Silex Media, a leading digital workflow solution provider focusing on the Broadcast and Media market, has seen an exciting year of geographical and organizational growth since the last NAB. Focused on the vision to deliver innovative open IT-based solutions to broadcast and media organizations, Silex Media acquired both new projects with existing industry partners and customers as well as a substantial enlargement of its customer base. The basis for Silex Media s continued success is the strong mix of product technologies, partnerships, leading integration services, and support.
Worldwide Expansion Significant projects in Japan and the United States have established Silex Media outside of Europe, solidifying the company s position in the international broadcast market. The new subsidiary in Centreville, Virginia, near Washington, D.C., has become the base for Silex Media s operation in the U.S., where there is a strong need for a complete solution approach combined with broadcast integration and turn-key implementation skills. For example, one of the world s most significant distributors of sports content to television and the Internet, the NBA owned NBATV, is using Hydrogen Archive Catalyst (HAC) to pioneer customized content offerings to basketball fans. HAC facilitates immediate access to the hierarchical storage management system on which this content has been archived with its associated metadata, making the assembly of a new mobile program package easy and efficient.
New Customers Announced separately, the company is proud to welcome a number of key customers. At EO, the major Dutch cross-medial public broadcaster, Silex Media has integrated BUG.tv, and implemented workflows using AtomFactory as an MXF gateway to their Final Cut Pro production environment. This way EO connects several MXF sources and the MXF playout to their QuickTime based production system. Silex Media worked hand in hand on this project with Sony Professional Services, which had responsibility for the complete new studio project at the EO.
At the BBC, Silex Media is strengthening its existing partnerships with Quantum, Siemens IT Solutions & Services, and DAVID Systems by providing a solution based on Hydrogen Archive Catalyst (HAC) to enable the BBC DMI Archive to benefit from intuitive timecodebased partial file restore. Over the next few years, this project is expected to grow to many petabytes of media files stored on a mixture of both disk and robotic data tape.
New Solutions Silex Media s proven solution portfolio, targeted at the challenging areas of media lifecycle management, archive integration, and content workflow optimization, has been enhanced with new possibilities for the distribution of multimedia content including the DAVID Systems Moves Media technology. Solutions based on the Moves Media applications have been in regular operation in huge broadcasting networks like Germany s ARD for many years.
Helmut Scherer, head of Silex Media s Professional Services (PS) department, explains. "Broadcast media customers are looking for ways to work together globally and collect and share their content optimally. They are asking for complete solutions from a company that understands their unique requirements while at the same time managing and reducing risk. Solutions that include best of breed products from our partners coupled with the expertise and support of our global PS team help our customers address today s challenges and opportunities."
Worldwide Expansion Significant projects in Japan and the United States have established Silex Media outside of Europe, solidifying the company s position in the international broadcast market. The new subsidiary in Centreville, Virginia, near Washington, D.C., has become the base for Silex Media s operation in the U.S., where there is a strong need for a complete solution approach combined with broadcast integration and turn-key implementation skills. For example, one of the world s most significant distributors of sports content to television and the Internet, the NBA owned NBATV, is using Hydrogen Archive Catalyst (HAC) to pioneer customized content offerings to basketball fans. HAC facilitates immediate access to the hierarchical storage management system on which this content has been archived with its associated metadata, making the assembly of a new mobile program package easy and efficient.
New Customers Announced separately, the company is proud to welcome a number of key customers. At EO, the major Dutch cross-medial public broadcaster, Silex Media has integrated BUG.tv, and implemented workflows using AtomFactory as an MXF gateway to their Final Cut Pro production environment. This way EO connects several MXF sources and the MXF playout to their QuickTime based production system. Silex Media worked hand in hand on this project with Sony Professional Services, which had responsibility for the complete new studio project at the EO.
At the BBC, Silex Media is strengthening its existing partnerships with Quantum, Siemens IT Solutions & Services, and DAVID Systems by providing a solution based on Hydrogen Archive Catalyst (HAC) to enable the BBC DMI Archive to benefit from intuitive timecodebased partial file restore. Over the next few years, this project is expected to grow to many petabytes of media files stored on a mixture of both disk and robotic data tape.
New Solutions Silex Media s proven solution portfolio, targeted at the challenging areas of media lifecycle management, archive integration, and content workflow optimization, has been enhanced with new possibilities for the distribution of multimedia content including the DAVID Systems Moves Media technology. Solutions based on the Moves Media applications have been in regular operation in huge broadcasting networks like Germany s ARD for many years.
Helmut Scherer, head of Silex Media s Professional Services (PS) department, explains. "Broadcast media customers are looking for ways to work together globally and collect and share their content optimally. They are asking for complete solutions from a company that understands their unique requirements while at the same time managing and reducing risk. Solutions that include best of breed products from our partners coupled with the expertise and support of our global PS team help our customers address today s challenges and opportunities."
