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To: HPilot who wrote (1765)	2/14/1997 1:58:00 AM
From: Gus	of 3256

Michael Jordan, Ampex, Kodak(Cinesite) and Time-Warner.... www5.zdnet.com "...Warner officials believed they could exploit the massive computing power that the two divisions had between them and tie in Cinesite. Cinesite, which combined film footage of the actors with 3-D and animated cell images, has facilities to scan film, read it into digital format and record the digital images onto film. The company typically receives its work on backup tape via couriers, which can be a very time-consuming task, especially on projects such as "Space Jam" that require close collaboration between animation artists and compositors. Luckily, Cinesite and Warner Animation used the same ASX-1000 ATM backbone switches from Fore Systems Inc. to internally link their own high-performance Silicon Graphics Inc. Challenge servers. So officials decided that connecting their systems to directly transfer the digital images was worth a shot. Both were using the same Ampex Corp. DST tape backup systems, so there was a backup if the link didn't work, according to Aylsworth. But because the deployment was one of the first commercial uses of a wide-area SONET OC-3 link and was untested, the rollout was daunting...."

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