With the completion of the first phase, all new locally produced M-Net and SuperSport programming is being ingested directly onto Ardendos Ardome media asset management system, and then hosted on a near-online storage system, the company says.

The Ardome system also manages and transfers the content from the near-online system to a state-of-the-art robotic library and retrieves the information when needed, the company adds.

One of the benefits of the Ardome system to M-Net is said to be that it not only ingests all tape information, but also allows metadata logging, providing support for live as well as time-shifted and post-logging operations. The metadata aims to enable users to browse, search and retrieve specific material via the Ardendo search engine.

When producers are preparing inserts for transmission before a live sporting event, they can, for example, do a search on a specific player or event during a previous match, instantly retrieve the archived footage, edit the package and then broadcast that footage to viewers watching the game, all without ever handling a tape, explains Andrew Cole, systems sales manager at Concilium Technologies.

Ardendo is a Swedish-based company owned by Vizrt, and represented locally by Concilium.