ISID, Telindus, Techex and Sgi digitize audiovisual management in Moncloa

ISID, Telindus and Techex with computer equipment and consulting from Sgi have carried out a complex process of digitization of the recording, management and editing system of audiovisual and radio content that is carried out by the Communication Secretariat of the Ministry of the Presidency.

The Secretary of State for Communication of the Ministry of the Presidency at the Palacio de La Moncloa has implemented a new digital system for the recording, management and editing of audiovisual and radio content. ISID, Telindus and Techex with computer equipment and consulting from Sgi have carried out a complex digitalization process

ISID has been responsible for the development and adaptation of the Videoma software to the requirements of the project; Techex, in close relationship with ISID, has defined the project architecture, finding the most appropriate workflow that would make the most of Videoma's capabilities; Telindus has carried out the consulting and integration of the entire necessary platform, achieving an unbeatable optimization of the available resources, in addition to the 24x7 monitoring of the system and SGI has provided the consulting and services related to the HSM hardware and software involved in the project.

The system implemented in Moncloa allows the recording, management, editing and monitoring of up to 36 radio and television channels. The SGI IS220 storage subsystem, calculated to record approximately 384 hours of video per day and 216 hours of radio per day, has a raw online storage capacity of 38 TB.

The historical storage of all the recorded material, a total of 60% of the daily recordings, required 73.63 TB that have been covered by the Spectralogic T200 library, supplied by SGI.

Likewise, and due to the need to keep the stored historical content online, a virtualization of said content has been created for its accessibility over the network from any PC. This virtualization has been carried out using HSM servers with the SGI DMF data life cycle management software. All access is done instantly. Through this volume sharing system, it is possible for both the recording and the query to be carried out concurrently on the same storage, and due to its redundant configuration, it shows a reliability of 99% in the face of these needs.

The servers chosen for the installation of the Videoma Broadcast Monitor software were the SGI Altix XE210. To transcode the files stored in MPEG2 into Windows Media files, transcoding servers also based on SGI Altix

From analog to digital

Until now, all audiovisual content monitored in Moncloa was treated in analog format. With the eminent arrival of Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT) and the analogue blackout, it was necessary to migrate to a system adapted to the new demands of DTT.

The terrestrial DVB signal reception system has been based on Exterity equipment, allowing the selection of all the services or channels that are broadcast within the same transport frame (satellite or DTT), then assigning each extracted channel to a multicast IP address, which can be viewed by any streaming client on the data network, as well as by the recording server. Using Videoma Broadcast Monitor, all channel routing over multicast IP addresses is managed, in addition to planning the recordings of the television and radio signals existing in the multicast network.

Videoma Broadcast Monitor also has a viewer of television channels or radio stations in live broadcast mode or on demand mode, for all the material already available in the storage. The viewing of live television channels is done through a mosaic view of several television channels and audio monitoring called the active channel.

The system allows you to define documentation sheets to organize the content by topic. Users tag the content for later search and retrieval. This facilitates searches for console operators who can refer to the information, by means of the string, date and time password or by the documentation entered regarding the video. From the operation console and through the Videoma Broadcast Monitor Web interface, the operator views the content.

Regarding the hardware used, an SGI IS220 storage subsystem was implemented, calculated for the recording of about 384 hours of video per day and 216 hours of radio per day, with a raw online storage capacity of 38 TB. The historical storage of all the recorded material, a total of 60% of the daily recordings, required 73.63 TB that have been covered by the Spectralogic T200 library, supplied by SGI.

There was also an SGI HSM system and the servers chosen for the installation of the Videoma Broadcast Monitor software were the SGI Altix XE210. To transcode files stored in MPEG2 into Windows Media files, transcoding servers also based on SGI Altix XE 210 technology were used.