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Canal Extremadura’s IT infrastructure revamp with Quantum Setting its sights beyond traditional radio and TV services, Canal Extremadura is in the midst of a large-scale digital transformation. Headquartered in Mérida, Spain, the company aims to become a public multimedia corporation that produces rich, captivating content for a wide variety of platforms. BY QUANTUM TO ACHIEVE its digital transformation, the Spanish television network needed to dramatically improve its IT infrastructure, as it lacked the flexibility to support the evolving business and scale with its fast-growing volumes of multimedia content. The company’s existing archive was a major obstacle as it had reached capacity and expanding it was not financially feasible. As Francisco Reyes, technical chief at Canal Extremadura, explains, “We ran out of room in the tape library and had to migrate some video to a NAS just to free up space.”
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Canal Extremadura’s new archive solution needed to integrate well with its preferred media asset management (MAM) system from Dalet, which is an essential part of the company’s media production and post workflow. The new archive also needed to provide a seamless transition from the existing environment, which contained a vast volume of old files in legacy media formats.
The pursuit for a scalable archive Choosing a new solution was not a decision Canal Extremadura took lightly. As Reyes explains, “We tend to keep solutions for a very long time—we had been
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