“Ardendo is excited to support the Omneon MediaGrid content library and have already written to its API. Broadcasters will appreciate the system’s ability to adapt to the changing resiliency and bandwidth needs of daily news production. And we think our customers will also appreciate storing content in one place where they can also transcode that content for various production needs and delivery vehicles.”

Erik Ahlen, VP Sales and Marketing, Ardendo

“We have already written to the Omneon media API so it will be easy for us to interface to the MediaGrid content library. And it is going to be less complex to manage content that is stored in one central location versus the many storage locations in today’s facilities.”

Dave Neal, CEO, Crispin Corporation

“Front Porch Digital has established a tight integration with Omneon products, and today we jointly serve over 20 of the world's largest digital broadcast operations. Given the strength of our relationship and the demand for our combined best-of-breed products, we were eager to embrace Omneon's new MediaGrid system. We expect it will become an important part of future deployments of DIVArchive, and we will work closely with Omneon to deliver the maximum performance and reliability our customers expect between technology partners.”

Mike Knaisch, President, Front Porch Digital

“Omneon has addressed head-on the challenges of large storage for broadcasters. The architecture of the Omneon MediaGrid content library — its bandwidth scalability, media-aware API, and inherent media processing power — will allow our applications to more efficiently improve client access to content and overall workflows.”

Sudy Shen, CEO, MassTech Group

“The MediaGrid allows us to move the separate islands that have built up over time, particularly browse, transcoding, rewrapping, and file-flattening and put those right into the central storage. That removes the need for separate hardware and also a lot of separate vendor integration.”

Spencer Rodd, Technical Director, Pharos Communications

“Rhozet is excited to be working with Omneon to deliver integrated transcoding for the Omneon MediaGrid content library. Omneon’s sophisticated grid architecture provides for an ideal environment for Rhozet’s advanced grid encoding technology.”

David Trescot, CEO, Rhozet

“We can see that the MediaGrid content library is an awesome piece of technology that’s going to be the perfect scalable solution for our customers.”

Bruce Devlin, VP Technology, Snell & Wilcox

“Starfish Technologies is delighted to offer two active applications integrated with the Omneon MediaGrid. ‘Compositor’ embeds Closed Caption and Audio Description files directly into Omneon encoded media thereby dramatically simplifying transmission workflow, whilst our Logging application records directly onto the MediaGrid providing customers with networked review capabilities.”

Pete Blatchford, Sales and Marketing Director, Starfish Technologies

“Sundance Digital is pleased to support our valued partner Omneon in launching a significant advancement in storage technology — the MediaGrid. Our broadcast industry clients will welcome a scalable, cost-effective storage solution to offset the proliferation of formats and distribution channels.”

Robert C. Johnson, President, Sundance Digital

“Omneon has really hit the sweet spot for digital media storage with the MediaGrid. Its comprehensive integration capabilities will enable us to provide our broadcast and media customers with a significant step change in managing their digital media throughout the content lifecycle.”

Tony Taylor, Chairman, CEO, TMD

“We are extremely pleased to be partnered with Omneon and to have previewed the MediaGrid content library. The MediaGrid architecture provides for high-performance processing power integrated with flexible shared storage of large files. This combination will be an essential advantage to Venaca’s customers. Omneon continues to be a leader in delivering quality products to the broadcasting and content management communities.”

George Grippo, President, COO, Venaca

About Omneon
Omneon, Inc., is a leading provider of scalable media server and active storage systems that optimize workflow productivity and on-air reliability for the production, distribution, and management of digital media. Omneon is a pioneer in the use of advanced IT technologies and open systems for broadcast applications, producing a modular and expandable video server architecture in the Omneon Spectrum. The company's MediaGrid active storage system delivers centralized content storage that is scalable in capacity, bandwidth, and media-processing power. The company has an extensive global presence with customers in more than 50 countries on six continents. Omneon is on the Web at www.Omneon.com.

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