Harris Corporation awarded HD television infrastructure systems contract from Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Culture and Information

This sale illustrates another real-world Harris ONE installation and includes a wide range of Harris solutions that optimize the channel release, core processing, media transport, and newsroom and editing workflows of today's broadcast operations.

This is the fourth project awarded to Harris to support MOCI's build-out of its HD infrastructure across all Saudi Television sites. The sale was handled by First Gulf Company (FGC) in Saudi Arabia.

Under this latest HD project, Harris will upgrade the Saudi Television facility in Dammam, located in the eastern region of the country. The new facility consists of two HD studio control rooms for news and production, serving all Saudi TV channels in Dammam.

The project marks the first Middle East application of the Harris® Intrinsic Mirroring™ SAN-based fault tolerance technology, the latest advance in NEXIO™ server storage protection.

"Once again, the Harris approach of providing integrated HD workflow solutions will provide the best application for our newest HD facilities in Dammam," said Dr. Riyadh Najm, Deputy Minister of Engineering, Ministry of Culture and Information.

"The company's Intrinsic Mirroring™ architecture provides an added layer of redundancy for data survivability and on-air availability, as it simultaneously mirrors content to two NEXIO™ storage area networks (SANs) during ingest. This eliminates the need to copy content from one SAN to another or to replicate data as a background function, providing Saudi TV with considerable cost efficiencies."

At the heart of the HD control room will be a fully interoperable Harris broadcast system comprising multiple NEXIO™ video servers, Platinum™ routers and Videotek® TVM-950 multiformat HD/SD-SDI signal analysers, as well as CENTRIO™ multiviewers and NEO® and 6800+™ modular series frame synchronisers and converters. This sale also includes a significant number of Velocity NX™ full-featured HD promotions craft editors and Inscriber® RTX™ and Inscriber® G3™ graphics solutions.

The patent-pending Intrinsic Mirroring™ technology, the latest advance in NEXIO™ storage protection for all SAN-based NEXIO™ systems, is a software-based option that leverages the powerful, Emmy®-winning RAIDsoft™ software RAID technology inherent in Fibre Channel-connected NEXIO™ I/O nodes. Working with RAIDsoft™, Intrinsic Mirroring™ provides 100 percent bandwidth capacity even if one side of the mirrored storage system fails.

Harris Broadcast Communications offers products, systems and services that provide interoperable workflow solutions that span the entire broadcast delivery chain. The Harris ONE approach brings together highly integrated and cost-effective products that are ideal for emerging media business models and for customers upgrading media operations to digital and high-definition services.