NETIA Grows Middle East Business With Arabic-Language Radio-Assist Installation for Radio Riyadh

CLARET, France - Feb. 25, 2009 - NETIA today announced that the company's business in the Middle East broadcast market has grown significantly over the past year, with key installations of the company's television and radio content management solutions. Among these high-profile projects is an installation for Radio Riyadh, Saudi Arabia's national radio station.

NETIA, together with its local partner Jamal Jaroudi Group, completed the second phase of this project in a full installation incorporating 15 on-air and recording studios, along with extra studios that serve as backup in the case of an emergency; a total of 65 editing workstations; and six archiving workstations. The interface for the complete Radio-Assist system at Radio Riyadh is in full Arabic.

This instance of a Radio-Assist installation features NETIA's Media Management , which handles the circulation of data (metadata and sound data) to ensure that files are always available at the right place, at the right time, for different activities, such as production, broadcast, and archiving. Radio Riyadh's archives rely on NETIA's Archive software, which directs media storage on SAN hard disks.

NETIA guarantees the reliability of Radio Riyadh's archives with its DB-Share software, which ensures systematic synchronous redundancy of all the metadata the system produces and protects the consistency of database content. Because databases are automatically synchronized, either may serve as a backup in the event of a fault. The system is unusual in that its stored audio assets contain embedded metadata, rather than maintaining that information in a separate file. For staff at the station, this approach allows easy retrieval of data SAN-based archives.

Read the previous new about Radio Riyadh.