Spanish-language programmer Hispanic Information and Telecommunications Network installed new servers and storage systems from Acton, Mass.-based SeaChange International in its master-control center at the Brooklyn Navy Yard in New York, where they are being used to handle both standard-definition and HD playout.
The nonprofit programmer -- its educational, Hispanic-focused programming is carried by multichannel operators Comcast, DirecTV, Dish Network, Charter Communications, Time Warner Cable, Verizon Communications’ FiOS TV and AT&T U-verse TV -- is now operating SeaChange’s Broadcast MediaLibrary servers and MediaClient codecs, which were installed last month.
HITN, a longtime SeaChange customer, also repurposed legacy SeaChange servers for production applications as it upgrades to HD service.
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“Given the history of reliability and performance that we enjoyed with our legacy SeaChange platform over the years, making the move to the BML/MCL architecture as we transitioned to HD was a natural decision,” HITN chief engineer Javier Casilimas said in a statement. “The BML/MCL is compatible with our original system, which made the transition particularly seamless. In addition, we are able to continue using the other system in a production capacity.”
