RNE - Migration
Wednesday, 04 August 2010 01:00
RNE - Migration
MPM 4.0 is a highly scalable system.
In 2008 RTVE began the corporative documentary management project, choosing TEDIAL´s technology for the integrated management of the digital files of TVE and RNE. The audio records of RNE are supported by the Admira system, and include the amount of around 400.000 hours of audio in the formats PCM and MPEG-1 (proxy) with WAV capsule, storing near three millions of assets.
MPM 4.0, the latest version of the integration application system and movement of media of TEDIAL, is showing a highly scalability in the migration of RNE (Spain National Radio) archives. MPM is built under a grid architecture, which allows the addition and cancellation of services and servers dynamically, without stopping the MPM system.
For the migration of Admira system to TARSYS system of TEDIAL were installed five workers/servers that process a total amount of 25 flows simultaneously (multithread). Each flow realizes the following operations: Reading of assets metadata available in Admira; movement of the media files (PCM and MPEG-1) to the storage system controlled by AST (HSM of TEDIAL); automatic analysis (QC done by INDEXER of TEDIAL) of the audio archives and restoration of the WAV capsule with its compatible metadata according to the specification EBU; indexation of the media files for simplifying the partial restoration of the fragments of our interest; load of metadata, media and index files in TARSYS system.
The processed numbers of assets by the five workers are between 600 and 1900 per hour, depending of the audio files extension, having an average of 1150 per hour, and 27600 assets during the whole day. Therefore, a complete migration of Admira system is under 100 days.
The most relevant updates of MPM 4.0 are:
MPM FlowManager: Is the integration module, and receives the media movement commands and metadata in the tapeless system. The new version simplifies the design and the flow implementation by a new component based integration library which are possible to customize and edit, using simple configuration options.
MPM FlowBuilder/Editor: Is the server where the media and metadata workflows are generated in the tapeless system. The newer version includes new methods for scheduling the flows and the pre-processing of them for the generation of decision rules on variables/operations, allows the conditional execution of the flow operations; a running workflow can fire other workflows as a consequence of applying such rules.
MPM FlowWorker: Is the server that processe the media and metadata workflows in the tapeless system. The latest version includes a dynamic update of the operations without no need of stopping the worker, configurable multithread architecture, addition and release of FlowWorkers without stopping the MPM, the transfer options of media between systems were extended including a new Peer-to-Peer MediaMover service based in the UDT protocol for networks with high latency, incorporates SNMP sensors for monitoring the execution of operations flows in real time and notifying to an external system. Thus, the FlowWorker provides information via SNMP of the hardware as well as the running process.
MPM FlowMonitor: Is the monitoring service of all the media and metadata flows defined in the tapeless system. The most recently version has new searching methods of flows in the database, the monitoring of flows according to user profiles defined in LDAP (ingest, emission, production, news, …), the customization of the error messages according to the customer needs, an improved user friendly interaction of the user with the flows during their execution.
MPM DataWarehouse: It makes easier the storage of historical flows and the application of data mining rules for the creation of reports thanks to a structure based in basic units of combined information, having special interest in the generation of statistics for evaluating the performance of the tapeless system.
“The election of the grid technology for the MPM 4.0 design is the key for high scalability, availability and flexibility for its architecture. MPM 4.0 simplifies the integration of systems and the exchange of contains between them, reducing the developing costs, keeping the investment safe for the investors and representing a new era for the EAI (Enterprise Applications Integration) industry, according to the SOA standards,” explained Dr Zapata. “MPM 4.0 is an answer of TEDIAL to the design, customization of tapeless installations on television, integrating the systems and facilitating the exchange of metadata and multi-format media. The excellent technological capabilities of Tedial’s R & D department, in association with Malaga University, has allowed us to develop MPM 4.0 very quickly indeed, to meet the newest and highest standards of content management systems integration.”
All those new functionalities of MPM 4.0, allow to TEDIAL, leader in the audiovisual asset management area, to look for the excellence and a mayor compatibility of its technology with 3rd party systems.
Attenders to the IBC 2010 trade in Amsterdam will be informed for all of those topics and many more about TEDIAL technologies in the stand 8.B41 in the RAI Center during the dates 10 to 14 of September.
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.