system, and six Pinnacle liquid
non-linear editing systems (an additional six editors are planned
for the second phase). Trial operation is expected to commence in
July 2006. -- Euskal Irrati Telebista (EiTB), the Basque Country
Regional Television from the north of Spain, transmits 6 TV
channels (2 regional, 2 Cable and 2 Satellite channels) plus 4
radio channels and an active Internet site. In order to move from a
tape environment and being able to ingest, edit and playout and
access the files remotely using more than 120 Pinnacle Broadcast
seats, in June, EiTB selected an SGI solution based on a central
storage SAN/NAS environment to act as the heart of their complex
news and editing solution and a video server network to integrate
with this storage solution. The order includes 5 SGI Altix 350
mid-range servers that offer SGI's industry-leading Altix
architecture providing breakthrough capabilities for technical
database, departmental server and throughput cluster applications,
SGI InfiniteStorage TP9700 with 14TB of Fiber Channel Storage,
2x4100 Brocade Switches, CISCO networking, SGI InfiniteStorage
Shared Filesystem CXFS, SGI networked editing software, 6 Omneon
Servers with a total of 97 Media Ports. -- Capital FX, one of the
UK's leading post-production companies, in the quarter ending in
June, selected SGI InfiniteStorage as the solution for their new
digital intermediate facility, based in London. The facility will
enable the ability to complete the film making process from the
digitization of raw shot rushes, through color grading, dust
busting, editing, compositing and film write out. Installing an SGI
InfiniteStorage RM SAN with CXFS, means that Capital FX is able to
centralize its digital workflow, while allowing multiple operations
to happen at the same time and reducing the requirement to copy
data-critical in this market, where a 90 minute feature film in 4K
resolution generates 16TB of data. -- The newly created
post-production company iFILM, in August, upgraded their existing
SGI InfiniteStorage SAN solution with two storage arrays, the SGI
TP9500 RAID storage array and the SGI InfiniteStorage RM6660 built
around two metadata servers and 15 client stations. A key selection
criteria for iFILM has been the GRIO V2 quality of service (QoS)
reservation architecture that allows ensured bandwidth to create,
manage and distribute high-resolution content efficiently and cost
effectively. The installation is expected to be complete in
September. -- Lapospo is a new state-of-the art post-production
house based in Barcelona operating in the advertising and movie
industries. For its brand new facilities they purchased, in the
quarter ending in June, an SGI InfiniteStorage SAN solution that
provides a single, centralized filesystem and instant data sharing
eliminating data access bottlenecks, ease administration and access
as well as a single point of backup. The GRIO V2 quality of service
(QoS) reservation architecture allows Lapospo to work in 2K and 4K
and to store up to four 2K movies at a time ensuring real-time
performance while allowing the facility to optimize the use of
available resources. -- Telson, a post-production company based in
Madrid recently decided to renew their entire SGI based
installation by purchasing eight Silicon Graphics Tezro
high-performance workstations to run Discreet(R) Smoke(R) and
Flame(R) and upgrading their SGI(R) Onyx(R) visualization system to
achieve the greatest visual realism, exceptional dynamic rendering,
interactivity, and group collaboration, in the quarter ending in
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in high-performance computing, visualization and storage. SGI's
vision is to provide technology that enables the most significant
scientific and creative breakthroughs of the 21st century. Whether
it's sharing images to aid in brain surgery, finding oil more
efficiently, studying global climate, providing technologies for
homeland security and defense or enabling the transition from
analog to digital broadcasting, SGI is dedicated to addressing the
next class of challenges for scientific, engineering and creative
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