The partners offer additional ingest power and control tools with improved security and news input; enhancing business continuity and scalability

IBC Show -  Amsterdam, September 6, 2007 – Silex Media, a leading digital workflow provider focusing on the Broadcast and Media market, has announced that it has been selected by EuroNews, Europe's most-watched international news channel, to deliver a state of the art Ingest solution as a result of its partnership with Omneon Video Networks.

Experiencing increasingly high expectations on its IT infrastructure to drive up performance levels and meet tighter timeframes, EuroNews went out to the market to seek vendors that could provide a solution to its problem. Having an already established relationship with Silex Media (the companies met in 2004 when Silex Media was operating as part of the SGI Broadcast Unit and) this was EuroNews’ first stop.

In order to create a solution that addressed the business demands that EuroNews was facing, Silex Media; working closely with Omneon; offered to integrate a new video processing technology with its established Hydrogen Media Accelerator Ingest software. This element alone involved a complex programme of combining Ingest capabilities with Omneon Spectrum server products.

Now complete, the system not only enables key editing functionality to be used while Ingest but it also ensures that security elements within the Hydrogen MediaVista Monitor are not breached and yet allows all qualified members of the EuroNews network to control the service level within a dashboard view.

“As a leader in our space and as a result of the growing demands across the industry, we need to be able to manage more content within tighter timeframes just to stay ahead of our competition,” said Philippe Cayla, Chairman and CEO of EuroNews. “This means that as a business we need to ask more from our infrastructure whilst also allowing for systems to be scaled and security to be maintained. This is a difficult balance to strike. From our research, and their reputation, we concluded that Silex Media’s solution, incorporating the Omneon Spectrum, would offer the most seamless integration in to our existing tapeless workflow”

Stephan Schindler, CEO at Silex Media added, “With more capacity and intelligence than ever before, the business demand for Ingest seems to be increasing on almost a daily basis. The Hydrogen product line that Silex Media offers is well suited to accompany this trend and partnerships with organisations such as Omneon will serve to further enhance complete solutions. We are honoured to have established such a successful working relationship with EuroNews and are delighted that they implicitly trust our technology and expertise to deliver.” 

Greg Hoskin, Vice President of EMEA at Omneon commented, “As a company we’re always looking for dynamic and innovative businesses to partner with; Silex Media’s Hydrogen platform is a perfect addition to our portfolio. We’re looking forward to working closely with them going forward.”

About EuroNews

EuroNews broadcasts to more than 199 million households in 129 countries, distributed worldwide via cable, digital satellite and terrestrial channels making its reach truly global. Since 2004 EuroNews has also concentrated on securing distribution via multi-media platforms including ADSL, digital media and digital terrestrial TV.

EuroNews is the most-watched international news channel in Europe, far ahead of its competitors, with 3.4 million viewers daily via cable and satellite and 3.7 million via terrestrial rebroadcasts in European countries [Source: EuroNews/Telmar Peaktime© Q1 2007]

Launched in 1993 EuroNews is broadcast 24 hours a day, simultaneously in seven languages: English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and Russian and covers world news from a European perspective. www.euronews.net

About Silex Media

Silex Media concentrates on delivering IT-based solutions, integration and workflow products & services to broadcasters and professional media companies that wish to efficiently move from traditional tape based environments to digital workflows or to transition from a radio & television market to an internet & telecommunication position. Silex Media has offices throughout Europe and is 100% backed by SGI Japan whose investors include NEC, SGI, Sony and Canon Marketing of Japan. The company website is www.silexmedia.com.

About Omneon Video Networks

Omneon is the leading provider of flexible media server and active storage systems that optimize workflow productivity and on-air reliability for the production, distribution and management of digital media. Omneon pioneered the use of advanced IT technologies and open systems in broadcast, producing the first totally modular and expandable video server architecture in the Omneon Spectrum. The Company’s latest breakthrough is the MediaGrid, the industry’s first active storage system, delivering centralized storage that is scalable in capacity, bandwidth, and media processing power. The Company has an extensive global presence with customers in 44 countries on 6 continents. Visit Omneon on the web at www.omneon.com.

The Omneon Spectrum server system is highly interoperable with other best-of-breed technologies, making it an ideal fit for a variety of installations that can be customized for individual broadcasters. By combining its expertise in broadcast with the best practices of information technology, Omneon delivers cost-effective and flexible networked media servers that meet the demands of broadcasters worldwide.

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Winfred van Kuijk, Silex Media GmbH, This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it