In Broadcast - May 2012 - 4

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Wohler Acquires RadiantGrid
Wohler Technologies has acquired RadiantGrid Technologies, a developer of transcoding, transformation, and new media automation service platforms. The RadiantGrid software platform boasts built-in intelligence that automates the entire workflow for managing ﬁle-based ingest, preparation, and distribution of digital media content. President and CEO of Wohler Technologies Carl J Dempsey said: “Our customers are increasingly making the move to more IT-centric infrastructures and looking to ﬁle-based solutions as a way to realize increased efﬁciency and proﬁtability. We have assembled engineering talent to develop our own file-based solutions, and the strategic acquisition of RadiantGrid – and the company’s RadiantGrid dashboard exceptional and Chief Software Architect of technology and talent - expands RadiantGrid Technologies. “We’re and accelerates that program.” proud to be a part of the Wohler Dempsey added that Wohler Technologies family, and we expected to “move quickly into look forward to ﬁnding creative exciting new areas and to roll out integration points with Wohler’s innovative solutions” including strength in managing audio, video, providing fully integrated solutions and data.” for managing content from ingest The acquisition will enable the to delivery. two companies to streamline IT“This is the centric workﬂows with a full range of most important video, audio, data, and QC solutions moment in the history that support broadcasters’ rapidly of RadiantGrid, said evolving needs. Kirk Marple, President

TRT Archive Install Tedial System
TUR: Ankara-based TRT, Turkey’s national broadcaster, has installed a Tedial archive system. Tedial software replaces an existing archive with a fully file-based solution. Systems integrator Datateknik worked closely with Tedial to design the ﬁle-based system and workﬂows for a staged decommissioning of the broadcaster’s old MAM system. As part of the project some 100,000 hours of tape-based material will be digitised. Integrating with third-party technology, the solution allows TRT to implement workﬂows that span the existing systems.

Queen’s Award For Square Box
GBR: Square Box Systems has won a Queen’s Award for Enterprise in the Innovation Category for its CatDV media asset management and workﬂow tool. CatDV provides the tools to log, store, catalogue, search and quickly retrieve media assets. Data from multimedia ﬁles can be stored, with thumbnail images and annotations, along with reduced resolution proxy clips for use off-line. CatDV has been recognised with broadcast industry awards including two Creative COW Blue Ribbons.

Visual Unity Africa Opens In Nairobi
4 Visual Unity has entered into a joint venture with Telemedia Africa to establish Visual Unity Africa. Visual Unity Africa is headed by partners Baiju Shah, Ali Hussein and Ken Kariuki. Hussein and Kariuki will be permanently based at Visual Unity Africa’s Nairobi ofﬁces. Tomas Petru, Managing Director of Visual Unity, said: “In terms of broadcast and content delivery, Africa is an area that is ripe for expansion and there have already been signiﬁcant changes with a proliferation of new TV stations coming on line to quench demand for local content. “However, one thing the market lacks are specialist systems integration and professional services organisations that can

NTP At AES EXPO
BRA: NTP Technology promoted its range of high-quality routing systems and AD/DA interfaces at AES Expo in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The Penta 725 IP compact audio router allows routing of high quality audio over lowcost Gigabit Ethernet IP lines. Its DAD AX24 192 PHD is an eight-channel highquality AD/DA audio converter. It is designed for high quality music recording as well as mastering and monitoring.

The Visual Unity Africa Team: Ken Kariuki, Baiju Shah, Ali Hussein

assist broadcasters with their equipment choices.” Petru said that Visual Unity Africa is “ideally placed to bridge this gap by providing high quality services and products to the emerging triple market”. The company, based in Nairobi,

Kenya, will offer system integration and professional services to the local broadcast, IT and telecommunications industries. Along with specialist R&D capabilities to develop innovative mobile applications.

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