Ascent Media EMEA Standardizes Compliance Logging on Volicon Observer® Enterprise
BURLINGTON, Mass. — Oct. 12, 2010 — Volicon today announced that Ascent Media EMEA is standardizing on the Volicon Observer® Enterprise for compliance logging of channels originated from the company’s European transmission center. Ascent Media EMEA plays out 35 channels to mainland Europe, and the company is migrating all of those channels onto Observer systems installed in its central London facility. The Observer system provides Ascent Media EMEA with a stable and scalable platform for logging its channel output, as well as the tools that its engineers need to quickly identify signal quality issues on any output.
“Underlying every technology investment we make is a commitment to reliability,” said Steve Samwell, director of technology at Ascent Media EMEA. “We’ve worked with a number of compliance logging systems, and only Volicon’s Observer has come through with the stability we require. The Observer is a cost-effective and compact solution that was deployed quickly in a tight space and has subsequently provided our staff and our customers with an excellent front end and intuitive user interface.”
The industry standard for video monitoring and logging, the Volicon Observer family of products captures, stores, and indexes broadcast content from multiple channels, offering users simultaneous, 24/7 access to video from their desktop computers. A fully redundant, enterprise-grade automated record and search appliance, the Observer Enterprise provides a comprehensive range of video content monitoring, logging, and compliance workflows for television station groups and broadcast networks.
Ascent Media EMEA has deployed four quad-channel Observer Enterprise units so far for a total of 16 channels. Among the reasons the company chose the Volicon product is its ability to support all of these channels with a single server, which in turn reduces space, power, and cooling requirements. The output of each channel is logged for 90 days for compliance purposes. Always running in the background, the Observer system makes it easy for Ascent Media EMEA engineering staff to quickly go back in time and find faults such as audio, graphics, or subtitle problems.
“Compliance logging isn’t the most exciting aspect of our operations, but in this area we don’t want exciting; we want reliable,” added Samwell. “Quite honestly, the Observer works, it has a good interface, and it is scalable. These factors and the system’s stability sold us on the Observer and gave us the confidence to standardize on it.”
“Ascent Media EMEA provides its broadcast and network clients with continuous playout of countless elements, and the Observer Enterprise offers a reliable compliance logging solution on which both the company and its customers can depend,” said Mike Asebrook, senior director of product marketing at Volicon. “With a robust range of intuitive video content monitoring, logging, and compliance tools, the Observer gives staff at Ascent Media EMEA a valuable combination of utility and stability.”
More information about the Observer and the complete Volicon product family is available at http://www.volicon.com.
About Volicon
Volicon provides the broadcast and cable industries with the most efficient, reliable, and cost-effective automated multichannel video content logging and monitoring system for compliance, media analysis, content repurposing, and quality of service. Its Observer® real-time digital video monitoring and logging solutions are based on Volicon’s patented Video Monitoring Architecture (VMA). VMA is comprised of a multichannel video streaming engine, interactive search, content analytics, and service monitoring and alarming capabilities. Volicon products and services meet the demanding requirements of broadcasters, cable and IPTV service providers, and enterprise and government organizations looking to improve broadcast product quality, enhance video management, and lower costs. More information is available at http://www.volicon.com.
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