Broadcast video servers are used to shape flexible on air systems. Integration is a fundamental layer of IT infrastructure, providing connectivity across applications and across platforms. Broadcast video server markets are growing as the broadcast industry changes to adjust to opportunities brought by the Internet and the small screen on wireless handset devices.

Broadcast video servers dominate on air channel adoption. Sports replay and product editing are market driving forces. Integration of servers is a fundamental systems aspect.

Video server technology is being deployed in on air applications across all broadcast segments. Digital systems are vulnerable to lack of security as well as needing to have six nines of high availability, high reliability. New video server systems address these issues by providing solid-state memory to increase reliability. Content owners include television and news stations, but the content originators are extending their position in the market, initiating broadcasting to traditional and nontraditional platforms.

With an anticipated 3.5 billion cell phones in use in the next year worldwide, markets are evolving for broadcast to the small format. Digital content providers are proliferating. They have started using streaming video for news broadcasts and other programs, which include on-air services. Increased use of content management solutions to manage digital assets is expected to strengthen the growth of the digital video on air servers market.

Digital asset management helps operators to effectively manage video server solutions. Systems help manage their assets by archiving digital video files for searching, retrieval and re-purposing. A few specialized competitors dominate broadcast server markets.

Video broadcast server market worldwide revenues at $734.2 million in 2006 were up sharply from $513.4 million in 2005. Markets are anticipated to reach $5.6 billion in 2013. The introduction of media broadcasting in more venues will achieve market growth.

Report Methodology

This reports provides the forecasts in communications, telecommunications, the internet, computer, software, and telephone equipment. The project leaders take direct responsibility for writing and preparing each report. They have significant experience preparing industry studies. Forecasts are based on primary research and proprietary data bases. Forecasts reflect analysis of the market trends in the segment and related segments. Unit and dollar shipments are analyzed through consideration of dollar volume of each market participation in the segment. Market share analysis includes conversations with key customers of products, industry segment leaders, marketing directors, distributors, leading market participants, and companies seeking to develop measurable market share. Over 200 in-depth interviews are conducted for each report with a broad range of key participants and opinion leaders in the market segment.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. BROADCAST VIDEO SERVER MARKET DESCRIPTION AND MARKET DYNAMICS 1-1
1.1 Delivery Of IP-Based Multi-play Services 1-1
1.2 Broadcast Communications Hardware And Software Solutions 1-3
1.2.1 Trend Of Broadcast Media To Digitizing Content 1-4
1.2.2 U.S. Digital Standard “ATSC” 1-5
1.2.3 European-Standard Digital “DVB-T” Transmission 1-5
1.2.4 Mobile Television Market 1-5
1.3 Video Distribution and Networking Solution 1-6
1.3.1 Video Servers Used For Mission-Critical, First-Response Scenarios 1-7
1.4 Carrier Class IP TV Content Delivery Platforms 1-7

2. BROADCAST DIGITAL ON AIR VIDEO MARKET SHARES AND MARKET FORECASTS 2-1
2.1 Broadcast Digital On Air Video Server Market Aspects 2-1
2.1.1 Broadcast Segment Digital On Air Video Applications Systems 2-3
2.1.2 Leveraging Market Shifts 2-4
2.2 Broadcast Digital On Air Video Market Shares 2-5
2.2.1 EVS XDC – Digital Cinema 2-8
2.3 Digital Video Broadcast Server Market Segments 2-9
2.4 Digital Video Broadcast Server Market Forecasts 2-12
2.4.1 Video Server Market Growth Broadcast Play To Air Market Forecasts 2-14
2.4.2 Video Server Market Growth Broadcast Slow Motion Systems Forecasts 2-15
2.4.3 Video Server Market Growth Broadcast Production Editing Forecasts 2-16
2.4.4 Video Server Market Growth Broadcast Satellite Forecasts 2-17
2.4.5 Video Server Market Growth Broadcast Newsroom / Sports Forecasts 2-18
2.4.6 Video Server Market Growth Outside / Inside Events Forecasts 2-19
2.4.7 US Video Server Market Growth Forecasts 2-20
2.4.8 Noise Reduction / Quick Response / High Reliability 2-22
2.4.9 U.S. FCC HDTV Government Mandates 2-22
2.4.10 HDTV Resolutions 2-23
2.4.11 FCC Mandate Thrust For Widespread Deployment Of Video Servers 2-24
2.4.12 Broadcast Video Server Market Driving Forces 2-26
2.4.13 Broadcast 2-28
2.4.14 Thomson Broadcast & Media Solutions 2-29
2.4.15 Harris Corporation 2-30
2.4.16 Omneon Video Networks 2-31
2.4.17 Avid 2-32
2.5 Live Event and Sports Slow Motion 2-33
2.5.1 EVS Slow Motion 2-33
2.5.2 EVS Camera Angles 2-33
2.5.3 EVS XNet 2-34
2.5.4 Thomson Grass Valley 2-35
2.5.5 Avid Unity Media Network system 2-35
2.5.6 EVS XNet Network 2-36
2.5.7 EVS Quarterly Revenue 2-37
2.6 Broadcast Video Servers Regional Analysis 2-39
2.6.1 EVS Regional Analysis 2-41
2.6.2 Avid Pricing and Availability 2-42

3. BROADCAST DIGITAL ON AIR VIDEO SERVER MARKET PRODUCT DESCRIPTION 3-1
3.1 Avid Technology 3-1
3.1.1 Avid Unity(TM) MediaNetwork 5.0 system 3-1
3.1.2 Avid Liquid family 3-3
3.1.3 Avid Broadcast Products 3-4
3.1.4 Avid MediaStream Automation, Ingest, and Playout 3-6
3.1.5 Avid MediaStream Industry Gold Standard For Reliability 3-6
3.1.6 Avid MediaStream Systems 3-11
3.1.7 Avid Studio Toolkit 3-12
3.1.8 Avid News Production + Editing 3-15
3.1.9 Avid Newsroom Systems + Management 3-18
3.1.10 Avid Media Network Solutions 3-19
3.1.11 Avid Workgroup Solutions 3-19
3.1.12 Avid Promotions, Post, + Long Form 3-19
3.1.13 Avid Storage 3-21
3.2 Thomson Grass Valley 3-21
3.2.1 Thomson Grass Valley K2™ Media Server/Media Client Systems 3-22
3.2.2 Thomson Grass Valley Profile® Server/Storage Systems 3-24
3.2.3 Thomson Grass Valley M-Series™ intelligent video digital recorder (iVDR) 3-25
3.2.4 Thomson Grass Valley Turbo™ intelligent digital disk recorders (iDDRs) 3-27
3.2.5 Grass Valley DVCPRO & DVCPRO50 VTRs 3-27
3.3 Harris Broadcast Radio Solutions 3-28
3.3.1 Harris Broadcast HD Radio™ Solutions 3-29
3.3.2 Harris Products for HD Radio™ Technology 3-29
3.3.3 Harris Studio Design & Systems 3-31
3.3.4 Harris Studio-to-Transmitter Links (STLs) 3-31
3.3.5 Harris Video Networking and Microwave Solution 3-32
3.3.6 Harris Studio-to-Studio Audio Transport 3-33
3.3.7 Harris IP Multiplexers 3-33
3.3.8 Harris MasterLink-IP 3-34
3.3.9 Harris T1/E1 STL 3-34
3.3.10 Harris Network Configuration 3-34
3.3.11 Harris CrossConnects 3-34
3.3.12 Harris SynchroCast 3-34
3.3.13 Harris Multiplexer Channel Modules 3-35
3.3.14 Harris Transmission 3-35
3.3.15 Harris Digital 3-35
3.3.16 Harris Analog 3-35
3.3.17 Harris Exciters 3-36
3.3.18 Harris Solutions for Broadcast Television 3-36
3.3.19 Harris Automation 3-36
3.3.20 Harris H-Class™ D-Series Playout Automation 3-37
3.3.21 Harris mySQL Database And Content Management 3-39
3.3.22 Harris D-Series Playout Automation Ingest Operations features 3-40
3.3.23 Harris D-Series Playout Automation Bus Type Support 3-42
3.3.24 Harris Playout Automation Solutions 3-44
3.3.25 Harris D-Series Playout Automation Content management 3-46
3.3.26 Core Functionality Of Harris D-Series Playout Automation 3-47
3.3.27 Harris H-Class™ ADC Playout Automation 3-49
3.3.28 Harris H-Class™ Broadcast Presentation Manager 3-50
3.3.29 Harris H-Class™ Media Ingest 3-50
3.3.30 Harris Videotek Broadcast Infrastructure 3-50
3.3.31 Harris H-Class Content Delivery Platform 3-52
3.3.32 Harris H-Class Invenio Digital Asset Management 3-52
3.3.33 Harris' H-Class Content Delivery Platform IP TV 3-55
3.3.34 Harris' H-Class Content Delivery Platform Mobile Television 3-56
3.4 Toshiba 3-57
3.4.1 Toshiba ON-AIR MAX™ Multi-Purpose Video Server Advantages Ascribable To Flash Memory Device 3-61
3.4.2 Toshiba ON-AIR MAX™ Multi-Purpose Video Server Advantages Ascribable To Design 3-63
3.4.3 Toshiba ON-AIR MAX™ Multi-Purpose Video Server Advantages 3-65
3.5 Omneon 3-71
3.5.1 Omneon MediaGrid™ 3-71
3.5.2 Omneon MediaGrid Active Storage System 3-71
3.5.3 Omneon Spectrum Media Server Solutions 3-72
3.5.4 Omneon ProBrowse™ System 3-72
3.6 Broadcast Electronics 3-73
3.6.1 Broadcast Electronics AudioVAULT & Radio Automation 3-75
3.6.2 Broadcast Electronics Radio Experience & Message Casting 3-77
3.6.3 Broadcast Electronics Studio/Transmitter - Audio/Data Links 3-80
3.6.4 Broadcast Electronics AM & FM Transmitters - Internet Broadcasting 3-81
3.6.5 Broadcast Electronics Radio & Internet Transmission 3-81
3.7 RedBack Video Servers 3-81
3.7.1 RedBack SmartEdge 3-82
3.7.2 Redback Networks Customer Reference 3-82
3.7.3 RedBack SmartEdge 800 3-83
3.7.4 Redback Multimedia on Demand Components 3-84
3.7.5 Redback Delivery Methods for Multicast Stream 3-87
3.7.6 Redback Dedicated VLAN per Subscriber 3-87
3.7.7 Redback SmartEdge 400 3-89
3.7.8 Redback SmartEdge 100 3-89
3.7.9 Redback Policy Manager 3-89
3.7.10 Redback Element Management System 3-90
3.8 Fujitsu 3-90
3.8.1 Fujitsu KVM switch 3-91
3.9 DigiCaster Broadcasting and Storing Multiple Video Streams: 3-92
3.10 Solution 3-92
3.10.1 D.Co Digitizer 3-95
3.10.2 D.co DigiPlay Digital Video Player 3-97
3.11 EVS Broadcast Equipment 3-99
3.11.1 EVS Instant Tapeless Technology For Live Broadcast Event -- Allows Editing, Highlights And Slomos 3-100
3.11.2 Express Video Supply EVS 3-104
3.11.3 EVS XT2 Server 3-108
3.11.4 EVS Xfile2 Server 3-111
3.11.5 EVS Xstore2 Server 3-113
3.11.6 EVS IPDirector 3-115
3.11.7 EVS XNet Network 3-117
3.11.8 Evs SpotBox - Typical Application Outside Broadcast Production 3-118
3.11.9 Evs SpotBox Live Slow Motion 3-120
3.11.10 EVS SpotBox Camera Angles 3-121

4. BROADCAST VIDEO SERVER TECHNOLOGY 4-1
4.1 Digital Content Delivery Platform 4-1
4.1.1 Grass Valley™ Compression Algorithms 4-2
4.2 Scalable, Interoperable Server Foundation 4-4
4.2.1 Transmission 4-4
4.2.2 Newsroom 4-4
4.2.3 Newsroom Storage System 4-5
4.2.4 RAID Software Management System 4-6
4.2.5 News Flash Networked Editing System 4-6
4.2.6 System Integration 4-9
4.2.7 Processors 4-9
4.2.8 Storage Area Network 4-9
4.2.9 FTP Server 4-10
4.2.10 LLM 4-10
4.2.11 PlayList 4-10
4.2.12 Remote 4-10
4.2.13 Delay 4-10
4.2.14 Clip Sync 4-11
4.2.15 Monitoring And Diagnostics 4-11

5. BROADCAST DIGITAL ON AIR VIDEO COMPANY PROFILES 5-1
5.1 Avid Technology 5-1
5.1.1 Avid Revenue Fourth Quarter 2006 5-2
5.1.2 Avid Technology Revenue. 5-3
5.1.3 Avid Revenue Third Quarter 2006 5-4
5.1.4 Avid / Sundance Digital 5-5
5.1.5 Sundance Digital Presence In Indonesia 5-6
5.1.6 Avid Acquires Sundance Digital, Inc. 5-7
5.1.7 Sundance Digital and Avid Help Broadcasters Transition Into The World Of All-Digital Production5-8
5.1.8 Avid / Pinnacle Systems 5-9
5.2 Bexel 5-9
5.3 Broadcast Electronics 5-10
5.3.1 Broadcast Electronics Products 5-11
5.3.2 Broadcast Electronics Total Radio Solutions 5-12
5.4 Crispin 5-12
5.4.1 Crispin Markets Served and customers 5-12
5.4.2 Crispin Value Proposition 5-14
5.4.3 Crispin Automation Solutions 5-14
5.4.4 Crispin Partners 5-14
5.4.5 Crispin Revenue For Q1 Fiscal 2007 5-14
5.5 D.Co 5-15
5.5.1 D.co Customers 5-16
5.6 Dalet 5-17
5.6.1 Dalet Markets and Solutions 5-17
5.6.2 DaletPlus News Suite 5-18
5.6.3 Dalet Professional Services 5-18
5.6.4 Dalet Customers 5-19
5.6.5 Dalet Main Offices 5-19
5.6.6 Dalet Revenue 5-19
5.7 EVS 5-20
5.7.1 EVS Broadcast Equipment 2006 Revenue 5-20
5.7.2 EVS XDC – Digital Cinema 5-22
5.7.3 EVS Group 5-23
5.7.4 EVS CleanEdit Suite 5-24
5.7.5 EVS Slow Motion – LSM (Live Slow Motion) 5-27
5.8 Florical 5-27
5.9 Harris Corp 5-28
5.9.1 Harris Sales, Traffic & Billing Clients 5-28
5.9.2 Harris Broadcast Communications Segment Revenue 5-29
5.10 MicroFirst 5-31
5.10.1 MicroFirst Engineering - Digital Automation System Solutions 5-32
5.10.2 MicroFirst Modular Design 5-33
5.10.3 MicroFirst Routing Control 5-33
5.10.4 MicroFirst Services: 5-34
5.10.5 MicroFirst Professional Film Target Markets 5-36
5.10.6 MicroFirst Audio Segment Target Markets 5-37
5.10.7 MicroFirst Strategy 5-37
5.11 NVerzion 5-39
5.11.1 NVerzion / Computer Engineering: Problem Solved 5-40
5.12 OmniBus 5-41
5.12.1 OmniBus Global Organization 5-42
5.12.2 OmniBus Innovation 5-43
5.12.3 OmniBus Integration 5-43
5.12.4 OmniBus Delivery 5-43
5.12.5 OmniBus Regional Expansion – 5-45
5.13 Omneon Video Networks 5-45
5.13.1 Omneon Video Networks Server Market 5-47
5.13.2 Omneon Customer Base 5-48
5.14 Pro-Bel 5-48
5.15 RedBack Networks 5-49
5.15.1 Redback SMS 10000 5-50
5.15.2 Redback SMS 1800 5-50
5.15.3 Redback NetOp 5-50
5.15.4 Redback Revenue 5-51
5.16 Thales 5-54
5.17 Thomson Grass Valley 5-54
5.17.1 Grass Valley 5-55
5.17.2 Thomson Grass Valley Revenues analyses are broken down between the three Media & Entertainment divisions - Services, Systems and Technology 5-56
5.17.3 Thomson Grass Valley Strategy 2007-9 5-58
5.17.4 Thomson’s Grass Valley Digital News Production Solutions for the Move to HD News 5-59
5.17.5 Thomson’s Grass Valley / Canopus Acquisition 5-61
5.17.6 Canopus / Thomson Partner to the Media and Entertainment Industries 5-62
5.18 Winnercomm 5-62

List of Tables and Figures

Table ES-1 ES-3
Market Forces For Broadcast Video Servers
Figure ES-2 ES-5
Worldwide Broadcast Video Server Shipments Market Shares, Dollars, 2006
Figure ES-3 ES-6
Worldwide Broadcast Video Server Shipments Market Forecasts, Dollars, 2007-2013
Table 1-1 1-1
IP-Based Multi-play Services
Table 2-1 2-2
Market Forces Pushing On Air Broadcast Video Servers
Figure 2-2 2-5
Worldwide Broadcast Video Server Shipments Market Shares, Dollars,2006
Table 2-3 2-6
Worldwide Broadcast Video Server Shipments Market Shares, Dollars, 2006
Figure 2-4 2-7
U.S. Broadcast Video Server Shipments Market Shares, Dollars, 2006
Table 2-5 2-8
U.S. Broadcast Video Server Shipments Market Shares, Dollars, 2006
Table 2-6 2-10
Worldwide Broadcast Video Server Shipments Market Segments, Play to Air, Slow Motion, Production Editing, Satellite, Outside / Inside Events, and Newsroom / Sports, Dollars, 2006
Table 2-7 2-11
Worldwide Broadcast Video Server Shipments Market Segments, Play to Air, Slow Motion, Production Editing, Satellite, Outside / Inside Events, and Newsroom / Sports, Dollars, 2006
Figure 2-8 2-12
Worldwide Broadcast Video Server Shipments Market Forecasts, Dollars, 2007-2013
Table 2-9 2-13
Worldwide Broadcast Video Server Shipments Market Forecasts, Dollars, 2007-2013
Figure 2-10 2-14
Worldwide Broadcast Play to Air Video Server Shipments Market Forecasts, Dollars, 2007-2013
Figure 2-11 2-15
Worldwide Broadcast Special (Slow Motion) Video Server Shipments Market Forecasts, Dollars, 2007-2013
Figure 2-12 2-16
Worldwide Broadcast Production / Editing Video Server Shipments Market Forecasts, Dollars, 2007-2013
Figure 2-13 2-17
Worldwide Broadcast Satellite Video Server Shipments Market Forecasts, Dollars, 2007-2013
Figure 2-14 2-18
Worldwide Broadcast News Room / Sports Video Server Shipments Market Forecasts, Dollars, 2007-2013
Figure 2-15 2-19
Worldwide Broadcast Outside / Inside Events Video Server Shipments Market Forecasts, Dollars, 2007-2013
Table 2-16 2-20
U.S. Broadcast Video Server Segment Market Forecasts, 2007-2013
Table 2-17 2-27
Broadcast Video Server Market Driving Forces
Figure 2-18 2-39
Worldwide Broadcast Satellite Video Server Shipments Market Regional Analysis, Dollars, 2006
Table 2-19 2-40
Worldwide Broadcast Satellite Video Server Shipments Market Regional Analysis, Dollars, 2006
Table 3-1 3-5
Avid On-Air Graphics Components
Table 3-2 3-7
Avid MediaStream Key Benefits
Table 3-3 3-8
Avid AirSpeed System Benefits
Table 3-4 3-9
Avid MediaStream Functions
Table 3-5 3-11
Avid MediaStream Systems
Table 3-6 3-13
Avid Studio Toolkit v 5.6 Features
Table 3-7 3-16
Avid Streamline Newsroom Operations
Table 3-8 3-18
Avid Streamline IntelliSat Operations
Table 3-9 3-20
Avid Promotions, Post Modules
Table 3-10 3-22
Thomson Grass Valley Broadcast Video Key Features
Table 3-11 3-24
Thomson Grass Valley Profile® Server/Storage System Components
Table 3-12 3-25
Thomson Grass Valley Key Features
Table 3-13 3-28
Grass Valley DVCPRO and DVCPRO50 VTR Components
Table 3-14 3-30
Harris DATAplus™ Content Management Software
Table 3-15 3-32
Harris Studio-to-Transmitter Links (STLs) Modules and Functions
Table 3-16 3-43
Harris D-Series Playout Automation Bus Type Support
Table 3-17 3-51
Harris Videotek Broadcast Infrastructure
Table 3-18 3-53
Harris Live Production Graphics:
Table 3-19 3-57
Harris' H-Class Content Delivery Platform Mobile Television
Table 3-20 3-58
Toshiba ON-AIR MAX™ Multi-Purpose Video Server Functions
Table 3-21 3-59
Toshiba ON-AIR MAX™ Multi-Purpose Video Server Features (2007~)
Figure 3-22 3-60
Toshiba ON-AIR MAX™ Multi-Purpose Video Server
Table 3-23 3-61
Toshiba ON-AIR MAX™ Multi-Purpose Video Server Structural Overview
Table 3-24 3-70
Toshiba ON-AIR MAX™ Multi-Purpose Video Server Positioning
Table 3-25 3-73
Broadcast Electronics Product Portfolio
Table 3-26 3-76
Broadcast Electronics AudioVAULT Key Benefits
Figure 3-27 3-77
Broadcast Electronics AudioVAULT Playlists
Table 3-28 3-78
Broadcast Electronics Radio Experience
Figure 3-29 3-79
Broadcast Electronics Audio Delivery Systems
Figure 3-30 3-80
Broadcast Electronics Studio/Transmitter
Figure 3-31 3-91
Fujitsu KVM Switch
Figure 3-32 3-93
DigiCaster Broadcasting and Storing Multiple Video S
Figure 3-33 3-94
DigiCaster Broadcasting Preview Monitors
Figure 3-34 3-94
DigiCaster Broadcasting Show Maker
Figure 3-35 3-95
D.Co Digitizer
Table 3-36 3-96
D.Co video full service technology approach.
Figure 3-37 3-97
D.co DigiPlay Digital Video Player
Figure 3-38 3-99
D.co Liebert Line Conditioning
Table 3-39 3-108
Next Generation SD/HD Production Server
Table 3-40 3-110
EVS XT2 Server Key features:
Table 3-41 3-114
EVS XT Series Servers Key features:
Figure 3-42 3-116
EVS XT Rear Panels : 4U & 6U configurations
Table 3-43 3-118
Evs SpotBox Key Features
Figure 3-44 3-119
EVS SpotBox - Typical Application Outside Broadcast Production Key benefits:
Table 4-1 4-1
ViBE encoders
Table 4-2 4-3
Grass Valley™ compression algorithms Key Features
Table 4-3 4-7
News Flash Networked Editing System Features
Table 4-4 4-8
News Flash Functions
Table 4-5 4-11
Monitoring And Diagnostics Features
Table 5-1 5-25
EVS CleanEdit Suite Key Features:
Figure 5-2 5-26
EVS CleanEdit Suite Key Features:
Table 5-3 5-34
MicroFirst Engineering Products:
Table 5-4 5-35
MicroFirst Services:
Table 5-5 5-38
MicroFirst Digital Media Content Creation