MRVC News After the Close:
USC School of Cinematic Arts Partners With MRV for HDTV-Capable Optical Network
MRV Provides Optical Backbone Network Capable of Handling End-to-End HD Signals
CHATSWORTH, Calif., Feb. 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- MRV COMMUNICATIONS, INC. (Nasdaq: MRVC), a leading provider of products and services for out-of-band networking, WDM and optical transport, metro Ethernet, fiber optic components, 10GE and other service aware networking products, today announced its exclusive optical digital video transport technology has been selected by USC's renowned School of Cinematic Arts for research in high-definition television (HDTV) networking.
The network is based on MRV's Digital Video SFPs, the only optical transceivers that enable HDTV signals to be transported across an enterprise backbone network. The mile-long network connects the School of Cinematic Arts to the off-campus Robert Zemeckis Center for Digital Arts, allowing uncompressed HD to be transmitted between buildings and enabling some new uses of HD technology. For example, the school is experimenting with a distributed production method combining images from HD sources in different locations across the fiber optic network.
This can be used to instantly shoot 'green screen' shots, in which one camera shoots an actor in front of a green screen while another shoots a backdrop in another location, and those images can be composited together in real time.
'We're seeing an increased interest in HD student productions, and being able to transmit multiple uncompressed HD signals over optical fiber with extremely low latency will extend the reach of our production and communication capacity,' said Richard Weinberg, USC research associate professor. 'MRV provided us with an entire solution complete with an HD signal transport system via WDM that enables us to send and receive up to four HD optical signals.'
'The USC film school continues to push the limits of digital and HD video capabilities, and in so doing, requires increasingly complex and cost- effective technology,' said Noam Lotan president and CEO of MRV. 'We are equipped with products to provide solutions versatile and advanced enough to meet its needs for HD production and transport.'
MRV's Digital Video SFPs use a patent-pending encoding algorithm based on the EG-34 industry standard to overcome the 'pathological' signal types that are common with HDTV signals, and which can't be interpreted by enterprise- class optical networking equipment. They can enable transport of uncompressed SDI (SMPTE 259M and 344M) and HD-SDI (SMPTE 292M) data over an optical network using off the shelf optics.
Because of their convenient form factor, the MRV Digital Video SFPs can be installed in fiber-optic systems from a wide variety of manufacturers including optical cross connects and wave division multiplexers, which have adopted this MSA transceiver standard.
By combining the transceiver with MRV's own Fiber Driver or Lambda Driver(R) wave division multiplexing (WDM) systems and optical cross connect, production facilities can create a wide range of HD networking systems.
About MRV Communications, Inc.
MRV Communications, Inc. ('MRV') is a leading provider of network equipment and services, and optical components. MRV's networking business provides equipment used by commercial customers, governments and telecommunications service providers, and includes switches, routers, physical layer products and out-of-band management products as well as specialized networking products for aerospace, defense and other applications including voice and cellular communication. MRV's optical components business provides optical communications components for metropolitan, access and Fiber-to-the- Premises applications, through its wholly owned subsidiary LuminentOIC, Inc. MRV markets and sells its products worldwide through a variety of channels, including a dedicated direct sales force, manufacturers' representatives, value-added-resellers, distributors and systems integrators. MRV also has operations in Europe that provide network system design, integration and distribution services that include products manufactured by third-party vendors, as well as internally developed and manufactured products. Publicly traded since 1992, MRV is listed on the NASDAQ Global Market under the symbol MRVC. For more information about MRV and its products, please call (818) 773-0900 or visit our websites at www.mrv.com and www.luminentoic.com.
About the USC School of Cinematic Arts cinema.usc.edu
Since 1929, the USC School of Cinematic Arts has fueled and mirrored the growth of entertainment as an industry and an art form. The school offers comprehensive programs in directing, producing, writing, critical studies, animation and digital arts, production, and interactive media, all backed by a broad liberal arts education and taught by leading practitioners in each field. Its more than 10,000 alumni are among the world's most distinguished animators, scholars, teachers, writers, directors, producers, cinematographers, editors, sound experts and industry executives. Since 1973 not a year has passed without an alumnus or alumna being nominated for an Academy Award.
Media Relations USC School of Cinematic Arts
MRV Communications, Inc. John Zollinger
David Rodewald (213) 740-9514
(805) 494-9508 jzollinger@cinema.usc.edu
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