Northern Ireland Chooses Dual Colossus Automation Systems For Disaster Recovery

OmniBus Systems, a provider of comprehensive automation and content management solutions to the broadcast industry, has announced that BBC Northern Ireland has gone live with dual Colossus V3 playout automation systems in separate sites in Belfast.
The two systems are linked to provide instant backup and redundancy capability in the event of failure or required maintenance at either facility.
Provided by integrators TSL, the dual Colossus system is based on four channels of playout capability with OmniBus G3 cache management to play localised versions of BBC1 and 2.
The OmniBus Lines Record application is used for ingesting local programmes and to timeshift material for later playout, allowing for insertion of regional content. The two channels are broadcast from separate buildings, with the ability to switch either instantly to the other site with Colossus' Throw Backup feature.
Robert Stopford, VP Sales of OmniBus Systems, said: "With the system configured this way, operators at one site can press a single button to transfer the schedule of either channel to the other site, and control either site from the other.
"This means that we can offer seamless operation if either site experiences a problem."
Colossus V3 is a timeline-based, multi-delivery automation and control system with tools for ingest, quality assurance, content management, workflow management and interfacing with archive systems.
Colossus is scalable, allowing the system to grow without making a system-level change. Colossus implements the OmniBus G3 architecture that separates components into four types: a desktop shell with component plug-ins, device services, data services and application services.
Further information is available at: www.omnibus.tv
(KMcA)