Silex Media has developed a middleware based IT-framework that enables organisations to simply and effectively integrate broadcast applications and production islands within an existing workflow management environment, or allows them to use the technology to create a complete Media Lifecycle Management system for archives and production without being locked into one vendor or one solution.

The result is a highly integrated environment that allows the total enterprise to have better (re)use of the content and producing content faster than before.

This framework has been productized by DAVID Systems, under the name of Hydrogen. The Hydrogen products continue to play a big role in the workflow solutions provided by Silex Media.Each project is different, so is each implementation. Silex Media's experts know how to best integrate and customize the middleware.

Hydrogen consists of:

• Hydrogen Media Accelerator: faster time to air, automatically preparing assets for edit and playout.
  Branded as AtomFactory, the software has been rewritten specifically for the popular Apple Final Cut Pro NLE.

• Hydrogen Archive Catalyst: transparent access to hierarchical storage management digital tape based archive.

• Hydrogen Lifecycle Management: the backbone information system for the broadcast cooperation - integrating systems, functionalities and workflows.