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Announcing the CLADE 2006 Keynote Dr. Terry Harmer Gridcast - a Next Generation
Broadcasting Infrastructure? Media broadcasting is a fast moving
sector that requires distributed, dynamic and highly reactive management of
broadcast content and supporting technical resources. The scale of content
broadcast daily is large and growing with new formats being introduced and
the number of broadcast channels and transmission platforms increasing. A
broadcasting company is by its nature distributed and sources broadcast
content and uses resources from around the world. Broadcasting is undergoing
rapid technical change with the closed, specialist tools and hardware being
replaced by commodity IT tools and hardware. A grid infrastructure offers the
potential to address many of the technical challenges that broadcasters
face--such as, the secure wide area distribution of high volume content; the
secure remote access of high value technical resources; the integration of
specialist devices, equipment and applications; and the support of
people-intensive and craft-based workflows. And, at the same time addresses
the economic challenges by delivering a cost-effective, resilient, extensible
and reactive infrastructure in a rapidly changing broadcasting environment. Dr. Harmer will address the
development of Gridcast, a prototype broadcasting grid developed in
conjunction with the BBC, which has been deployed in the field for two years.
He will address what grid ideas bring to the development of a secure
high-performance broadcasting infrastructure and the evolution, deployment
and management of grids in a dynamic and highly demanding real-time
environment such as broadcasting. Dr. Terry Harmer is Technical
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