Artesia Technologies and Sun are working together to deliver a new digital media infrastructure for WGBH, supporting the public broadcasting station's television, radio, and web programming efforts.

After an extensive review of available digital asset management software solutions, WGBH selected Artesia's TEAMS for a pilot program that will develop a system-wide framework for the creation of enhanced digital broadcasting, including new forms of rich media-based, interactive programming. The TEAMS pilot also addresses another of the project's goals, which is to more efficiently produce multiple varieties of content from a single set of assets, including television and radio programming, IMAX films, rich media web sites, books, and promotional material, for multichannel distribution to a variety of devices.

The software will be running on a combination of Sun servers, Sun's StorEdge T3 array, Sun StoreEdge network FC switches, and Solaris, which will provide WGBH with a high-performance storage area network (SAN) that is scalable and reliable to meet the station's evolving needs.

Given the exponential growth projected for the amount of digital media under management, broadcasters like WGBH face a critical need for proven architecture that will allow them to effectively access, manage, and deploy vast arrays of rich media. The proven combination of TEAMS with the robust Sun storage area network lets such organizations create a single repository with centralized, secure, web-based access to all of their assets. Specific applications available within TEAMS can be used to reformat assets from one type to another, to bring various asset types together to form new interactive media for digital broadcasting and streaming media applications, and to create offline edits from the desktop. [...read more...]

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