ACCELERATING CONCURRENT
WORKLOADS FOR ESCALATING
MEDIA BROADCAST AND
PRODUCTION DEMANDS
WORKLOADS FOR ESCALATING
MEDIA BROADCAST AND
PRODUCTION DEMANDS
CZECH TELEVISION
“The best product is the one you forget about because it simply works—and that’s DDN.”
–Jaroslav Sladek, Video Department Chief for Czech Television
As the public television broadcaster in the Czech Republic, Czech Television delivers six channels of news, sports, family, arts, and educational content. The organization produces more than two-thirds of its programming using state-of-the-art television production technologies and services, including ultra-high-definition (UHD) formats. In addition, Czech TV is a leader in hybrid viewing, with more than 87,000 hours of recordings archived for on-demand distribution to smart phones and hybrid TVs.
Read their success story to learn how Czech TV partnered with DDN to address their challenges with an updated, shared storage system with reliable, robust performance to accelerate collaborative, concurrent workloads.
CHALLENGE
A system that could manage the explosion of digital video content and data-intensive demands of 4K uncompressed DPX workflows, while guaranteeing flawless real-time workflows of concurrent UHD video streams—across ingest, editing, transcoding, distributing, and archiving.
- Surge of digital video content and high-end video equipment spurred the need for fast, scalable, robust, and reliable storage
- Simultaneous support for data-intensive color correction and film restoration services required on-demand scale-out and scale-up performance
- Simple, seamless storage to keep pace with modern media workflows and concurrent client workloads
SOLUTION
DDN’s MEDIAScaler® parallel file system serves as an all-in-one, high-performance storage appliance. It provides fast, efficient support for around-the-clock operations and has the ability to scale to capacity. Performance on-demand keeps pace with a wide variety of media workflows.
BENEFITS
Czech TV now has the ability to add workflows on demand and keep pace with growing broadcast and production needs.
- Production teams readily manage multiple, high-end 4K workflows without bottlenecks
- Integrated platform enables use of a single system for data ingest, color correction, film restoration, transcoding, and finalizing media files
- A low TCO from escaping legacy SAN FC-based technologies
- Up to five workstations doing real-time 4K DPX can work concurrently with no performance hit
- Seamless integration of storage with Diamant, Baselight, Bone, Clipster, Avid DS, and other critical media applications
- The ability to accelerate multiple data access applications on the same centrally stored files without need for copying or serial locking
- The ability to integrate new clients on demand helps avoid any rigidity
- OpenFlow support ensures fast, flexible path to open networking in the future
