Front Porch Digital selected by Belarus TV

Front Porch Digital, the Broadcast and Media Division of Incentra Solutions has announced that it was selected by Belarus TV, the new Belarusian channel, to implement a digital video archive powered by DIV Distributed Intelligent Versatile Archive DIVArchive.
Created by the National State TV and Radio Company of the Republic of Belarus for Russian- and Belarusian-speaking audiences abroad, international satellite TV channel Belarus TV started broadcasting on 1st February, 2005. Belarus TV is a state-owned, non-commercial television channel broadcasting abroad providing information about Belarus. Belarus TV is accessible from Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Armenia, Uzbekistan, and Moldova, as well as from Poland, Denmark, Romania, Turkey, Iraq, and Iran.
Front Porch handled the installation of its product in partnership with the Lithuanian company TVT, which was chosen as integrator of the new system. The architecture of the system is structured around two Omneon Spectrum video servers, an IBM tape library, and an automation system from SGT.
“Belarus TV’s selection of DIVArchive reaffirms Front Porch Digital’s dominant position in the archive management market,” said Rino Petricola, managing director and vice president, Front Porch Digital International. “The Belarus TV installation adds another Eastern European reference to our client roster. Eastern Europe is an emerging market, and moving forward we expect to capture significant market shares in that region. We are very pleased to have Belarus TV as a customer, and we will support them to make sure they get the level of functionality they expect to service their own customers.”
(CD/SP)