ABS BROADCAST Installs Cinegy Air PRO

Cinegy Air PRO has been used in an installation by playout and television service provide ABS BROADCAST.

Mukund Patel, Head of Technology and Engineering, ABS BROADCAST, said: "We offer extensive broadcast channel management and delivery services, but the heart of our business is playout. The growing demand for our playout services worldwide meant that we simply couldn't continue buying and maintaining racks upon racks of servers. There had to be a better way, which has now clearly emerged as an IP-based approach.

"I knew we needed to think about the future and who we were going to partner with. At IBC in recent years, I saw Cinegy everywhere. I spoke to quite a few people in the industry about them, including existing users of their technology, and the response I invariably got was, 'There are very clever people doing very clever things at Cinegy', but I still wasn't quite convinced because they worked very differently to the way we had traditionally worked."

Patel continued: "After lots of discussion and diligent study, it became abundantly clear that the future is IP and we needed to embrace it. Cinegy is an experienced, visionary company in that world, which means it is a company we felt confident in working with to help us to achieve our vision."

To address growing channel playout requirements, ABS BROADCAST installed Cinegy Air PRO, Cinegy Multiviewer, Cinegy Archive, Cinegy Studio PRO, and Cinegy Type for graphics. All of the modules are now integrated with ABS BROADCAST's 'ABSolute Delivery Platform'.

"In addition to vastly shrinking our power consumption and the amount of rack space required, we now play out multiple channels for an extremely happy customer using a single RJ45 cable," Patel said. "Broadcasters, even electricians, to whom I've shown the system can scarcely believe it."

Jan Weigner, Managing Director and co-founder, Cinegy, said: "ABS BROADCAST has a deserved reputation for excellence and forward thinking. In an IP age, to make a difference to your clients you have to be willing to make an educated advance into new technology that will best serve their needs. We have, and continue to, work very closely with ABS BROADCAST to provide the IP software and support they need to grow their business. It's an excellent partnership that we only seeing growing with our respective businesses in the future."

Image: Jan Weigner.

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(JP/LM)