
Systems integrator since 1984
Technology that moves businesses forward.
Cinthamani designs, integrates and supports the systems behind broadcast and media, enterprise data, Apple, audio-visual, cloud and security. One partner from the first drawing to everyday operation.
Founded in Chennai. Four decades of broadcast and IT integration.
Products supported across our technology partners.
Practices, from broadcast to cloud, under one engineering team.
Apple Authorised Reseller for enterprises and institutions.
01What we deliver
Six practices. One integration team.
Each practice has its own specialists and partners. Projects that cross them, such as a studio with its archive, or a campus with its devices and rooms, are designed as one system.

Broadcast & Media
Live production, newsrooms, post-production, shared storage, asset management and archive.
- Live and studio
- Post
- MAM
- LTO archive

Enterprise Data Infrastructure
Data that stays findable, protected and ready for AI, from flash to tape.
- AI and GPU data
- Active archive
- Tiering
Apple Enterprise
Devices, zero-touch deployment, device management and lifecycle support.
- Procurement
- MDM
- Support

Audio Visual
Meeting rooms, boardrooms, auditoriums, video walls and command centres.
- Collaboration
- Auditoriums
- Control

Cybersecurity & Cloud
Cloud infrastructure, security, backup and disaster recovery, and managed services.
- Cloud and GPU
- Security
- Backup and DR
Cable TV Playout
Channel Magick, our own playout system: a complete cable channel in one box.
- Scheduling
- Graphics
- Live
02Enterprise Data Infrastructure
Your data, organised for AI and kept for decades.
Spectra Logic storage and Arcitecta Mediaflux data management move data between flash, disk, object storage and tape by policy, keep it searchable by its metadata, and stage it back to GPU systems when work needs it.
Data is created
Instruments, cameras, sequencers, simulations and business systems.
File and object, any volumeMetadata and policy
Every file indexed and searchable; policies decide where it lives.
Arcitecta MediafluxThe right tier
Recall and stage
Find by metadata, restore to the performance tier on demand.
Policy-driven stagingAI and GPU workloads
Training, analysis and research on complete, verified datasets.
GPU clusters, HPCSimplified reference architecture. Each design is sized to the customer's data and access patterns.
03Our own product
Channel Magick. A cable TV channel in one box.
Cinthamani's playout system schedules, plays and brands a channel from a single server: SD, HD and UHD playout, multi-layer graphics, tickers fed from RSS, live chroma key and reports for advertisers.
- SD / HD / UHD playout
- Master and scheduler playlists
- L, U and I-shape ad overlays
- RSS tickers and scrolls
- Live chroma key
- Election and flash-news graphics
- Excel, PDF and Word reports
04Specialist portfolio
Five platforms at the centre of media workflows.
Supplied, integrated and supported by Cinthamani in India, with certified engineers for each platform.
DDP SAN
Ethernet SAN for editing, ingest, playout and rendering with one shared namespace.
Product page Tape and objectSpectra Logic
Tape libraries from a single rack to exabyte scale, with object storage gateways.
Product page Data managementStorageDNA
Moves media between storage tiers and keeps archives searchable.
Product page Asset managementeMAM
Browser-based media asset management for ingest, review, approval and delivery.
Product page File transferRaysync
High-speed transfer of large media files between sites and teams.
Product page05How it fits together
Workflows, not boxes.
We design around the path your content and data take. These three are the ones we build most often.
Production
Studio and field cameras, multi-camera switching, replay.
Cameras / switchers / replayIngest
Live capture and card offload, transcoded to house formats.
Multi-channel ingest / transcodeShared storage
Every editor works from the same media at full speed.
DDP SANEditing and finishing
Edit, grade, graphics and audio suites on shared projects.
Edit suites / graphicsDelivery
Playout, OTT and IPTV encoding, and file delivery.
Playout / encoders / RaysyncProduction storage
Active projects on the shared SAN.
DDP SANAsset management
Metadata, proxies and search for every asset.
eMAMNearline and object
Finished work moves off the SAN by policy.
StorageDNA / object storageLTO archive
Long-life, air-gapped copies on tape.
Spectra LogicRetrieval
Search, restore partial files, back to the edit.
eMAM / StorageDNADigitisation
Tape, film and legacy formats captured to files.
Digitisation servicesIndexing
Metadata, transcripts and shot logs make it findable.
MAM / loggingPreservation
Two copies, one off-line, verified on a schedule.
Spectra Logic / LTORestoration
Clean-up of picture and sound for reuse.
Restoration suitesReuse
Archives back on air, online and licensed.
Playout / OTT06Customer projects
Systems in daily operation.
Case studies are published only with each customer's approval. The three below show the format.

A news channel's studio, gallery and playout, commissioned as one system
Customer, scope and results to be confirmed.

A post-production house moves its finished work to an LTO archive
Customer, scope and results to be confirmed.

Forty meeting rooms on one standard, managed from one console
Customer, scope and results to be confirmed.
07Technology partners
Partners we design with.
Six featured platforms and the manufacturers behind our broadcast, data, Apple and cloud work. All technology
08About Cinthamani
Engineers first. Since 1984.
Cinthamani began in Chennai as a computer company and grew with India's broadcast industry. Today the same engineering team designs studios, storage and archives, deploys Apple fleets and builds the rooms and networks around them.
- Design, supply, installation, training and support from one team.
- Certified engineers for each specialist platform.
- Headquartered in Chennai, serving customers across India.
09Start a project
Tell us what you are building.
A solutions engineer replies within one working day with questions, a call slot or a first outline.
- Sales
- sales@cinthamani.com
- Support
- support@cinthamani.com
- India
- +91 44 2815 3842
