Based in Moscow, Channel One is Russia’s most widely viewed television station, featuring 30 news bulletins per day, international hits, and its own productions, which include some of Russia’s most popular feature films. At Channel One, DIVArchive middleware enables a unified CSM system, allowing content to be ingested, stored, managed, converted, and made available to newsroom, editing systems, and digital media workflow applications.

At Channel One, the DIVArchive solution consists of one Manager, which maintains the database, manages application requests, and controls storage resources; and eight Actors, which move content between media servers and storage in a Sun StorageTek SL8500 tape library with eight T10000 tape drives. As configured, the DIVArchive can sustain throughputs as high as 7,680 Mbps.