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To: J Fieb who wrote (914)12/6/1998 3:55:00 PM
From: J Fieb  Read Replies (2) of 4808
 
FC presence at IBC mentioned in TVeurope

tvbeurope.com

Fibre Channel (FC) had a good showing, with several exhibitors offering
established product including storage cluster solutions (arrays of magnetic hard
disks) based on FC (no more fat SCSI cables that fall out!), plug in PCI cards
and other interface products. Check out the Media Interface Adapters (MIAs)
if you need to run FC a long way over fibre.

Architecturally, the ambiguous nature of Fibre Channel (is it a network, is it an
interface, is it both?) has led to an increasing number of users benefiting from
being able to physically de-couple their sizeable disk clusters from the units
housing both the codecs and the software running the user interface. Of course,
the logical extension of this idea would be to also remote the codecs to a
central 'engine room'. Operators then become left with merely a PC on which
to host the man/machine interface. Some broadcasting organisations, for
example TV4 in Sweden and Central TV in UK, have already embraced this
concept, helped by product from OmniBus Systems (see their work with
ENPS and Quantel).

SDTI as a point to point topology was also building a following, looking to
appeal to owners of large established SDI routing apparatus. The sizeable data
payload space available within the SDI video standard -- plus the large installed
base of compatible broadcast plant -- will make SDTI a real competitor to FC
for applications that do not demand a 'network' in the IT sense of the word.
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