La Télé, the leading regional television network serving the French-speaking cantons of Vaud and Fribourg, completed a comprehensive storage and production-workflow upgrade in collaboration with GB Labs and IMC Technologies.

La Télé

  • La Télé, the leading regional television network serving the French-speaking cantons of Vaud and Fribourg, completed a comprehensive storage and production-workflow upgrade in collaboration with GB Labs and IMC Technologies.
  • Products: FastNAS F-16 NitroMAX, ECHO 16

GB Labs & La Télé

La Télé, the leading regional television network serving the French-speaking cantons of Vaud and Fribourg, completed a comprehensive storage and production-workflow upgrade in collaboration with GB Labs and IMC Technologies. This strategic enhancement ensures that La Télé continues to deliver timely political, economic, societal, sports, and cultural news.

The Challenge

As a long-standing GB Labs customer, La Télé had relied on its previous GB Labs NAS solution for high-performance, reliable media storage. However, escalating production complexities and the demands of live broadcasting made it clear that a refresh was overdue. 

The Solution

At the heart of the new infrastructure lies a GB Labs FastNAS F16 NitroMAX server, boasting 160 TB of ultra-fast shared storage. IMC's Media Asset Management (MAM) system (Incite) orchestrates all file workflows - ranging from external SDI and live ingest to memory-card transfers, media management, and transcoding - directly onto the FastNAS. 

This new system offers La Télé:

  • High-Speed Editing: 25 Non-Linear Editing (NLE) suites connect over 10 GbE and 25 GbE to the FastNAS, editing natively in MXF XDCAM 50 Mbps. Editors leverage both Adobe Premiere Pro and the Incite Media Producer interface to work in parallel on shared footage without conflict or delay.
  • Efficient Nearline Archiving: GB Labs’ ECHO 16 nearline system automatically archives daily content, ensuring that even older footage remains immediately accessible.
  • Integrated Newsroom Preview: La Télé’s Octopus news production system taps into Incite’ high-resolution files and proxy previews. Journalists can browse, review, and approve content directly from the newsroom interface—dramatically streamlining story turnaround.
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“GB Labs storage is fast, easy to use and very efficient. The F16 NitroMAX handles all the tasks that are needed simultaneously,”
said  François Vittoz, Technical Director at La Télé.

Why Choose GB Labs NAS storage and IMC’s Incite MAM?

Performance, reliability, and scalability were non-negotiable for La Télé. The FastNAS NitroMAX platform delivers exceptional throughput and enterprise-grade data protection, while its modular design allows future expansion at a reasonable cost.

Incite MAM, IMC’s flagship solution for ingest, editing, archiving and retrieval from GB Labs storage, is central to the workflows.

About IMC Technologies

Based in Geneva, IMC Technologies is at the forefront of digital media innovation. Its flagship Incite MAM solution transforms media-asset management with:

  • Automated Project Setup: Instantly generates organized folder structures and project files.
  • Real-Time Synchronization: Keeps media assets up to date and integrates seamlessly with Adobe Premiere Pro.
  • Seamless Adobe Premiere Pro Project Management: Directly manages Premiere project files and sequences within Incite, unifying editorial workflows.
  • Distributed Rendering: Schedules remote renders to accelerate timelines.
  • Smart Cleanup: Automatically purges obsolete files to optimize storage utilization.
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