Implementing A Digital Video Archive Using XenData Software And A Spectra Logic Archive

Broadcasting is rapidly moving from video tape to a digital environment. It is generally accepted that digital automation and delivery offer better performance and lower costs than traditional analogue approaches. When it comes to video archiving, retaining the historical material as files and storing those files on magnetic disk arrays (RAID) and digital tape offers the same benefits.

With the Video Edition of XenData Archive Series software on a Windows server and a Spectra Logic T-Series digital archive, broadcast organizations have a digital video system ideal for the demanding requirements of the broadcast industry.

This integrated digital content archive solution is high performance, typically writing and reading at ten times real-time. It is nonproprietary, however, presenting the Spectra Logic digital archive as a standard Windows file system that allows it to be used by multiple applications. In addition, the Spectra Logic T-Series tape archives are highly scalable from 350 hours to more than 265000 hours at 25 Mb/sec. The highly reliable archive solution provides your staff with unmatched hands-on management and maintenance.

This paper discusses system architecture, video file management options, and digital tape format and library choices.