City of Austin upgrades City Hall facilities with Sundance Digital

The City of Austin is planning a move to a brand new City Hall and also undertaking a complete overhaul of its television production, audio/visual, and information technology facilities, including a 4-channel Sundance Digital FastBreak Automation package at the heart of the system.
The City will utilise FastBreak Automation, a robust, scaleable and frame-accurate controller of video servers, routing switchers, VCRs, and other television peripherals, for a variety of applications. It will automate the programming for Austin’s municipal access channel that feeds two cable systems, as well as control media content on three interactive video displays in the lobby, an outdoor plaza video display with digital signage, and streaming video of meetings, musical performances, and other events over the Internet for citizens to watch.
“Sundance Digital came to us with impeccable references,” said Ronny Mack, IT Project Manager and Design Engineer for the City of Austin. “Our technical consultant and our systems integrator, The Whitlock Group, advised us that Sundance was the only automation provider that could handle a project of this dimension. The City of Austin needs a great deal of automation to support its new television production, master control, and audio visual systems and we believe that we’ll be successful with FastBreak Automation.”
The Sundance Digital automation suite will include the Sundance Archive Manager to place content in near-line storage; MediaCacher to batch digitise quantities of tape into the video server; and MirrorMover to supervise the transfer of media files between servers. An array of 360 Systems Image Servers and a Storbank Network Attached Storage Server will provide primary digital storage, recording, and playout under FastBreak Automation control.
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