Aveco

AUTOMATE ANY WAY YOU WANT

Aveco is a manufacturer of broadcast automation and news production automation, MAM, newsstudio-in-a-box and integrated playout solutions. For over 24 years, Aveco has been known for reliability, innovation and its customer-oriented approach. More than 300 broadcasters worldwide use Aveco solutions on-air 24 hour a day.

The product line of Aveco can be used as an end-to-end solution reflecting the business architecture and workflows of the customer or as individual products to fit each customer need. Aveco provides its customers with several key values, these are: • Stability – A decade after purchase of its products, Aveco is there to help and guide. • Independence - As an independent manufacturer, Aveco glues all equipment brands into seamless workflows without any corporate policies - the customer is always in control. • Staying at the cutting edge – The company listens to its customers and helps them grow and adopt new business models and technologies - from on-air to online, linear to social media, highend to news-studio-in-a-box, the only integrated studio automation package available in the market.

Capex and Opex Optimisation Broadcasters (including news channels) generate profit in an industrial process and Aveco solutions can help in the following profitable ways: • High-end automation can use low-cost

devices to achieve high-end output. • By optimising device utilisation, lower number of devices need to be purchased. • Low initial investment means low

AMC cost. • Automated workflows and reuse of assets require lower number of operators. • Automation assisted live news production allows for less people, all the way down to a single person to run the newscast.

Two-dimensional Range of Solutions The Aveco product line creates a twodimensional matrix that guarantees the right-sized solution for any customer.

The first dimension is the form factor - Aveco solutions work in Cloud, in the Box or in the Rack.

The second dimension is functionality

Aveco, end-to-end solution.

- Aveco systems produce live news and studio events, control broadcasting of TV channels, manage media assets throughout the whole lifecycle from ingest through postproduction to playout and archiving. They implement regional ad insertion, integrate social media and feed assets to web sites.

Aveco can provide end-to-end solutions - individual products can also be selected as standalone or to integrate with third party devices.

Aveco Products ASTRA is a line of MAM and automation systems that provide functionality such as live news production, MCR playout, ingest, MAM, regional ad insertion and disaster recovery.

Redwood is a family of integrated products that include news-studio-in-abox and an integrated MCR playout device. ASTRA Studio 3 The news production automation provides several advantages: • More graphics, better on-air look, more viewers. • Less human introduced errors. • PCR-MCR integration. • Automating additional services such as social media or web publishing. • Radical reduction of operational cost. ASTRA Studio 3 is the only multi-studio news production automation available. It allows easy assign rundowns to individual studios and move rundowns from studio to studio, share devices across studios as well as combine studios to produce major events.

ASTRA MCR The master control playout automation from Aveco manages single TV channel as well as multi-channel facilities, centralised as well as distributed across the globe. Redundancy options include N+M, mirrored devices as well as mirrored broadcast chains. Any third party device or system can be integrated into the workflow.

ASTRA MAM The MAM from Aveco enables facility-wide or multi-facility desktop management for all high-res and low-res content. The ASTRA MAM database links to all other storage devices to provide a central point for media management. A rules-based workflow engine automates media manipulations and transfers QC operations between multiple systems to simplify day-to-day operations. Integration between MAM and other products of Aveco is simple – they are all components of one end-to-end solution

without any integration effort. They also use the same database.

Redwood Studio Aveco is the world’s first company offering the news-studio-in-a-box product. It combines world-class automation software and media asset management with integrated playout hardware that includes a 4ch HD video server, 32 layers of graphics and eight input production switcher capability with six channels of DVEs all in one box. It is a cost-effective way to put a news or studio show on-air quickly and when run by a single operator. Redwood Studio is a great solution for small studios within a multi-studio facility where all studios traditionally equipped as well as those with Redwood are controlled by the same ASTRA Studio automation, with the same GUI, the same training and the same user experience. Redwood Studio is ideal for a network of regional news studios or as a standalone unit.

David Vidlicka, VP Sales MENA.

Redwood Play is an integrated MCR playout solution which offers two major advantages: • Very rich graphics features. • Ability to integrate to any third party device or system. It can be used as a standalone playout, as well as for niche channel playout in a multi-channel facility under ASTRA control. Technological Platform Automation servers are made of industrial grade components from world renowned manufacturers designed for long-term reliability. The operating system is a mission critical real-time operating system QNX implemented for critical applications where failure is not an option, such as air and space, security and defence, medical, energy, automotive or telecommunications.

The automation software consists of modules that can be used as LEGO bricks to build a customised solution. Modules run in memory protected address spaces and a problem in one module is always isolated - it will not crash the entire server. Software modules are hot-swappable, allowing for replacement, upgrade or expansion while the system is on-air. This also permits easy and convenient evolution of the system and support. The client software runs on MS Windows, Apple OS X or Linux.

CONTACT

Aveco Inc. 6538 Collins Avenue Miami Beach, FL 33141, USA Tel: + 1 (818) 292-1489

AVECO s.r.o. Veleslavinska 39 | 162 00 Prague 6, Czech Republic Tel: +420 235 366 707 Tel: +420 778 003 011

David Vidlicka VP Sales MENA Tel: +971 55 8367 850 Website: www.aveco.com