Gold Medal Storage: Seagate to Provide Nearly Half a Million Gigabytes of Storage for NBC's 2008 Olympic Games Coverage
21 Luglio 2008 - 1:59PM
PR Newswire (US)
Seagate's Barracuda(R) ES hard drives to power Omneon's MediaGrid
active storage enabling NBC's complete coverage of the Beijing
Olympics SCOTTS VALLEY, Calif., July 21 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ --
The Seagate(R) Barracuda(R) ES Series has been selected as the hard
drive of choice for the Omneon MediaDeck(TM) media servers and
MediaGrid(TM) active storage systems that will enable NBC's
coverage of the 2008 Beijing Olympics, to be held August 8-24. The
media servers and storage systems will allow NBC to produce an
unprecedented 3,600 hours of coverage during the Beijing Olympic
Games -- a three-fold increase over the coverage during the 2004
Athens Olympic Games. Picture this: A gymnast leaps onto the
balance beam. By the time she makes a dismount, NBC's broadcast
footage has already been stored on the Seagate Barracuda ES hard
drive in Omneon's Beijing MediaGrid active storage system, traveled
6,350 miles to the New York MediaGrid active storage system,
processed, and quickly transmitted as compelling coverage on
television and http://www.nbcolympics.com/. The innovative workflow
begins in China with 20 MediaDeck servers, powered by the Barracuda
ES hard drives, which are used to digitize and ingest HD feeds.
Each MediaDeck server contains both high-resolution and
low-resolution codecs to simultaneously create both full-resolution
IMX or XDCAM HD files and low-resolution proxy files of all
recordings. The resulting files are actively transferred, while
still being recorded, to the MediaGrid active storage system. Then,
using Omneon's ProCast CDN(TM) content distribution system, the
proxies are transferred thousands of miles from the MediaGrid
active storage system in Beijing to a second MediaGrid storage
system in New York, again powered by Seagate Barracuda ES hard
drives, where producers can browse, view, and edit the files. "NBC
needs to capture every second of every competition at multiple
venues in China, quickly turning them into dynamic programming for
television and Internet broadcasting -- nothing can fall through
the cracks," said Bill Schilling, marketing director at Seagate.
"We welcomed the opportunity to work with Omneon to support NBC for
its Olympics coverage. Omneon is the market leader for developing
storage solutions for broadcast video, which is becoming more
prevalent via the Web, especially for hugely popular sporting
events like the Olympics." "Because the workflow must be seamless
and the nature of the programming is so significant, we decided to
use Seagate's enterprise hard drives, which are the best fit for
our needs in terms of reliability, best-in-class design and
unrivaled performance," said Geoff Stedman, SVP products and
markets at Omneon. Broadcast coverage of the Beijing Olympics will
begin on August 8 along with coverage via the web at
http://www.nbcolympics.com/ About Seagate Seagate is the worldwide
leader in the design, manufacture and marketing of hard disc drives
and storage solutions, providing products for a wide-range of
applications, including Enterprise, Desktop, Mobile Computing,
Consumer Electronics and Branded Solutions. Seagate's business
model leverages technology leadership and world-class manufacturing
to deliver industry-leading innovation and quality to its global
customers, with the goal of being the time-to-market leader in all
markets in which it participates. The company is committed to
providing award-winning products, customer support and reliability
to meet the world's growing demand for information storage. Seagate
can be found around the globe and at http://www.seagate.com/. About
NBC Olympics NBC, "America's Olympic Network," owns the exclusive
U.S. media rights to the Olympic Games, television's most powerful
property, through 2012, which includes Beijing in 2008, Vancouver
in 2010 and London in 2012. From August 8-24, 2008 NBC Universal
will present an unprecedented 3,600 hours of coverage, highlighted
by NBC in primetime with live swimming, gymnastics and beach
volleyball. In August 2004, 203 million viewers watched as the
networks of NBC Universal -- NBC(R), MSNBC(R), CNBC(R), USA(R),
Bravo(R), Telemundo(R), and NBC's HD affiliates -- offered a then
record 1,210 hours of Olympic coverage from Athens. For additional
information, go to http://nbcolympics.com/, a year-round
destination for fans of Olympic sports, featuring news, Beijing
previews, athlete features, expert blogs, photos, Olympic video
from the NBC archives and social tools enabling users to build
communities around their favorite sports, post comments and blogs.
About Omneon Omneon, Inc. is a leading provider of scalable media
server and active storage systems that optimize workflow
productivity and on-air reliability for the production,
distribution, and management of digital media. Omneon is a pioneer
in the use of advanced IT technologies and open systems for
broadcast applications, producing a modular and expandable video
server architecture in the Omneon Spectrum(TM) media server system.
The company's MediaGrid active storage system delivers centralized
content storage that is scalable in capacity, bandwidth, and
media-processing power. The company has an extensive global
presence with customers in 55 countries on six continents. Seagate,
Seagate Technology and the Wave logo are registered trademarks of
Seagate Technology LLC in the United States and/or other countries.
Barracuda ES is either a trademark or registered trademark of
Seagate Technology LLC in the United States and/or other countries.
All other trademarks or registered trademarks are the property of
their respective owners. When referring to hard drive capacity, one
gigabyte, or GB, equals one billion bytes and one terabyte, or TB,
equals one trillion bytes. Your computer's operating system may use
a different standard of measurement and report a lower capacity. In
addition, some of the listed capacity is used for formatting and
other functions, and thus will not be available for data storage.
Seagate reserves the right to change, without notice, product
offerings or specifications. DATASOURCE: Seagate CONTACT: Colleen
Rodriguez, +1-831-439-2499, , or Woody Monroy, +1-831-439-2838, ,
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