USA/China: Omneon, provider of flexible media server and active storage systems has provided the Spectrum media server system to China's Jinan TV for ingest and redundant playout of news, entertainment and business programming from its new facility in Shandong province. The modular Spectrum system gives Jinan an interoperable and scalable platform for transmission of 10 channels.The Spectrum system went on the air in June to replace the 23-year-old broadcaster's aging Pinnacle MediaStream server at the facility. 16 channels of MPEG-2 content are ingested to the first Spectrum system in 12 Mbps Long GOP format. The capacity of the server configuration is about 1,150 hours at 50 Mbps. For playout, the broadcaster deploys main and backup servers, each with a capacity of about 570 hours of MPEG-2 files at 12 Mbps.The Spectrum server system's open architecture provides support for various third-party application for control, transmission and collaborative production. The Spectrum system's open-fi le and open-encoding formats enable NewAuto NLE-generated content to be moved to NAS storage and then to the Spectrum playout server without transcoding. The Spectrum servers at Jinan TV are also integrated with Wuyou Automation Software from China's Founder Digital Video. Wuyou Automation is found in over two-thirds of China's provincial TV stations.The Spectrum's modular design allows incremental expansion without broadcasting downtime, a feature important to Jinan which expects to add two new channels soon.

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