Dec 04, 2007

Volicon Observer® to Provide State-of-the-Art Video Logging, Monitoring for American Forces Network

“The DMC is an excellent example of the growing numbers of media organizations that are moving away from traditional broadcasting technologies and towards digital, file-based systems running in the existing IT environment. State-of-the-art solutions such as the Observer are enabling this strategy, by making it easy for operators to access, monitor, share, and analyze media assets and data right from their own desktops.”

Volicon, a leading provider of media monitoring, recording, archiving, and streaming solutions, today announced that the Defense Media Center (DMC) of the American Forces Network (AFN) has purchased the Observer® desktop monitoring system to log and monitor all of the facility’s broadcasts. Observer will be the first broadcast system linked into the DMC’s local area network (LAN) and will allow the center to review logging content over its IT infrastructure for the first time.

Operated by the Department of Defense, the DMC is located in Riverside, California, and manages the AFN Broadcast Center (AFN-BC), which provides stateside radio and television programming – “a touch of home” – to approximately 800,000 U.S. service men and women as well as DoD civilians and their families serving outside the United States in 177 countries and aboard Navy ships at sea. The DMC’s Observer system includes 40 SD-SDI channels for monitoring the outbound transmission integrity of all AFN radio and television broadcasts. The Observer system will automatically ingest, reference, and recall all as-run traffic data and correlate that data against logged media. In addition, Observer will log and proactively alert operators to transmission defects such as loss of audio and video, static or black video, and loss of closed captions.

By logging onto the LAN via their own PCs, DMC operators will be able to search for and retrieve video clips by closed caption data, channel, date and time, as-run logs and custom data sources. Along with proactively diagnosing and correcting transmission faults, operators will also be able to easily extract clips for quality control review and equipment failure analysis. In addition, a local quality control station will allow technicians to review content for the accurate placement of cue tones channel-by-channel and system-wide using a tone decoder.

“The DMC is an excellent example of the growing numbers of media organizations that are moving away from traditional broadcasting technologies and towards digital, file-based systems running in the existing IT environment,” said Julius Perl, vice president of marketing at Volicon. “State-of-the-art solutions such as the Observer are enabling this strategy, by making it easy for operators to access, monitor, share, and analyze media assets and data right from their own desktops.”

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