| GV to build and equip new Aussie playout facility |
| Posted: December 2009 | ||||||
 The recently announced playout facility planned for Australia, a joint venture between broadcasters
Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) and WIN Corporation,has selected Grass Valley (GV) as the prime contractor to design, build and equip a major new multichannel, multi-client HD/SD playout centre. The custom-built centre will include ingest, storage, asset management, automated playout, monitoring and headend systems with all applicable equipment and professional services being provided by GV, according to the multimillion-euro agreement.GV said the playout centre will be the first facility in Australia to host multi-client, free-to-air broadcasters and will be equipped with GV’s K2 media servers for online and near-line storage using new 1TB Raid disks, K2 Summit servers for time delay, Maestro SD/HD branding and master control systems, Trinix NXT routers, and GeckoFlex signal-processing products for signal switching and conditioning. A ContentShare2 workflow and media asset management system will be used within the playout centre as well as to interface the centre with its multiple clients’ individual production centres. A Granite Sentinel will be used for ASI monitoring of the centre’s MPEG-2 transport streams. “This playout centre will deliver enhanced and cost-effective services and increase the programming capability and capacity of WIN now and into the future. It will equip us to cater to the enhanced demands for digital broadcasting throughout Australia,” said Peter Lambourne, executive director of WIN Corporation. Add this page to your favorite Social Bookmarking websites       
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