Partners

www.amberfin.com

AmberFin's iCR software tools digitize, master and repurpose new and archived media content to enable viewing on any device. We understand complex file-based workflows and our unrivalled image quality strengths enable the delivery of superior looking HD and SD content at lower file sizes. Innovation and expertise is crucial and that is why we are trusted by the worlds leading content owners across genres including movies, sports, programs, news and live events. This includes Sony, NBA, Turner Broadcasting, BT, Channel 4, RTM and Warner Brothers.

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www.ardendo.com

Ardendo is a software company with focus on integrated solutions for the broadcast industry. Ardendo delivers products and services for media asset management, ingest automation, digital archives, desktop media processing and system integration. The key strength of the Ardendo approach is the modular architecture which is built to serve customer requirements for scalability, availability and customized solutions. From headquarters in Stockholm, Sweden, Ardendo supports a growing global customer base. Ardendo has several high-profile reference installations of systems for IT-based processing of digital media. The current customer base covers customers in news, general program production, playout services and post production. Ardendo founded in 1997 and became a part of Vizrt in April 2006. With the roots in academia and high-performance computing, Ardendo maintains an ?extreme competence? corporate culture.

www.s4m.arvato-systems.com

arvato Systems develops and installs the systems VPMS (Video Production Management System) and ClipJOCKEY which support Media Asset Management as well as Studio Production for TV broadcasters. ClipJOCKEY enables you to use the best features of your video server hardware and make it a real multi-channel production tool. Both systems are integrated with Harmonic’s Omneon product line through integration of their product APIs. Significant customers for one or both of the solutions include NDR, MDR, Deutsche Welle, Major League Baseball, QVC US and the University of Texas.

Aspera is the creator of next-generation transport technologies that move the world’s digital assets at maximum speed regardless of file size, transfer distance and network conditions. Based on its patent-pending fasp™ protocol, only Aspera software fully utilizes existing infrastructures to deliver the fastest, most predictable file transfer experience. Aspera’s core technology delivers unprecedented control over bandwidth, complete security and uncompromising reliability. Hollywood studios, major broadcasters, sports leagues, government agencies and Fortune 500 corporations use Aspera software for the business-critical transport of their digital assets—some of them moving in excess of one terabyte per day over their WAN infrastructure. Since the recent acquisition of Omneon’s Castify business unit by Aspera, the two companies are working closely together to deliver highly manageable, high-performance solutions for content distribution.

www.broadviewsoftware.com

BroadView offers a fully integrated application and database server that combines program acquisition, scheduling, traffic, ad management, reporting, automation management and more. BroadView is a true, three-tiered, client/server implementation that scales to any size organization and enables access from anywhere in the world using relatively low bandwidth Internet connections and corporate WAN environments. These components provide central storage, process control, reporting, and business rules management at an attractive price point.

www.crispincorp.com

Crispin Corporation is a leading provider of reliable, cost-effective broadcast automation solutions for the commercial, news playback and program recording markets. Working in conjunction with the Omneon Spectrum Media Server System and most popular news and traffic systems, Crispin offers simple or full automation solutions plus video server mirroring, asset management and a variety of automatic reporting functions.

www.dalet.com

Dalet Digital Media Systems and Omneon, Inc. have teamed up to deliver an end-to-end solution for News and MAM workflows. Dalet solutions enable broadcasters and content professionals to create, manage and distribute media for traditional and new media channels including interactive web and mobile networks. Dalet Enterprise Edition combines a Media Asset Management (MAM) platform and workflow engine to manage News, Sports, Programs, Entertainment and Archives. Purpose-built media production tools are natively integrated, optimizing access to media, collaboration and streamlining production workflows. At the core is an open and flexible MAM platform that tracks metadata from ingest to archive, ensuring media assets are indexed and searchable across the workflow. Delivered with Dalet Professional and Integration services, Dalet provides complete solutions that improve production speed, quality, and value of media assets.

Dalet systems are used around the world by thousands of content producers including major television and radio public broadcasters (ABS-CBN, BBC, CBC, DR, NBC, NPR, RTBF, RFI, Russia Today, RSR & TSR, RT Malaysia, VOA, WDR), commercial networks and operators (Antena 3, Canal+, FOX, eTV, Orange, Prime Television, ThePress Association, Time Warner, Warner Bros., XM-Sirius) and government organizations (Queensland JAG, Canadian House of Commons, The European Commission).

www.emc.com/solutions/

EMC Corporation is the world leader in products, services, and solutions for information storage and management. We help customers of all sizes manage their growing information?from the time of its creation to its archival and eventual disposal?through information lifecycle manangement, networked storage technologies, storage platforms, software, and services to help organizations better and more cost-effectively manage, protect, and share information.

www.etere.eu

Etere develops and distributes software solutions for broadcasting and media businesses. ETERE is modular software designed for TV broadcasting, does not require dedicated hardware and works on a standard PC. Etere controls Omneon video servers through their APIs and VDCP. Etere solutions run with Omneon Spectrum/MediaDeck/MediaGrid and provides users with a very powerful, scalable and reliable system. Global deployments include Ria Novosti - National Library of Russia, VTV in Vietnam, MIXTV in Brazil, tvOne in Indonesia, Telenova in Italy, Westek in the UK and ABC CBN in the Philippines.

www.filecatalyst.com

FileCatalyst™ is a software-based solution designed to accelerate and optimize file transfers across global networks. It is immune to the effects that latency and packet loss have on traditional file transfer methods like FTP, HTTP or CIFS. Using patent pending technology, FileCatalyst™ ensures efficient file transfers and eliminates file transfer bottlenecks for applications that rely on Omneon MediaGrid™ or Spectrum™ active storage systems. FileCatalyst is a product of Unlimi-Tech Software Inc.

www.florical.com

Florical develops and installs MediaFiler, ShowTimer, MediaTimer and AirBoss that automate, frame accurately, scheduled and non-scheduled ingest, timing and playout through integration of Spectrum and MediaDeck servers via VDCP. Florical also develops and installs MediaMaster, AssetDispatcher, AssetCollector and Inventory Browser that provide asset management, archiving, transcoding, transfer and proxy-generation functions through integration of Omneon Spectrum and MediaGrid through the Omneon API. Deployments with Spectrum servers include Univision, EWTN, Medcom in Panama and WPLG.

www.fpdigital.com

Front Porch Digital is the global leader in content storage management (CSM) solutions and, with the 2008 acquisition of SAMMA Systems, it is now the global leader in the migration and preservation of videotape to digital files as well. Front Porch Digital’s DIVArchive CSM solution interfaces with Omneon’s Spectrum video servers through the Omneon Player and Media APIs. DIVArchive also manages the storage of content on the Omneon Media Grid system. Omneon and Front Porch Digital share nearly 60 common customers including CBS, The Discovery Channel, EchoStar and Canada’s Shaw Media.

www.sienna-tv.com

SIENNA offers state of the art MOS-integrated news and sports workflows. It leverages QuickTime as its native file format for ingest, asset management, Final Cut Pro edit integration, automation and archiving. SIENNA is fully integrated with Omneon MediaGrid for direct ingest and edit-in-place operations and also includes unique Macintosh-based networked automation of Spectrum and MediaDeck. Together the product suite combined with Omneon active storage systems creates the perfect synergy for an end-to-end digital media workflow.

www.broadcast.harris.com

The collaboration between Omneon and HARRIS Automation - formerly Louth Automation - began in 1999, and continues with the development of improved interfaces for the transmission marketplace. Omneon has adopted the widely used video disc control protocol (VDCP), strengthening the interface capabilities of both companies and underlining Omneon's commitment to preserving (and enhancing) their customers' legacy systems. Harris Automation now supports Omneon?s widely adopted Player API for Ethernet control on both their ADC 100 and next generation automation system (HRS). Omneon's file system simplifies the operation of Harris' media management function, and provides a powerful platform for interfacing with Harris automation systems. Omneon also has a proven solution with the Harris GMT product used in conjunction with archive managers (namely OTG) during the past two NAB conventions. Encoda Systems was acquired by Harris in late 2004. Encoda offers a full range of master control, ingest automation, asset management, remote automation and network monitoring systems that meet the engineering needs of TV and radio broadcasters, cable networks, cable operations and satellite operations. The DAL product family can be scaled from single station/channel operations up to 1,000 channel, centralized operations. Its systems allow broadcasters to support a wide range of operational models, whether everything is controlled from one location or multiple locations.

www.ibis.tv

IBIS develops and installs Media Asset Management systems to deliver solutions for integrated media management for fast turnaround production workflows; MOS News playout and content preservation. All IBIS applications are integrated with the range of Omneon storage and production devices using the Omneon API. iFind has installations of varying complexity and number of users with MediaGrid, MediaDeck and Spectrum around the world including ESPN Star Sports, SSVC, KRCR, MegaChannel, BBC Persian, BBC Arabic, WBOC, Turkmenistan TV and The Irish Parliament.

www.ibm.com

IBM Digital Media Center is a combination of an IBM digital video storage system based on storage area network (SAN) technology and industry-leading broadcast components for ingest, news production, and playout. The storage solution allows broadcasters to escape from their traditional reliance on videotape as the shared video storage medium of choice. The shared IBM digital storage model increases broadcast workflow efficiency by eliminating unneeded, costly, and time-consuming media copying. The modularity of the Omneon architecture is complimentary to the IBM Digital Media Center approach, allowing broadcasters flexibility in video formats and transmission standards.

www.igroup-media.com

iGroup is an innovative company offering solutions for broadcasting and media sectors. iGroup iXferus MAM is a software complex designed to automate broadcasting, archiving and management of media data. iXferus MAM has a high-capacity archive with an advanced intellectual search system and a network editing feature, a powerful innovative planning system, and a lot of other different functions supporting the activities of modern television channels. iXferus MAM can manage several independent television channels simultaneously. This module-based system can easily and very quickly be integrated into any production structure with varied equipment.

www.ipv.com

IPV is the driving force behind the world's most advanced solutions for video browsing over standard IT networks in a multi-user desktop environment. SpectreView is used for news, asset management, sub-titling, automation and wherever broadcast professionals need exact and frame-accurate access to manage and manipulate content. IPV?s XCode engine delivers faster than realtime transcoding to WM9 and MPEG4 complete with multiple audio channels and resolutions, the combination of Omneon active storage systems and IPV has been selected by major broadcasters to increase the efficiency of their browse-based workflows.

www.konantech.com

Konan Digital is a leading provider of dedicated and focused Media Asset Management (MAM) technologies in the world today. Our products represent the next generation of MAM technologies and are designed to be lightweight, platform agnostic and standards based. KONAN DigitalArc is comprised of a series of interoperable components that seamlessly integrate to form a fully file-based enterprise environment or independent components open to integration into existing systems. Konan has distinguished itself as a thought leader in the digital media sector and proudly holds numerous technology patents including an MPEG-7 International Standard. The company's headquarter, Konan Technology Inc., is based in Seoul, Korea and the US subsidiary, Konan Digital Inc., was launched in California early 2005. For more information, visit www.konandigital.com.

www.marquisbroadcast.com

Marquis Broadcast offers specialist services to the television broadcast industry including project management, workflow development, systems and engineering design, operations training and custom software development. The Marquis Broadcast partnership with Omneon Video Networks provides software integration between third party non-linear editing systems, and the Omneon Spectrum media server.

www.masstechgroup.com

MassTech Group, Inc. is a developer of software and embedded hardware centered on a powerful core database. MassTech products enable management, conversion, distribution, and sharing of digital content across IT storage and networking infrastructures.

www.mediabroacast-t.com

Media & Broadcast Technologies (MBT) is specialized in Broadcast solutions integration and software developments. MBT designs solutions with modular softwares, for all broadcasting needs: from premium channel to local or thematic television. MBT software suites are designed thought to fit in comprehensive and innovative broadcast workflows. They offer a transverse management of supports and media: automation, ingest and transfer (Phoenix); graphic asset management (Liberty); media asset management (Sphere); traffic system (Paradise).

www.mediaitpro.com

Since 1999 Media IT Profy has been developing modular software for the integration and building of IT solutions. The company has extensive experience in deploying a wide range of production solutions at more than 400 TV stations. Media IT Profy's modular software structure allows it to adapt solutions to individual customer requirements. The open architecture ensures seamless integration with incumbent applications and systems, allowing customers to streamline and extend the existing IT infrastructure. Media IT Profy closely cooperates with Omneon in development of the VPA broadcast automation system running on Omneon Spectrum and MediaDeck media servers.

www.nesbit.com

The Nesbit Media Library System (MLS) is an easy to use and powerful media archival and tracking system. WebMLS allows searching of your MLS database from the web. Preview+ adds video proxy files to the information managed by Media Library System. Preview+ is affordable and the proxy files provide frame-accurate representation of the digital content, so you can log, browse and select clips all from the MLS portal. Dub Order facilitates your dubbing administration and order processes. MLS is integrated to Omneon ProBrowse, and many other systems.

www.nverzion.com

NVERZION provides the full range of digital media tools to allow broadcast stations to efficiently acquire, prepare, manage, transmit and report crucial data and programs. In partnership with Omneon, the Ncontrol? automation application interfaces to a station's existing hardware for a facility-wide solution. The Ncontrol product is scalable and upgradeable to NVERZION's archiving and asset management products.

www.omnibus.tv

OmniBus Systems provides broadcasting, cable and satellite companies with comprehensive automation and media asset management solutions that address every area of television-related operations. Its newsroom, content and workflow automation solutions include acquisition and recording of rich media material, low-resolution editing, media asset management, and playout and transmission. OmniBus is a global company with headquarters in the UK and offices in the United States, Germany and Singapore.

www.pebble.tv

Pebble Beach Systems’ range of scalable automation and content management solutions is designed to manage acquisition,file-based workflows, archiving and multichannel playout for TV broadcasters, cable and satellite operators. In addition to the versatile and proven Neptune, Neptune Lite and Deckchair, the range features the enterprise-level Marina, designed to cater for all channel types and language variants. Pebble Beach Systems’ products integrate tightly with Omneon servers using the highly-robust VDCP protocol and Media API. Joint deployments include Fox News USA, MBC Dubai and Phoenix Television Hong Kong.

www.pharos-comms.com

Pharos delivers solutions for better workflow management to broadcasters and service providers in television, radio, IPTV and telecommunications. For 10 years Pharos has continually developed the unique mediator, playtime and pilot desktop broadcast management solutions. Pharos solutions offer a next-generation platform to better manage media workflow for rapid expansion in playout, presentation and publishing. Using Pharos software architecture and integration services, broadcasters and transmission service providers can now integrate previously disparate broadcast and IT technology systems and processes under one unified enterprise. Pharos systems can accommodate many third party technology choices for library management, ingest, storage technology, media formats, transcoding, creative services and playout. Pharos is an open company embracing open standards, we are proud of our people and of our unique development philosophy. Potential clients are welcome to inspect our development methods and fully evaluate the Pharos software platform and its unique distributed systems architecture.

www.pictron.com

Pictron Incorporated is a leading provider of interactive media solutions making video searchable and interactive on the Internet. Pictron Media Gateway Suite Broadcast Edition automatically monitors Omneon media servers to create low-resolution video proxies. The Media Gateway also uses advanced artificial intelligence technology to automatically segment and index video into meaningful clips based on visual scene changes, speech recognition, and human face recognition. With a standard Web browser interface, Pictron Media Gateway Server uses the video metadata index extracted through Video Gateway to enable Internet and Intranet users to search video based on speech, text, visual content, face ID, and broadcast automation and traffic system information. Pictron software is integrated with Omneon media servers at the US Department of Health and Human Services, Turner Studio, KCPT, KNPB, KENW, KLRU, and KLVX.

www.pro-bel.com

Working with the Omneon Spectrum media server, Pro-Bel offers proven play-to-air automation applications designed for single through to multi-channel operations. Pro?Bel's scalable solution address every area of transmission, from content ingest, storage and playout, to interfacing with back-office business systems.

www.quantum.com/am/default.htm

Quantum, a global leader in storage, delivers highly reliable backup, recovery and archive solutions that meet demanding requirements for data integrity and availability with superior price/performance and comprehensive service and support. Quantum offers customers of all sizes an unparalleled range of solutions, from leading tape drive and media technologies, autoloaders and libraries to disk-based backup systems. Quantum is the world's largest volume supplier of both tape drives and tape automation and has pioneered the development of disk-based systems optimized for backup and recovery.

www.rascular.com

Rascular has developed a range of user-focused software infrastructure products for broadcast TV facilities. The range includes device control, data delivery and media management systems to address broadcast TV facility workflow requirements. Rasculars Helm is a user-customizable control and monitoring system for broadcast devices. Helm is Windows-based and uses simple drag and drop to build panels that monitor and control infrastructure devices using either point and click or touch screen operation. The implementation of the Omneon driver means that a number of end user applications for single and multi-channels can be addressed using this powerful tool.

www.sgluk.com

Software Generation, Ltd. produces advanced, easy to use archive software for the broadcast and other industries. SGL is a privately held software company headquartered in Southampton, England. SGL has been in business since 1989 and its flagship FlashNet product is installed in over 4,000 customer sites around the world.

www.sgt.eu

SGT is technology leader in workflow automation and offers the most comprehensive product line in the Broadcast and Media industries. SGT's VEDA" software suite manages video content and automates the media-related workflows of media companies and broadcasters. VEDA" comes with superior features, such as its unrivalled semantic search engine and the new VEDA" Automation. VEDA" is a seamless and modular end-to-end suite, based on a Service-Oriented Architecture. Customers just pick and place SGT's software components according to their own workflow. These components can be integrated easily into each client's environment.

http://www.si-media.tv/

Si-Media is a private company with just over 20 years experience with designing and deploying TV Broadcast systems in Italy where they hold 90 % market share in the medium to large broadcaster sector. The products of SI Media are also used by many customer worldwide.

Today, SI Media is one of the leading providers with decades of experience in the development and deployment of Traffic, Playout Automation, CG, Media Asset Management and NewsRoom solutions for TV Broadcasters.

The SI Traffic, Automation, MAM and Newsroom systems are available for deployment either as stand-alone solutions, or integrated in a harmonic and homogeneous workflow. SI Media solutions easily interface popular archiving systems, video servers, CGs, Subtitle inserters as well as other traffic and automation systems.

www.smartjog.com

SmartJog, the global leader in fast and secure delivery of entertainment media, provides fully managed end-to-end digital solutions designed to accelerate and optimize file-based workflows. SmartTools© integrated applications make master material ready-to-air with the use of Omneon API in order to directly ingest into the Omneon range of products. Over 200 broadcasters among 1000 networked customers in 65 countries, use SmartTools© daily to optimize their file-based operations.

www.snellwilcox.com

For HD MPEG ingest, the Omneon Spectrum media server solution integrates seamlessly with the Memphis encoder from Snell & Wilcox. Both companies have embraced a common implementation of various SMPTE specifications to enable tight integration between products. Common support of the SMPTE 328M standard puts a timecode stamp on every video frame so that timecode remains frame-accurate even when jogging through content. Common support of SMPTE 302M provides proper mapping of PCM and Dolby E to maintain audio phase and support eight channels on a single PID, critical issues for surround sound applications.

www.solidstatelogic.com

Solid State Logic has introduced a new video production editing and asset management system called Gravity. It features a picon based - format independant, cataloging, indexing, editing, and playout system with features of local or remote encoding, transcoding, database management and more. All functions within Gravity are render-free and because of its transparent technology- it speeds your workflow.

www.sony.com

Sony is dedicated to providing customers with the most advanced audio and video equipment and systems for the broadcast, production, business, industrial, government, medical and education markets. Sony also provides support for XDCAM and HDCAM formats. Sony provides specialized equipment and systems for data recording, duplication, electronic photography/publishing, videoconferencing, high-definition video, interactive and security applications. Sony products and systems offer leading-edge digital video technology in acquisition, recording, production, storage, display and projection.

www.suitcasetv.com

Suitcase TV develops integrated solutions from broadcast compliance, monitoring software, storage facilities to media asset management. Suitcase TV delivers products and services for media asset management, ingest automation, digital archives, desktop media processing and system integration. Suitcase TV’s Aqua product range interfaces with Omneon media server products via FTP, file share and API.

www.sundancedigital.com

Sundance Digital is a leading provider of broadcast automation solutions. Our Titan? and FastBreak? systems manage the on-air operations of commercial and public television stations, cable services, and corporate media facilities throughout the Americas and internationally. Sundance NewsLink? integrates a rapidly growing number of major market digital newsrooms. Sundance automation was integral to the first U.S. installation of Omneon at WWSB in Sarasota, Florida. Since then, our companies have successfully partnered with group owners, such as Granite, Morgan Murphy and Raycom Media, as well as on numerous PBS station projects, including KLCS, KLRN, KOCE, KTCA and WNED. Since its founding in 1994, Sundance Digital has enjoyed significant growth and a reputation for innovative, high quality software. The company?s highly regarded technical and engineering teams have earned Sundance industry-wide recognition for customer satisfaction and support.

www.sunup.com

SunUp Digital Systems and Omneon Video Networks have teamed up to deliver a reliable and scaleable end-to-end solution for content management and scheduled and demand-based distribution for delivery in single and multi-channel environments for the Broadcast, Cable and Satellite markets. SunUp Digital System?s principal product is the SunUp Traffic and Control System (TCS), a cost-effective and flexible solution that, as an operating system and automating resource, provides single-channel and multi-channel broadcasters with total and integrated control of plant resource scheduling, contract/content and compression management. Robust and scalable, TCS software is a standards-based solution fully compatible with all leading content delivery systems. Together, SunUp Digital Systems and Omneon offer broadcasters a modular, scalable architecture that adapts to any existing environment. Facilities can grow from a single channel to a large multi-channel system with ease.

www.tmd.tv

TMD are one of the leading suppliers of real-world Media Asset and Workflow management solutions to organizations and departments whose business is based on media content. This includes broadcasters, media owners, distributors and archive operations. The Mediaflex TM application suite provides a solution that enables the transition from physical linear based media content to the evolving world of digital file based content, managing both aspects in a coherent and consistent manner. Mediaflex TM is supplied as a suite of modules allowing organisations to implement the solution in a phased approach. Mediaflex allows those people working with media to track, catalog and browse the content irrespective of the format. Digital Video formats currently supported include SD and HD, MPEG2, MPEG 1, Quicktime and WM9.

www.vcisolutions.com

VCI delivers value-driven smart media revenue solutions to the broadcast and cable industry. VCI?s revolutionary and unrivaled new business platform, Xe, helps customers optimize and streamline the content lifecycle workflow. VCI Automation developed this architecture to address workflow complexities and provide improved resource management. With over 22 years experience and more than 450 customers world-wide, VCI has become a trusted and reliable business systems partner. VCI products and services help customers improve the management of all key functions to maximize revenue, streamline operations and facilitate future revenue stream expansion.

Vivesta delivers comprehensive workflow-based media management, traffic and scheduling and automation solutions for TV, VOD, IPTV and mobile TV services. The flagship product, MediaFlow, is a reliable and scalable solution providing customers with complete media management, content library management, rights management, scheduling and control from ingest to broadcast, and on-demand services via one integrated workflow. Within MediaFlow, multiple organizations can collaborate to manage their content and upload it ready for use in cross-media publishing on different platforms. MediaFlow also offers full broadcast device control and automation, and our integration with Omneon maximizes efficiency for a dynamic, sophisticated and very cost-effective workflow.