CBC Upgrades TV Production and Delivery Services with NetApp
November 29 2016 - 8:00AM
“Although CBC’s legacy storage infrastructure gave them the basic
media bandwidth they required, they quickly found they needed
additional enterprise-class scalability, reliability, and support
to guarantee video throughput for all of their graphics and edit
workgroups,” said Barry Evans, CTO, Pixit Media. “Given their
needs, we knew immediately that a mix of the NetApp E- Series
all-flash and hybrid systems would best support their video and
audio production needs.”
Since 1994, CBC (Cologne Broadcasting Center) has become one of
the leading broadcasting and television production companies in
Germany. Numerous renowned TV stations and producers rely on CBC
for a wide array of individualized services, including broadcast
operations and services, and teleport, postproduction, and media
services. To serve customers better, CBC replaced its aging file
system with Pixit Media’s PixStor scale-out NAS software running on
NetApp® (NASDAQ:NTAP) E-Series storage arrays for centralized
graphics production storage and online disaster recovery.
CBC’s new storage system is part of a facility upgrade to
replace an aging existing infrastructure within the graphics and
postproduction area to better support broadcast operations. CBC’s
core requirement was for a centralized video editing and graphics
production storage system that could deliver files using standard
protocols over IP rather than legacy Fibre Channel. The new
infrastructure had to be able to play back hundreds of video
streams, including HD and ultra-HD video formats, as well as audio
for Steinberg Nuendo workloads. CBC needed a software-defined
storage solution to scale the system without making forklift
upgrades and a single storage namespace split into multiple storage
pools to handle different workloads. The platform had to work with
both Mac and PC operating systems. In addition, all the video
content in the file system had to be replicated remotely so that
there would be two copies of the data for disaster recovery.
To meet those requirements, CBC chose Pixit Media to install the
PixStor system. The PixStor unified scale-out NAS and SAN solution
provides flexible scalability and predictable performance without
relying on expensive and proprietary hardware technology. CBC and
PixStor chose NetApp E5660 storage arrays with NL-SAS drives to
support video production and EF560 all-flash arrays to support
audio production. The overall infrastructure delivers 6 gigabytes
per second of guaranteed video performance to sustain 450 streams
of simultaneous XDCAM HD422 at 50Mbps playback.
“An integrated storage infrastructure provides central storage
and nearline disaster recovery for CBC’s postproduction and audio
departments,” said Jason Danielson, Product and Solutions Marketing
at NetApp. “With the combination of NetApp and PixStor, CBC can now
transition from expensive Fibre Channel connectivity to more
flexible and inexpensive 10 Gigabit Ethernet connectivity via SMB
3. Together, our solutions are helping hundreds of CBC users access
video workstations to more easily edit video for news, sports,
lifestyle, and entertainment programming.”
More information:
- Learn more about NetApp E-Series storage arrays.
- Take a look behind the scenes. Read our blog.
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