Omneon MediaGrid Sweeps Awards at NAB2006
May 3, 2006 3:20 PM
The new MediaGrid active storage system from Omneon Video Networks has swept the key awards at NAB2006, receiving an NAB AIM (Award for Innovation in Media) Award, Television Broadcast NAB2006 Top Innovation Award, TV Technology STAR (Superior Technology Award Recipient) Award, and Broadcast Engineering Pick Hit honor.
The NAB AIM program allows NAB show attendees to recognize pioneering technologies that display significant advancement through boosting efficiency, increasing user flexibility and creativity, or lowering cost. The Omneon MediaGrid also was recognized with a 2006 STAR Award from the editorial staff of TV Technology. The STAR Award celebrates and showcases the preeminent technological innovations available to the broadcast industry, based on editors' review of a variety of products, their technical applications, and their overall contribution to the industry.
Products or technologies that receive the Television Broadcast Top Innovation Award are nominated by industry professionals and selected unanimously by the editorial team of Television Broadcast magazine. These awards are presented in recognition of Technology Insight for the Bottom Line, having combined innovative technical achievement with workflow and cost efficiencies. The BE Pick Hit Awards are presented to the most technologically innovative products that promise to have a significant impact on the broadcast and film industries.
"We are honored to have received such extensive recognition from both NAB attendees and from well-respected publications serving the broadcast industry," said Geoff Stedman, Omneon vice president of worldwide marketing. "The potential of MediaGrid to deliver affordable, powerful, and easy-to-manage digital media storage is unique to the industry, and we look forward to further success as the system continues to be deployed in broadcast facilities around the world."
The first content storage system of its kind, the new MediaGrid active storage system is designed specifically for the demands of working with large digital media files within broadcast and video production facilities. Combining grid storage and grid computing through the use of multiple intelligent, interconnected-yet-independent storage servers, the new system dramatically enhances the efficiency of digital media access for users and applications across the entire broadcast workflow. The MediaGrid system provides centralized shared storage that is scalable in capacity, bandwidth, and media processing power.
More information about MediaGrid and the complete range of Omneon systems is available online at www.omneon.com.
