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To: J Fieb who wrote (2527)	1/6/2001 3:39:56 PM
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IBM builds storage network for satellite-radio company By Bloomberg News January 4, 2001, 11:05 a.m. PT ARMONK, N.Y.--IBM said it has built the broadcast industry's largest digital storage network, for satellite-radio provider XM Satellite Radio. Terms weren't disclosed. The storage-area network, or SAN, will hold 22 terabytes of data, to store and deliver digital radio programs, IBM spokeswoman Jeanne Orfinik said. That's enough to hold more than 2 million music compact discs, or the equivalent of more than twice the printed material in the Library of Congress, she said. XM Satellite Radio, based in Washington, D.C., is expected to launch its first satellite on Monday and begin broadcasts this summer. Consumers with special receivers, including those built into new cars, can receive up to 100 digital channels anywhere in the United States. XM's primary competitor, Sirius Satellite Radio, of New York, has said it will begin widely selling a similar 100-channel service in the second quarter. It has three satellites in orbit. XM's SAN consists of 66 IBM FastT500 storage units and four IBM server computers. France's Dalet Digital Media Systems made the software to run the system. Corporations have installed up to 80 terabytes of digital storage capacity in storage-area networks, Orfinik said. A typical SAN makes stored data available from any workstation on a corporate network. IBM said last month it will install a 50-terabyte SAN for Seitel, which sells seismic data to the oil and gas industry. Sirius' initial storage network totaled 4.2 terabytes. Copyright 2001, Bloomberg L.P. All Rights Reserved.