Vietnam TV Builds Digital Archive on Harmonic

Harmonic Inc. announced that its Omneon MediaDeck media server system
and Omneon MediaGrid active storage system are being integrated into a new
digital archive at Vietnam TV (VTV), the national broadcaster of Vietnam.

The
project, combined with workflow and media management software from Etere,
represents the implementation of the first file-based media management
system in Vietnam.

"We deployed Harmonic media server and storage systems
within our new archive system because they offer an open and highly scalable
architecture with a proven track record in worldwide deployment," said Dr.
Ngo Thai Tri, general director of VTV
IT & Measurement Center. "The Harmonic systems also
give us the flexibility to build our entire network on an Ethernet
infrastructure, which in turn will simplify both scaling and management of our
digital archive in the future."

The only nationwide TV broadcaster in Vietnam, VTV is
among the country’s leading news and mass communication organizations. The
broadcaster provides Vietnamese viewers across the country and overseas with
scientific, educational, and entertainment programming on nine channels.

As VTV transitions from tape-based operations to file-based
operations, Etere media management and workflow solutions are facilitating the
digitization and migration of VTV assets into the new digital archive. Etere
MAM will control ingest and preview functions on the Omneon MediaDeck systems,
using the Omneon MediaGrid as the main disk archive and a Sony PetaSite with
LTO-5 tapes as deep archive.

The Omneon MediaDeck system at VTV is configured to provide
3 TB of storage capacity, with two ingest and two preview ports, each using an
IMX30 codec with MXF-OP1A wrapper. The Omneon MediaGrid system supplies 120 TB
of storage capacity, which supports up to 7,480 hours of IMX30 video. These
Harmonic products are designed for reliability and media availability, as
well as scalable bandwidth and storage capacity. The system ensures that VTV
operators can search, preview, and retrieve any media they want while
working at the desktop.

"As media companies worldwide migrate their tape-based
content into digital file-based media archives, it is critical that the
underlying infrastructure be scalable and flexible, providing the highest
levels of access to content," said Geoff Stedman, senior vice president
for corporate marketing at Harmonic. "At VTV, deployment of Harmonic media
server and storage systems enabled their move to file-based workflows to
facilitate fast, convenient access to the broadcaster’s growing archive of
digital assets."