GD, Was hoping to see something about the E-port standard this month. If you come across anything let us know.
NAB is coming up in April...
1/17/2000, Burbank, CA - Leitch Technology Corporation (TSE:LTV)—a leading provider of high quality digital video and audio solutions to the broadcasting, telecommunications, cable and Internet industries—today announced that it has reduced storage cost and more than doubled storage capacity for its VR400™ and VR300™ series video servers with the introduction of 50GB Fibre Channel drives.
Leitch VR400™ and VR300™ server systems with 50GB drives are now available for purchase. The new FCR-302 disk arrays hold ten 50GB Fibre Channel disk drives. Combined with Fibre Channel and Leitch's exclusive RAIDsoft™ drive management system, these drives expand capacity to over three terabytes while giving multiple channels and users access to all video. Customers can now realize an immediate reduction in the cost of storage from (U.S.)$183.50 per Gigabyte for earlier drives to (U.S.)$95 per Gigabyte for the new drives.
"Leitch's new drives—the only 50GB drives currently used in a Fibre Channel storage area network—represent Leitch's most cost effective storage area network to date," says Nathan Simmons, Leitch Product Manager for VR servers. "As the leader in and first to offer Fibre Channel storage area network technology for servers, Leitch offers customers unprecedented performance and flexibility in its VR servers." Possible configurations range from small 2-channel commercial insertion to over 30-channel news, editing, program play-out and media asset management systems.
Leitch Technology Corporation provides leading-edge solutions to store, switch, distribute, convert, and otherwise process high-quality audio and video signals. Applications for Leitch products span the broadcast, telco, cable, post production, internet, and business-to-business markets. Leitch is headquartered in Toronto, ON, Canada with other key offices in Virginia, California, the United Kingdom, Brazil, Japan, Hong Kong, and Australia. Leitch's VR Server customers include CNN, Canal+, TeleMadrid, CITY-TV, and CBS NewsPath News. |
