New Delhi TV migrates to high definition with K2 Summit servers

Grass Valley servers work hand-in-hand with the OmniBus automation system to help NDTV migrate its current channels to high definition and launch new services.

New Delhi Television (NDTV), one of the largest television networks in India, has migrated its master control and content distribution infrastructures to high definition. To do this, this broadcaster has trusted the K2 Summit broadcast servers from Grass Valley.

This equipment is already working hand in hand with the OmniBus automation system from Harmonic para ayudar a NDTV a migrar sus canales actuales a alta definición y poder poner nuevos servicios en marcha a coste eficiente. Además los servidores K2 Summit que ha adoptado NDTV se han integrado totalmente con los servidores Profile de Grass Valley con los que NDTV contaba desde hace años para la emisión SD, así como con el archivo de contenidos existente en la actualidad.

The migration to high definition file-based workflows was seen by NDTV as an investment to support the transition to HD in the near future. From an end-to-end solution standpoint, six K2 Summit servers with 16TB of storage have facilitated this transition and the launch of three news channels.

Dinesh Singh, CTO of NDTV, acknowledges that "we realized that to stay one step ahead of the competition and keep our business on the front line, we had to make the move to HD. We have had a great working relationship with Grass Valley over the last few years in terms of system reliability and customer support and, in our view, their server technologies are the best in the industry."

Andrew Sedek, Senior Vice President for Asia-Pacific at Grass Valley, highlighted that “the success we have achieved with the implementation of a file-based production environment and the transfer of content to the new servers at NDTV is a good example of what Grass Valley can achieve locally.”

Finally, it should be noted that NDTV has replaced all its existing Profile servers with the Summit K2 without interrupting the broadcast at any time.