The BBC World Service has installed Exanet's ExaStore 2008 Clustered NAS System to support news production and archiving for the production platform and play-out platform-multimedia workflow.

“ExaStore’s infrastructure supports collaboration, which is critical, as more than 125 people can potentially be accessing the system simultaneously,” says Exanet's Elsa Shweid. “ExaStore offers the BBC an easy-to-manage system that guarantees high-performance and scalable capacity, all within the same infrastructure.”

BBC will store more than 6,500 hours of real-time high-resolution video and low-resolution proxy media on its ExaStore storage system. At the same time, ExaStore is providing a bandwidth of more than 600MB/s, with the speed supporting individual access as well as rendering and media conversions running in the background.

With ExaStore, the BBC is enjoying increased resource efficiency with immediate access to new digital material. Massively scalable and cost-effective online archiving completely eliminates the need for tape, reducing time and material costs. ExaStore’s simplified management using a single IP address allows the IT team to centrally configure and manage all storage across every workstation and server concurrently, saving them time and effort.