Omneon Supports New Tapeless Facility At Bayerischer Rundfunk

"Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR) has deployed an Omneon Spectrum media server system to support tapeless operations in a new state-of the-art facility in Munich.

Within the new BR facility, the Spectrum servers support retrieval of material from the archive, nonlinear editing, studio production, and on-air playout. The new workflow at BR begins with the ingest of material into the Omneon server systems, and later into a Front Porch Digital DIVArchive system through Harris iMedia. Integration of the facility’s 64 Avid editors and six Avid Unity systems with the Omneon servers via Marquis Medway brings the servers and editing stations into a unified working environment.

The BR production server system consists of three Omneon modules, each featuring 24 to 31 channels of MXF-wrapped MPEG IMX 50-Mbit video and 600 hours of storage. The Omneon Spectrum system’s native MXF implementation was another reason BR selected the platform. MXF streamlines direct transfer of files over the broadcaster’s IT infrastructure, allowing BR to avoid multiple stages of compression and decompression so that interchange is more straightforward. BR was one of the first German broadcasters to apply MXF as its house standard."

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