AMSTERDAM, Sept. 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- (IBC2010, Stand
7.G20) — Harris Corporation (NYSE: HRS), an international
communications and information technology company, announced it is
adding significant product introductions to its NEXIO® video server
portfolio, designed to help broadcasters accelerate time-to-air,
reduce costs and streamline workflows in both playout and
production environments.
Powerful, Space-Saving Integrated Storage Server
IBC2010 marks the European debut of NEXIO Volt™, a small
form-factor, high-performance baseband video server equipped with 2
TB of RAID 3-protected integrated media storage. Offering
support for up to four mixed SD/HD or SD-only baseband channels in
a 1RU package, the high-density NEXIO Volt integrates easily into
environments where space is at a premium. It reduces power
consumption and lowers operating costs — without sacrificing
functionality or flexibility.
NEXIO Volt is ideal for applications including disaster
recovery, edge server, on-air cache, production playout and
ingest-to-archive. Built on the same technology as the
award-winning NEXIO AMP® server, NEXIO Volt offers software-enabled
license keying that allows customers to pay for only the channels
and resolutions they need, and easily upgrade to more channels or
HD at anytime. A simple software reconfiguration enables
NEXIO Volt to attach to NEXIO shared storage as system requirements
increase.
High-Performance, True Shared Storage
Harris introduced NEXIO Farad™, a high-performance online
storage system ideal for large-scale ingest, editing and playout
for production, sports, news and live-event applications.
Customers in today's production environments face escalating
storage and bandwidth requirements due to higher data rate codecs,
more channels, more concurrent editing seats, additional camera
feeds, 3 Gb/s and the overall volume of content. To address
these challenges, NEXIO Farad delivers the highest levels of
bandwidth and storage capacity to support even the most demanding
multiplatform media delivery workflows.
NEXIO Farad is designed for customers requiring more than 10,000
Mb/s bandwidth and more than 58 TB storage capacity. NEXIO
Farad makes building a storage system that meets individual needs
simple, thanks to its scale-out architecture, which allows
bandwidth and capacity to be accommodated independently of each
other. Customers can achieve the system design they need,
without compromising on performance, channel count, file-based I/O
or their preference of compression technology.
Compatibility with NEXIO AMP and Volt servers, Velocity™
editors, Apple® Final Cut Pro® and an extensive range of media
appliances are all assured for best-in-class performance. The
system is equipped with inherent RAID-601 storage protection to
maintain system performance and resilience, and provide complete
redundancy and backup without degrading system performance.
Coupled with unattended, fully automatic drive rebuilds and a
system monitoring and notifications system, NEXIO Farad represents
the state of the art for high-performance, online, true shared
storage.
Advanced Codec Support
To help streamline workflows in today's multiformat
environments, Harris introduced ingest and playout support for two
new codecs in its NEXIO platform: for playout, the H.264 video
compression standard; and for production, the popular Avid DNxHD®
"mastering" format for post-editing. Native playout support
in NEXIO AMP and Volt servers means that no transcoder is required
to handle H.264 or DNxHD; in many competing products, customers
would have to buy additional hardware to support these codecs.
Unique to NEXIO, all supported codecs can be played
back-to-back in any order with all other supported codecs.
As the new codecs are implemented in software, they are turned on
via a simple software license key.
Fast-Turnaround Production Platform
Also making its European debut is the Harris Production Playout
Center (PPC), an ingest, preparation and playout system designed to
control NEXIO server channels in fast-turnaround production
environments from scripted news, to sports arenas, to on-the-fly
live productions. From a single 1RU platform, PPC controls up
to 16 NEXIO channels, as well as up to eight routers. Onboard
media preparation tools and built-in Fast-Cue technology enable
users to get material on air in record time. PPC offers a
number of benefits over other available systems, including a
smaller form factor; access to true shared storage and on-SAN
edit-in-place; and software-only modules that allow for
cost-effective system scaling.
"Citizen Journalist" Applications
With the introduction of the Newsfish™ application, Harris is
enabling broadcasters to implement cost-cutting business models
wherever a citizen is on-site capturing the action. Newsfish
is an Apple® iPhone® "app" that allows iPhone users to capture
video and send it to designated catch servers. Newsrooms
receive fast content that is verifiable by GPS location and
call-back phone number, and is fully searchable using the Harris
Invenio® asset management system. NEXIO servers manage the
non-broadcast resolution of the iPhone material and ready it for
broadcast via Velocity editors — taking the guesswork out of
creating SD and HD broadcast content from cell phone
footage.
Harris Broadcast Communications offers products, systems and
services that provide interoperable workflow solutions for
broadcast, cable, satellite and out-of-home networks. The
Harris ONE™ solution brings together highly integrated and
cost-effective products that enable advanced media workflows for
emerging content delivery business models.
About Harris Corporation
Harris is an international communications and information
technology company serving government and commercial markets in
more than 150 countries. Headquartered in Melbourne, Florida, the company has
approximately $5 billion of annual
revenue and more than 16,000 employees — including nearly 7,000
engineers and scientists. Harris is dedicated to developing
best-in-class assured communications® products, systems, and
services. Additional information about Harris Corporation is
available at www.harris.com.
SOURCE Harris Corporation
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