In Broadcast - November 2017 - 60

www.inbroadcast.com | Vol: 7 - Issue 11 | November 2017

InMedia

EndemolShine Australia
Deploys DDP
T

he creator of some of Australia's
largest
television
shows
EndemolShine Australia uses a DDP
solution to augment its storage
requirements.
Back in 2013, EndemolShine
Australia started looking at DDP as a
solution to augment its existing Avid
ISIS storage investment. Not a decision
to be taken lightly, in 2015, the
company took delivery of DPP's twochassis system and had production
work rolling off it less than two weeks
later. Over 30 editing, audio and
graphics stations all connect to the
DDP across the existing infrastructure.
The primary factors in EndemolShine
Australia's decision were: bulk shared
storage at a competitive price;
seamless use from our Avid Media
Composer platform (including the
ability to use alongside ISIS); simple
bolt-on JBOD expansion; simple
infrastructure requirements; and
compatibility with other applications.
EndemolShine Australia's uses a DDP

solution for high-res media storage
and playback, mastering directly from
the shared volumes. A real-workhorse
with minimal management - it can
handle multiple productions with
appropriate security, all workspaces
across a production can share
capacity without having to constantly
re-allocate (or can be set on a fixed
quota), and Archiware P5 integrates
directly to ensure volumes are always
backed up externally for security.
A spokesperson for EndemolShine
Australia said: "We've had the DDP in
use 24x7 since the day it went in, never
had a hardware failure and it has gone
12 months+ without even a reboot.
Client software just works - appears
as native Avid storage simultaneous
with ISIS workspaces, performs well
with Resolve and Adobe CC and doesn't
need complex driver or networking
setups. With 120TB of DDP capacity
that constantly gets filled and flushed,
it is a robust system that meets our
ever-changing requirements. ESA

are looking to move up to the DDP
v4/5 software release to add more
functionality/performance to our
existing investment."
Elvin Jasarevic, Director of DDP Asia
& Middle East, said: "We are incredibly
happy that EndemolShine is using DDP
shared storage to produce some of the
most popular content for television
in Australia. Success like this makes
us more committed than ever to
developing our software even further.
"With DDP V4 and the upcoming V5

software, which allows SSD caching,
Load Balancing, Instant Replication
and other "DDP only" features like
'Folder Volumes with Quota' and
Workflow Manager, our aim is to give
clients like EndemolShine the edge,
while making their jobs easier," added
Jasarevic.
EndemolShine Australia creates
many
well-known
television
programmes, such as The Biggest
Loser, Gogglebox, and Australian Ninja
Warrior.

EndemolShine
Australia

Mediaproxy Broadcast Successes
M

ediaproxy recently announced
two wins for its broadcast and
monitoring solutions.
New York sports broadcaster SNY has
chosen LogServer software solution for
compliance logging and monitoring,
and Africa's Econet Media has chosen
its unified broadcast compliance,
monitoring and analysis solution for
Kwesé TV.
SNY is New York's premium sports
broadcaster and television home of the
New York Mets, Jets and UConn Men's
and Women's basketball programmes.
Available in New York, New Jersey,
Pennsylvania, and Connecticut via
Comcast and Cox Cable, SNY delivers
the most comprehensive access to ALL
of the Tri-State area's professional and
collegiate sports teams through daily
sports and entertainment programmes,
plus a programming roster that
includes classic sports programming,
critically
acclaimed
original
entertainment shows and exclusive
interview and magazine programmes.
The network's live game broadcasts

monitor and analyse Kwesé TV's
of the Mets and UConn Huskies
satellite downlinks.
are also available via its website
Econet Media, a subsidiary
sny.tv and the NBC Sports App
of the Econet Group developed
for mobile devices and smart
Kwesé as a new satellite
televisions.
LogServer is Mediaproxy's
television brand and service
software
based
broadcast
catering to the African market.
and IP monitoring solution
Kwesé TV offers viewers
for real-time monitoring and
access to premium sports and
compliance reporting. With
entertainment
programming
LogServer, SNY is managing
including exclusive and firstregulatory requirements as
to-market third party channels
well as closed caption and
such as Revolt and Viceland, as
loudness compliance across its
well as leading sports content
broadcasts.
including NBA and ESPN.
Econet Media has chosen its
The Kwesé portfolio of
unified broadcast compliance,
services also includes a freeMediaproxy offers solutions for broadcast monitoring to-air channel - Kwesé Free
monitoring and analysis solution
for Kwesé TV. As the world's largest headquarters in Johannesburg, South Sports - which sits under Kwesé's Free
scale HEVC via satellite deployment to Africa along with a second system Bouquet that has at least five channels
date, Mediaproxy software is enabling in Sardinia, Italy providing high available free of charge.
Kwesé TV to ensure delivery of its availability and full redundancy.
The recently launched Kwesé
premium pay-TV service to consumers
Mediaproxy LogServer decodes and Play which is an IPTV box that gives
in Ghana, Rwanda, Zambia, and Kenya.
captures over 67 HEVC streams in them access to a three month free
The Mediaproxy solution comprising HD and SD, which are then relayed subscription to Netflix through a one
of LogServer, TSAnalyzer, and Monwall to the Monwall client for real-time of its kind partnership and 100 free
has been deployed at Econet's monitoring. TSAnalyzer is used to streaming channels.

http://www.inbroadcast.com https://www.ddpsan.com/ https://www.mediaproxy.com/ http://www.sny.tv

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of In Broadcast - November 2017