Challenge: Provide highly reliable, predict- able performance and scalable storage at the heart of news and sports broadcasting. Solution: Deliver an OEM solution that provides EVS with a high- performance, highly scalable storage infrastructure that includes E-Series storage.

1. Success Story
NetApp Storage at the
Center of News and Sports
Broadcasting
Customer Profile video consumption is going through
KEY HIGHLIGHTS
Founded in 1995, EVS Broadcast the roof. Never has this been more true
Industry Equipment SA is the market leader in than in the highly competitive news
Media and Entertainment disk-based sports broadcasting and broadcasting environment. It seems
news production systems. Chances are that the traditional “15 minutes of fame”
The Challenge when you see Wayne Rooney scoring are now being measured in seconds. To
Provide highly reliable, predict- a goal with a bicycle kick in super-slow meet the demands of more content on
able performance and scalable motion, you’re watching EVS technol- more screens in less time, broadcast-
storage at the heart of news and ogy in action. From its early roots in ers are adopting file-based workflows
sports broadcasting. live sports broadcasting, the company throughout the production process.
The Solution has expanded its product line and
This new form of production technique
Deliver an OEM solution dramatically grown its bottom line by
relies heavily on storage throughout the
that provides EVS with a high- entering the world of file-based news
process, from content ingest to broad-
performance, highly scalable production. The company’s products
cast playout. Twenty-four-by-seven
storage infrastructure that are operated 24/7 by the world’s most
news coverage, combined with the
includes E-Series storage. influential broadcasting companies,
absolute requirement of uninterrupted
including Turner Broadcasting, NBC,
broadcast playout, is one of the most
Benefits BSkyB, Fox, CanalPlus, and many
technically challenging environments
Provides predictable perfor- more. EVS technology has also been at
for storage solutions anywhere.
mance for mission-critical the center of the Olympic Games and
broadcasts World Cup Football tournaments for the The Solution
Delivers a highly scalable stor- past decade. Headquartered in Sera- A tightly integrated broadcast-
age solution that enables EVS ing, Belgium, the company has offices specific suite of applications
customers to easily and cost- throughout the world. After careful evaluation of storage solu-
effectively add new formats, tions, EVS chose to OEM the NetApp
channels, and operator seats The Challenge
E-Series storage system. Housed in
Provides enterprise-class Storage for the center of mission-
critical broadcasting operations EVS’s own industrial design and tightly
reliability to help enable unin- integrated into its broadcast solutions,
terrupted operation during You can now watch TV programming
a wide range of storage options is avail-
broadcast playout on a multitude of devices, from 80˝ 3D
able. For larger installations, where cen-
LCD TVs to mobile phones. As a result,
tralized storage is a requirement, EVS
viewers’ habits have changed and
uses the NetApp E5400 controller with

2. both the 4RU 60-disk and 2RU 24-disk
SOLUTION COMPONENTS
enclosures. The NetApp controllers
attain 3GB/s mixed read/write video NetApp Products
transfer speeds and allow each enclo- NetApp E7900 storage systems
sure to support a significant number of
NetApp E5400 storage systems
news-editing clients. In time-sensitive
applications such as program high- NetApp E2600 storage systems
light packaging, EVS employs 10Gb/s SANtricity® Storage Manager
Ethernet connectivity to help enable
high-bandwidth, uninterrupted transfer Protocols
of data between the storage and the 10GigE
editing client. Fibre Channel
For latency-sensitive applications, such
as broadcast playout, EVS relies on
NetApp storage enclosures with EVS’s
own proprietary RAID stack on server
hardware.
The OEM partnership with NetApp
has enabled EVS customers to benefit
from the best of both worlds: industry-
leading broadcast production applica-
tions and enterprise-class storage. The
combination delivers overall reliability,
predictable performance, and easy
scalability.
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