Mar. 8, 2005
Net One Systems Co., Ltd. (President & CEO: Osamu Sawada), Canopus Co., Ltd. (President, COO: Mutsuro Fujiwara) and IBM Japan Ltd. (President: Takuma Otoshi) shall jointly provide digital video delivery and storage solutions to small and medium scale broadcasting stations and CATV (Cable TV) from March 8, 2005.
APC (Automatic Program Controller) currently used by broadcasting companies is comprised of dedicated devices and generally requires investment of about 30M yen.
The digital video delivery and storage solution announced today is an open architecture system comprised of Canopus solution realizing digital video capture, storage, and delivery, Net One's network solution and IBM Japan's IA server, IBM xSeries and storage, DS series. The price is very competitive and the cost of a system with minimum configuration is 5M yen. An average configuration with storage feature and network added to APC costs around 10M yen. This is one third of cost of conventional APC systems.
By utilizing our solution, local TV and CATV stations may save in storage, the digital data of existing analog broadcasts while they are airing.
For videos equivalent to MPEG-2 (6Mbps,) approximately 350 hours worth may be stored in 1TB of storage and a library may also be created. The digital data that have been stored may be adapted for digital broadcasting in the future, resold to other broadcasting companies, use for repeated usage through Internet broadcasting. In addition, although in the past, delivery required providing actual videotapes, delivery can now place instantaneously through utilizing the computer networks.
