Das Erste (Germany)

Das Erste („the First“) is the flagship national television channel of the ARD association of public-broadcasting corporations in Germany. Das Erste is jointly operated by the nine regional public broadcasting corporations. Two thirds of the German population (ca. 50 Mio) watch Das Erste.

x-dream-media has supplied Das Erste with its WFM workflow orchestrator and implemented an integration and automation layer for VOD publishing. WFM receives high-level commands from the CMS Sophora, controls transcoding via Harmonic WFS, Cambria FTC and lastly, ARD’s self-developed transcoder renders pictures and uploads the files for publishing Akamai’s CDN.

Category: 

• Transcoding 
• Workflow Management

Products: 

• Cambria FTC 
• Harmonic WFS 
• Harmonic Carbon Coder 
• WFM

Services: 

• Workflow Analysis 
• Design Implementation 
• 3rd party Integration

Vendors: 

• Harmonic 
• Capella Systems 
• x-dream-media