Established in 1998, Omneon Video Networks is a company that draws upon a wealth of video and computer network experience for its core personnel - people with extensive knowledge in television broadcast design, engineering and production. Based on a clear understanding of how media, storage and facility operations interrelate, Omneon's products are designed specifically as a video server infrastructure for companies that produce and distribute audio and video content for television and the Internet. Omneon's Media Server System provides the most cost-effective and scalable video server infrastructure for the professional television industry, where customers are implementing new revenue streams and channels for digital applications.

With its open architecture, Omneon's server system supports an impressive array of third-party applications for control and transmission, media management, archiving, and collaborative production. This scalable and format independent system allows media to be shared among many users and applications. Users can easily ingest content, view content, move content between storage and the associated applications, and play-out content manually or under automation control. As a modular system designed with a scalable, distributed architecture, users have maximum flexibility in their ability to scale channels, bandwidth and storage capacity in small or large increments as desired. Users can simultaneously utilize both real-time (isochronous) and non-real-time processes (asynchronous) in one unified system. Omneon's product development is driven by customer need. The system increases broadcasters' operational efficiency by streamlining workflow. The Omneon Media Server System, based on the new MCP 2101 MediaDirector, allows entire facilities to operate from a common storage pool - at an unprecedented price-performance ratio.

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