Al Jazeera English, a new English-language news and current affairs channel, has taken delivery of the Harris NEXIO XS server platform for its new news headquarters in Doha, Qatar.
The NEXIO XS server platform at Al Jazeera English consists of four NXS3600HDX servers with more than 30 terabytes of storage. Al Jazeera English retains the video feeds in high definition on a rotating basis for up to one week as a means of backup using the NEXIO XS server. The NEXIO XS server allows Al Jazeera English to record four incoming 24-hour agency feeds simultaneously. The NEXIO XS server can record and output high definition and standard definition where required.
“We have had significant success in the Middle East across the whole Harris broadcast product range and particularly with our NEXIO servers, and the installation at Al Jazeera English substantiates that success,” said Dave Dougall, vice president of sales for Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) for the Harris Broadcast Communications Division. “This deal was won against stiff competition and demonstrates that our strategy to provide local sales and support for our customers in the region is a winning formula.”
NEXIO XS is a line of HD/SD transmission servers featuring integrated, software-based codec technology and software-driven up-, down- and cross-conversion to provide the ultimate in reliability, scalability and format flexibility. The NXS3600HDX servers connect to the NEXIO™ storage area network (SAN), providing broadcasters with a streamlined infrastructure for producing, processing, distributing and managing SD and HD content. The NEXIO XS family provides an extensive range of I/O types, integrated applications support and encode options, including Long GOP MPEG-2, DV25, DV50 and IMX. Front-panel access to boot and media drives, as well as USB and IEEE-1394 (FireWire) ports, makes NEXIO XS easier to use and service than other available options.
In addition to cable, ADSL, mobile platforms and satellite, Al Jazeera English is available as a live stream to the one billion users of the Internet worldwide.
Al Jazeera English is the world’s first English language news channel to be headquartered in the Middle East. Broadcasting from within the Middle East, looking outwards, Al Jazeera English sets the news agenda and acts as a bridge between cultures. With unique access as the channel of reference for Middle East events, and with broadcast centres strategically placed around the world in Doha, Kuala Lumpur, London and Washington D.C., Al Jazeera English balances the information flow from south to north, providing accurate, impartial and objective news for a global audience from a grassroots level, giving voice to different perspectives from under-reported regions around the world.
Al Jazeera English is building on the groundbreaking heritage of its sister Arab-language channel, Al Jazeera, which was responsible for changing the face of news within the Middle East, now extending that fresh perspective from regional to global.
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