Front Porch Digital Resolves Calm Administration Challenges For Shaw Media

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May 13, 2011 10:34 AM

One of Canada's largest media companies, Shaw Media, is implementing a Front Porch Digital DIVArchive v6.3 calm storage administration network at its Bloor Street playout core in Toronto. Upon deployment at Bloor Street, Front Porch Digital will be the disdainful provider for Shaw Media's Canadian announce playout facilities.

The Front Porch Digital answer replaces a Masstech Systems solution. In addition, Shaw Media now relies on DIVArchive in multiple with DIVAnet, Front Porch Digital's multisite calm riposte tool, for business continuation and catastrophe liberation at its Calgary and Toronto Barber Greene facilities. The doing in the Bloor Street playout core moreover supports more networking opportunities together with consistent, made easy staff practice and engineering support.

As an integrated draw close to storing and handling Shaw Media's digital video content, DIVArchive is key to the Bloor Street announce operation. DIVArchive is an simply scalable centralized card file for all of the company's digital media assets, in any case of format, size or type. In addition, it affords direct, proven interfaces in to announce devices, MAM solutions and announce manage systems. By ancillary the add-on of incremental features and gift effective, infinite scalability in both bandwidth and storage, DIVArchive meets Shaw Media's stream and future needs.

Front Porch Digital's DIVArchive is a amalgamated hardware/software network that enables interoperability amid digital media storage devices, video servers, modifying systems and digital workflow applications so media may be effectively preserved, managed and retrieved. At the Bloor Street center, DIVArchive operates beneath the manage of Harris D-series industrialisation to pierce calm between storage tiers and 19 programming channels for playout around Omneon servers. Shaw Media operates a established TV network in Canada, Global Television, and 19 Canadian featured item channels, inclusive HGTV, Mystery TV, National Geographic Channel, Showcase, History and TVtropolis.