Yes Network Chooses Software Generation

Software Generation
Ltd (SGL), a provider of content archive and storage management software
for media and entertainment, announced the sale of a FlashNet system to YES
Network, LLC home to the Yankee baseball and New Jersey Nets basketball
teams.

The sports broadcaster has moved from an analog to a file-based workflow based
around its Avid production environment.

YES Network selected SGL FlashNet as an integral part of its
digital upgrade providing backup, archive and restore functionality. The
network’s traditional analog workflow was time and labor-intensive and
restricted fast access to material.

Reji Mathew, YES Network’s director IT explains: "The workflow has changed significantly. Material is now ingested using
our MediaKive system, digitized from tape and is immediately available for the
editors to restore from our LTO environment. If they have access to the file
that they need they simply restore it and SGL takes care of the rest from the
back end."

The behind-the-scenes integration between SGL FlashNet, Avid Interplay and
SpectraLogic is significant; editors can now access archived content as easily
as nearline, allowing YES to create master copies of material, which are backed
up and held securely in the LTO archive.

Doug Wynn, VP Sales Americas says: "Editors
at YES can access archived or nearline content as required, and SGL FlashNet’s
seamless integration with Avid and SpectraLogic means that it doesn’t matter
which environment the material is stored in. SGL FlashNet’s Open System
architecture creates true transparency of content to all departments"

Mathews adds: "It’s
really seamless to the end user, or in this case the editor who is the end
user. They don’t care if material is coming from a hard disk, nearline storage
or from tape; they’re simply bringing it back online."

The new workflow has seen YES increase productivity and
turn-around time for editing, a benefit for a sports broadcaster. The
network has already digitized important historical material from its back
catalog and will continue to digitize further material over the coming
months.