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www.inbroadcast.com | CABSAT InShow Guide | 8 - 10 March 2016

SGL Unveils New FlashNet
Features at CABSAT 2016
By Lee Sheppard,
Director of Product Management

FlashNet's newest features provide greater flexibility...

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t CABSAT 2016, SGL is highlighting
new FlashNet features that provide
broadcasters and content owners with
greater flexibility when managing their
archives. Using FlashNet, SGL's flagship
content storage management system,
customers are now able to allocate a
pre-defined number of drives, within
their library, for a specific role, such as
archiving Avid jobs only, or restoring/
archiving material at a certain time of
day. This allows larger broadcasters
with multiple drives to further improve
operational procedures.
Throughout the show SGL personnel
will explain the latest version of
FlashNet archive control, which
provides support for Avid Web Services
and Sony Optical Disc Archive (ODA).
Whilst the fully implemented Avid
Interplay Archive provides a seamless
user experience, smaller work groups

may require a pared-down version.
SGL's support for Avid Web Services
means that customers can use the
archive capabilities that they currently
require, but can deploy Avid Integrated
Archive at any time in the future,
without the need to re-archive any
content. SGL's integration with Sony
ODA opens up a world of workflow
possibilities, from disaster recovery
solutions to management of archive
material over disparate geographic
areas. With SGL's experience of
managing multiple storage devices
within production, news and sport,
Sony's Optical Disc Archive can sit
anywhere within a workflow, not
simply as an 'end-of-process' archive.
Disaster recovery workflows are
a major requirement for media
companies, and at CABSAT, SGL will
be highlighting to customers that

regardless of the scope of their
DR requirements, FlashNet's
uniquely scalable architecture
means that valuable assets are
protected, automatically.
The cloud is also becoming
part of the storage hierarchy,
which SGL is integrating
into its strategy. FlashNet
is now fully integrated with
Aspera, allowing broadcasters and
content owners to transfer media
to the cloud at a guaranteed speed,
providing alternative storage and DR
workflows. SGL will be making further
announcements
regarding
cloud
support at NAB 2016.
At CABSAT, SGL is also announcing
its support for LTO-7. LTO-7
specifications support tape cartridge
native storage capacity of over 6 TB,
more than twice the compressed
capacity of the previous generation,
and tape drive data transfer rates
also double those of LTO-6. As with
previous generations, LTO-7 drives
will provide backward compatibility

FlashNet is designed to grow
as business needs develop

with the ability to read and write LTO
generation 6 cartridges and read LTO
generation 5 cartridges, helping to
preserve media investments and ease
implementation.
SGL has partnered with broadcasters
and Systems Integrators in the Middle
East for many years, and is now an
established brand/company in the
region. SGL FlashNet is installed
and is delivering efficient broadcast
archives to the leading broadcasters
throughout the Middle East including:
AD Media; MBC; Qatar TV; Al
Baghdadia; Al Aan; Al Kass, and many
others.
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