BillyG,
When I'm not working on CUBE/DIVI I study up on FC(fibre channel)
and SANs. Yest. SGI. made an announcement on FC sans and here is a short excerpt from their partner Philips DVS regarding FC SANS .............
Film image data is the lifeblood of high-end post production. Ensuring data availability
and integrity is essential to business survival," said Steve Russell, marketing manager,
film imaging products for Philips DVS. "Our applications demand flexibility, so ways to
consolidate storage, reduce storage management overhead, and ensure that vital film
image data is safeguarded are critical. Our customers look to Silicon Graphics and
its partners to provide leading technologies such as Fibre Channel-based
switched fabrics to address the requirements of digital media and enterprise
SANs
The rest is here if anyone wants to read it.....
biz.yahoo.com
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TVeurope mag said this about the evolving architecture...
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).
I take this to mean that the MV40s will sit next to the FC SANs.
Any broadcast engineers who can comment on the potential role?
Thanks in advance. |
