Harris Corporation Supplies Rainbow Network Communications With State-of-the-Art System for Intelligent, Automated Management Of
April 18 2005 - 11:00AM
PR Newswire (US)
Harris Corporation Supplies Rainbow Network Communications With
State-of-the-Art System for Intelligent, Automated Management Of
Rich Media Content Invenio(R) Asset Management Syncs With ADC(TM)
Automation and Front Porch Digital's Archive Management to Increase
Functionality, Productivity and Cost Savings in VOD Application LAS
VEGAS, April 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Harris Corporation
(NYSE:HRS) today announced the implementation of a sophisticated,
searchable, digital media archive at Rainbow Network Communications
(RNC), a multi-channel service provider and subsidiary of Rainbow
Media Holdings that provides video- on-demand (VOD) services for
channels and national networks. The solution integrates Harris'
Digital Asset Management Solution and Playout Automation Solution.
"The functionality of Harris' metadata classification is unlike
anything we envisioned," said John Barbieri, senior vice president
and general manager, Rainbow Network Communications. "It has the
flexibility to cater to our customers' individual ingesting,
cataloging and archiving schemas, and ensures Rainbow can serve a
diverse set of VOD-centric customers with exacting content
demands." The Harris Invenio(R) media asset management product
interfaces with an existing 80-seat ADC(TM) automation system and
archive system from Front Porch Digital Inc., improving RNC's
profit margins with new DTV broadcasting opportunities. RNC is
using the Harris Invenio tool suite to search, browse, catalog,
archive and control the organization's automation system, which
maintains and updates the vital metadata associated with new VOD
media files. RNC needed a sophisticated digital asset management
system to handle its immense digital media collection and the
requests culled from its client base of on-demand content
companies. RNC's clients have access to the central content
repository where they can query a play-out server about its
inventory or monitor its collections looking for new files, and
then automatically ingest new files so that they become part of
their facility's media management archives. The Harris solution
also creates hi-res on-air assets, controls Front Porch's
DIVArchive system, and manages the transcoding performed by
BitScream for Internet streaming applications. This provides
content access to multiple simultaneous users across departments
for desktop editing, browsing, and review. Additionally, RNC's
clients have the ability to customize the metadata fields that are
relevant to their business unit. The integration of RNC's
automation and asset management technology occurs on two levels:
via device control (through source, destination and review
devices), and via media movement (transferring of files between
locations, such as a central archive and an on-air playout server).
"The solution at Rainbow showcases Harris' powerful, sophisticated
digital asset management and transcoding capabilities as they're
integrated with broadcast automation," said Jim Woods, vice
president and general manager of the Automation and Digital Asset
Management Solutions business unit of Harris Broadcast
Communications Division. "The system we delivered is based on the
'ingest once, output many' model. Having to ingest content only
once into their distribution network offers enormous efficiencies
and cost savings. Being able to output via fibre to multiple
devices in multiple formats represents the upside for Rainbow's
workflow pipeline." Rainbow Network Communications (RNC) RNC is
part of Rainbow Media Holdings LLC, a leader in sports, news and
entertainment, and a subsidiary of Cablevision Systems Corporation
(NYSE:CVC). RNC provides technical services to networks including
AMC, The Independent Film Channel (IFC), FUSE, Women's
Entertainment, FOX SportsNet, as well as other sports, news and
entertainment channels. Rainbow owns and manages national networks:
AMC, Fuse, IFC and WE: Women's Entertainment, as well as on-demand
networks including Mag Rack and sportskool. Rainbow's other
businesses include its regional programming services:
MetroChannels, News 12 Networks and Rainbow Sports Networks, in
addition to the Rainbow Advertising Sales Corporation and Rainbow
Network Communications. Rainbow is also a 50- percent partner in
Fox Sports Net. Harris Broadcast Communications Division Harris
Broadcast Communications Division is one of four divisions within
Harris Corporation, an international communications equipment
company focused on providing assured communications(TM) services
for government and commercial customers in more than 150 countries.
One of the world's leading suppliers of broadcast technology,
Harris Broadcast Communications Division offers a full range of
solutions that support the digital delivery, automation and
management of audio, video and data. For more information, visit
http://www.harris.com/ . DATASOURCE: Harris Corporation CONTACT:
Martha Rapp, Harris Broadcast Communications Division,
+1-217-221-7577, or ; or K.C. Du Fay of Sterling Communications,
Inc., +1-415-392-2300, or , for Harris Web site:
http://www.harris.com/
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