Indiana Public Broadcasting Stations (IPBS), a consortium of eight PBS TV stations and eight NPR radio stations serving communities across Indiana. PBS is a private, nonprofit corporation, founded in 1969, whose members are America’s public TV stations -- noncommercial, educational licensees that operate more than 350 PBS member stations and serve all 50 states, Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam and American Samoa. PBS reaches nearly 109 million people through television and over 28 million people online each month.
IPBS was looking for a networking solution to efficiently share and manage broadcast content across all 16 member stations. The solution was supposed to facilitate the convergence of baseband video and audio, compression, and IP multicasting for statewide signal contribution, distribution and management on national basis.
The solution is based on Harris Broadcast products and includes the Selenio media convergence platform for HD/SD video networking, Intraplex IP Link 100 and 200 codecs for audio networking. The management solution is based on Harris Broadcast Magellan NMS which offers diagnostic abilities and centralizes control and monitoring across multiple locations. Additional customer-specific components were integrated into Magelan NMS to allow network-wide view of the system, from essential real-time data interaction and trend analysis to alarms management.
Magellan NMS streamlines management of the entire IPBS workflow, ensuring smooth and efficient movement of high-quality video and audio media over the network. Video and audio consolidation into a single user interface greatly simplifies the distribution process amongst the stations. The entire solution positions IPBS for the future with a configurable, expandable baseband/IP video platform that can be adapted to new standards and operational requirements; and interoperate with third-party technology.
