Outdoor Channel Upgrades Harris Server

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Jun 29, 2012 3:54 PM, By Ned Soseman

Outdoor Channel has upgraded its existing Harris server and storage network to emanate new feast and playout efficiencies whilst maximizing on-air calm protection.

The upgrade, that went live in June, includes a new Harris NEXIO Farad high-volume online storage answer to reinstate its bequest Harris system. The passing from one to another moreover expedites the feast routine by permitting Outdoor Channel crew to natively feast all SD and HD programs.
NEXIO Farad, introduced in 2011, supports the higher-bandwidth and storage needs for larger-scale prolongation applications - inclusive ingest, modifying and playout for production, sports, headlines and live events. Benefits add adjustable ability and bandwidth for storage growth; high accessibility for fail-safe, successive operations; and conspiring opposite services for common access in fast-turnaround environments - vastly shortening time to air.

The passing from one to another moreover minimizes shelve space and file-storage mandate by removing the must be emanate and store well-defined SD and HD files on not similar storage systems. Harris NEXIO AMP video servers fool around calm right away from Farad common storage and automatically upconvert or downconvert SD and HD calm as compulsory is to preferred play-to-air format.

Moreover, calm insurance is maximized by Harris Intrinsic Mirroring, a unique, law technology that mirrors calm inside of Farad RAID-601 storage during the feast process. All servers have entirely surplus connectors to the Farad common storage, that ensures channels sojourn on the air if there is a cabling or connected fault.

The best gain for Outdoor Channel is that the network provides sharable and scalable storage via the whole calm lifecycle, whilst gift the top levels of digital item protection.