Media-Alliance upgrades Intigral

06 August 2010

Media-Alliance has completed a station upgrade for Dubai-based broadcaster Intigral, a Saudi Telecom-Astro Malaysia joint venture broadcasting over 200 international channels as well as VoD services.

Intigral's setup had been aimed at supporting around 50 channels, but needed to upgrade to support over 200 channels, plus VoD. Its goal was to achieve automated processes, including ingest, online and offline censorship and auto editing, while improving search and catalogue facilities, auto subtitling and repurposing the same contents to different platforms.

A live censorship system was created based on a client/server application scalable from a few channels up to hundreds. At the core of the system is the Avio video server, offering instant replay and live editing capability, as well as allowing editors to cut, edit and replay while still recording. The client application, Catone, also includes the Onda flexible scheduling system as well as automated ad insertion.

As well as 25 Avio video servers supporting up to 50 channels in both SD/HD; Intigral has 50 operators running Catone for live censorship; Avio video servers and the Viva ingest system for the ingest area, and both DiskArchive Alto-100 and MediaXplorer Media Asset Management (MAM) systems for archiving, production and offline censorship. The upgrade was carried out by by Glocom, a large systems integrator based in Dubai.