Signiant's DMDMS (digital media distribution management solutions) products are now qualified to interoperate with the latest version (6.5) of the Thomson Grass Valley Aurora HD editing and tapeless production suite of products, the company said at IBC.

The Thomson Grass Valley Aurora platform includes a scalable, tapeless HD production suite of tools for news, sports and other applications. Signiant's DMDMS helps media and entertainment companies manage, secure, automate and accelerate the movement of digital media within and between locations to form a complete, file-based digital media supply chain. Customers of Thomson Grass Valley Aurora products can now use Signiant's DMDMS to manage and automate the movement or distribution of video content—from acquisition to production to play-out.

By deploying Signiant in the Thomson Grass Valley production environment, and adding new "GXF File Send Types" to the list of target destinations in the Aurora options configuration, prioritized and network accelerated files can be moved among Aurora and K2 media servers for play-out on the LAN or WAN.