Ecuadorean students master production skills with Optical Disc Archive
One of Latin America’s most advanced audio-visual educational centres has invested in Sony’s Optical Disc Archive to give students experience of real-world professional media production.
- Leading Latin American educational institution needed professional tools to help students learn media production skills
- Required flexible, easy to use media storage, archive and management solution
- Sony ODA-based library with ODS-L30M master unit, ODS-L100 expansion module and two ODS-D77F fibre channel drives
- Library integrated with media production and asset management solution by VSN
- Students can study advanced AV production techniques and practices using broadcast-grade hardware and systems
- Easy to use solution with flexible administration and system management
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A leader in AV education
The Arts University of Ecuador (Universidad de las Artes) was created by the Ecuadorian government to offer students a high quality educational centre for cinema, television and radio production, with the aim of enhancing the country’s artistic and cultural development. Today it is considered one of the most advanced audio-visual production centres in Latin America.
Giving students access to professional media production tools
The university needed an easy-to-administer system, with a friendly interface for non-expert users and capable of adequately managing the student’s permissions and tasks.
The aim was to provide students with professional tools, adapted to the broadcast market in order to give them experience of the environments that they will face in their professional careers. The company selected to implement a solution for the university was VSN, a specialist in media solutions and a Sony Optical Disc Archive alliance partner.
A state of the art solution
VSN’s VSNEXPLORER media and business process management solution, with 70 licences for concurrent users is integrated with the university’s Avid Media Composer, Final Cut Pro and Adobe Premiere editing systems. The university has also deployed a Dell EMC Isilon high-level storage redundant system, formed by four X200 nodes each with 24 TB storage capacity, and eight 10GbE ports for editing video in HD, 2K and 4K.
Media storage is provided by an Optical Disc Archive library solution by Sony with 130 slots, comprising an ODS-L30M master unit with ODS-L100 expansion module and two ODS-D77F fibre channel drives. The complete system is managed by VSN’s Spider orchestration platform that offers a redundant virtualised environment with four VSN Workers General servers for media transfer between different environments, four VSN Workers Transcoder dedicated servers for proxies creation, and three VSN Workers Carbon Coder servers dedicated for transcoding and format unification.
Flexible administration and management
The platform offers efficient user and access permit management, with control over user actions such as writing/reading/cancelling and the defining of storage quotas. The data communication system is formed by a 10GbE switch that links each server, with two redundant switches with 48 GbE ports connected to client stations.
The whole system was deployed in a short timescale to meet the university’s demanding deadlines, with personnel receiving on-site training to get the best from VSN’s tools.
Students now can study, practice and learn the most advanced techniques in audio visual content management in a safe, stable and professional environment, receiving high education with the latest standards available in the broadcast market.
