SBS goes to air on schedule
with Enterprise sQ
August 30, 2010
Source: Quantel
SBS, Australia's national multicultural
and multilingual broadcaster, has completed another major
step in its transition to fully file-based operation having
successfully gone on air with its new Quantel Enterprise sQ
system in Sydney. The new system went live on August 2nd right
on schedule; all News bulletins are now live with Long Form
production and Sport scheduled over the next two months.
"The successful switch over to the Quantel system is
the culmination of five years' evolutionary change at SBS,"
said Paul Broderick, SBS Director Technology and Distribution.
"Our plan was to go to air with News on the Quantel system
as soon as the World Cup (soccer) was over, which was an ambitious
timeline having only ordered the new system in February this
year. Quantel has met all the milestones to date for installation,
training and commissioning"
The scale of the change for SBS was dramatic by any standards.
"A few years ago we were reliant on a very tired fleet
of around 220 DVCPRO tape machines that served SBS very well
but needed pensioning off. The switch to Enterprise sQ and
other tapeless ventures such as non-linear cameras and a large
automated archive has enabled us to remove around 160 of these
machines from the operation," Broderick added.
"As part of the transition plan we put together a comprehensive
training program with Quantel which saw around 215 staff get
fully trained in a very short timescale. This gave our staff
a very high degree of confidence in the system which paid
off in the smooth transition of each of the programs to live
operation with the Quantel solution."
"We were particularly impressed with how quickly Quantel
rectified the inevitable issues that arose during the commissioning
phase. Their prompt response ensured that the project remained
on track whilst the SBS engineering team were stretched across
this project, The World Cup and the Tour de France coverage."
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