NAB 2010
Monday, 05 April 2010 01:00
NAB 2010
Tedial leads the industry in integrated media management and service oriented architectures.
NAB demonstration of CMIS follows contract for massive archive project.
Málaga, Spain/Las Vegas Convention Center – Hall N3 Booth N5832, 5 April 2010 Tedial will be attending NAB2010 to demonstrate its advanced technological superiority across its complete suite of products for media management and broadcast process automation. The NAB presence follows a very successful period for the company culminating in the win of probably the largest archiving project anywhere in the world at the moment: to digitise and manage 800,000 hours of video for Radio Televisión Española (RTVE). Tarsys 4.0, the new version of Tedial digital asset management platform which integrates the CMIS standard is being used for the first time in this project.
“Our team of more than 70 development engineers, working in association with colleagues from Málaga University, is working on continually improving our products, and we expect to keep on growing in the broadcast market,” said José Mesas, managing director of Tedial “All our software products are based on international standards, representing an important guarantee to our customers.”
There is a growing requirement to create multi-media content flows for production and archiving, bringing video, audio, documents and data together in a single service-oriented architecture. The new Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS) standard enables heterogenous archive structures, and Tedial has led the industry by implementing CMIS in the new version 4.0 of its Tarsys media asset management platform. By using CMIS as a Java implementation, user can use web services to create a complex structure without the need for significant bespoke software development.
“It allows our systems to optimise the available resources and permit an unlimited scalability,” said Mesas. “The RTVE project is an excellent example, digitising 400,000 audio recordings alongside the 800,000 hours of video and a tight interface to the document archive. Our architecture supports RTVE’s plans for 1500 hours a day of digitisation from five different locations, to storage including 800 terabytes on disk and 24 petabytes on data tape.”
The RTVE architecture uses all the elements of the Tedial suite of products: Ficus business process management, Tarsys asset management, MPM media process management, AST hierarchical archiving, Indexer automated metadata and transcoding tools and Capture ingest. Updates to each are being demonstrated at NAB2010 to illustrate the power and sophistication of the solution.
Tedial is certified to ISO 9001 (quality management for its software) and ISO 27001 (security management for information). The implementation of CMIS is the most recent example of Tedial taking the best of emerging technologies and standards to offer unprecedented functionality to broadcast and media companies. According to Professor Emilio López Zapata, co-founder of Tedial, “CMIS provides a better access to content, reduces development costs, protects customers’ investments and represents a new era for the industry, based on open standards.
“Tarsys 4.0 is Tedial’s response, in record time, to these new standards of content management system integration, demonstrating once again the high technological capabilities of the company’s R&D department and its partnership with Málaga University.”
Tedial innovations at NAB 2010:
Ficus is the broadcast process manager (BPM), designed to improve the efficiency of the organisation through the systematic management and control of all its processes. Ficus now incorporates web-based connectivity, allowing users to work collaboratively from multiple locations and giving individual staff the ability to be mobile as required
Tarsys is the multi-format content management system (DAM), which in the new version 4.0 includes a Java implementation of the CMIS standard, allowing integration with document management tools from other vendors without major development effort. It includes sub-components for search, data warehousing, synchronisation and load balancing.
MPM is the media process manager which enables completely tapeless workflows at any scale. Because it is designed on the concept of grid computing without the need for centralised control it allows unlimited scaling. At NAB new functionality makes it even easier for users to establish workflows, understand the resource availability and see at a glance the health of the whole network thanks to SNMP.
AST is the hierarchical management system, which also uses grid computing to virtualise resources (including disk and tape libraries) and balance loads between servers. A new module “Files On a Package” allows to aggregate multiple small archives to optimise the access to data tapes, thereby increasing their cycle life, reading speed and bandwidth.
Indexer provides automatic analysis and indexing of video, audio and still images. The new version at NAB2010 adds more wrapping and unwrapping tools to solve compatibility issues between the formats used by different manufacturers. It allows content to be stored and manipulated within the system with the greatest efficiency, minimising transcoding operations and maximising quality. H.264 has been added, boosting the performance of Final Cut Pro editing attached to the system.
Capture, the ingest tool, has been boosted with each workstation capable of managing multiple sources simultaneously, and generating proxy copies in H.264 or AAC in real time. It also includes new modules for monitoring eVTRs and servers such as Omneon MediaGrid and Grass Valley K2.
About Tedial:
Tedial (Tecnologias Digitales Audiovisuales) is a European high technology company, based in Spain, that specialises in asset management and process control in systems which include audio-visual content, including broadcast, institutional, healthcare and industry. It is a market leader in Spain and Latin American and is active globally in delivering innovative, complete and highly functional media and process management systems.