KCET Upgrades With SeaChange Universal

Noncommercial KCET Los Angeles (DMA 2) will launch its new state-of-the-art Burbank facility with a 56 HD channel SeaChange Universal MediaLibrary system. The system architecture includes 360 TB of shared storage to support air-protected playout as well as near-line storage.

KCET will deploy the new master control play-to-air operation around main and air-protect Universal MediaLibrary (UML) systems.  A third UML is integrated as near-line storage utilized for browsing of proxy files and as shared storage across multiple applications in the facility.

KCET’s play-to-air topology includes 56 SD/HD I/O channels via SeaChange MediaClient 8200 codecs. The SeaChange MediaClient is a modular software codec that serves as a building block for ingest and play-to-air systems. The system also includes main and backup MSV 1200 edge servers deployed for time delayed channels.

With its simultaneous NAS and SAN connectivity, KCET is able to share its UML storage across the enterprise, allowing MediaClient codecs to attach as high-performance iSCSI clients in a SAN environment. It also provides access to all files via FTP or CIFS NAS clients. The Universal MediaLibrary is available in 1 TB, 2 TB and 3 TB drive configurations, enabling a system to scale to multiple petabytes in a single global name space.

“We have relied on SeaChange broadcast servers and storage for years.  The redundancy built into their servers have never let us down,” said Gordon Bell, senior vice president for Engineering, Operations and IT, KCET. “We are looking forward to many more years as we write a new chapter in our history at KCET.”

SeaChange Broadcast is becoming XOR Media, an independent technology company that will support existing SeaChange Broadcast customers and deliver media storage and codecs solutions to the market.