Northern Ireland Chooses Dual Colossus Automation Systems for Disaster Recovery
Twin Facilities Provide Instant Backup and Control Between Sites
LONDON— July 22, 2008 — OmniBus Systems, the award-winning provider of comprehensive automation and content management solutions to the broadcast industry, today announced that BBC Northern Ireland has gone live with dual Colossus V3 playout automation systems in separate sites in Belfast. The two systems are linked to provide instant backup and redundancy capability in the event of failure or required maintenance at either facility.
Provided by integrators TSL, the dual Colossus system is based on four channels of playout capability with OmniBus G3 cache management to play localised versions of BBC 1 and 2. The OmniBus Lines Record application is used for ingesting local programmes and to timeshift material for later playout, allowing for insertion of regional content. The two channels are broadcast from separate buildings, with the ability to switch either instantly to the other site with Colossus's Throw Backup feature.
"With the system configured this way, operators at one site can press a single button to transfer the schedule of either channel to the other site, and control either site from the other," said Robert Stopford, VP sales, OmniBus Systems. "This means that we can offer seamless operation if either site experiences a problem."
Colossus V3 is a timeline-based, multi-channel, multi-delivery automation and control system with tools for ingest, quality assurance, content management, workflow management and interfacing with archive systems. Colossus is scalable, allowing the system to grow without making a system-level change. Colossus implements the OmniBus G3 architecture that separates components into four types: a desktop shell with component plug-ins, device services, data services and application services.
More information about OmniBus Systems' digital asset management, automation and transmission technology is available online at www.omnibus.tv.
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About Chellomedia
Chellomedia, the European content division of Liberty Global, Inc., is a leading international media company and distributor of channels, content and video services. The division's operating companies and business units currently own and operate 26 branded TV channels and run a suite of digital, on demand and broadband services in Europe. The aggregate subscriber base of the channels and its feeds reach 216 million homes*. Chellomedia focuses its TV channel business globally through its 100% owned and operating company, Chellozone, via channels such as JimJam, the leading international pre-school channel, Zone Reality, Zone Horror and the Extreme Sports Channel and regionally in Iberia through Chello Multicanal, in the Benelux, where Chello Benelux operates the premium sports and movie channels Sport1 & Film1, and in Chello Central Europe where the bouquet includes Sport 1&2, the leading children's channel, Minimax, and the joint venture channel, MGM.
*Consolidated (182 million) and nonconsolidated (34 million) channels, multiplexes and feeds.
About OmniBus Systems
OmniBus Systems provides broadcasting, cable and satellite organizations with comprehensive automation and media content management solutions that address every area of television-related operations. Its newsroom, content and workflow automation solutions include acquisition and recording of rich media material, low-resolution editing, media asset management and playout. OmniBus is a global company with headquarters in the United Kingdom and offices in the United States and Singapore. More information is available at www.omnibus.tv.
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