Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Technology Stocks : Aahh...iNEXTV (AXC) The NEXT Thing! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Paul Lee who wrote (3475)	4/23/2001 9:12:14 AM
From: Michael Olds	Respond to of 4169

British Telecom and Ampex Collaborate On Video Archive System as Part of Digital Content Management System BUSINESS WIRE - April 23, 2001 09:04 LAS VEGAS, Apr 23, 2001 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- BT Broadcast Services, a division of BT Ignite, a broadband IP and data business provider, and Ampex Data Systems, a wholly owned subsidiary of Ampex Corp. (AMEX:AXC), are working together to provide a DST-based automated archive library for BT's new digital content management solution. Ampex Data Systems' automated archive libraries are designed for broadcast facilities looking to digitize and automate their programming or news operations. Most importantly, the archive configuration selected by BT can manage more than 185,000 hours of 12 Mbps video equating to more than a petabyte of data storage. Also announced today at NAB2001, BT Broadcast Services is demonstrating an Ampex DST system in their booth as part of its network centric digital content management solution designed to enable media owners to exploit valuable video assets by making them available to users worldwide. "We provide the highest-quality video server archives in the world, and with BT Broadcast Services as a pre-eminent service provider to global broadcasters we can now validate our extremely powerful solution for a worldwide client base," said John Hennessy, director of video and broadcast marketing for Ampex Data Systems. BT Broadcast Services' new service -- called BT MediaReel -- offers encoding, storage, cataloguing and streaming over the Internet at narrowband, midband and broadband bit rates. Content management services are now available from a number of key regional media centers across Europe and in the United States, including a new Los Angeles facility. At the heart of the automated library is an innovative DST tape drive designed to read and write 300GB DST data cartridges. The high-performance tape drive not only searches for data at more than 2700 MB/sec but also boasts a fast 20 megabytes-per-second data transfer rate, and can restore a one hour 12 Mbps video program from archive to video server in less than five minutes. As television news and master control operations rely more and more on digital video technology, they inevitably need to store thousands of hours of file-based digitized video program content. The video server archival storage agreement with BT Broadcast Services clearly reaffirms Ampex Data Systems' commitment to innovation and to maintaining its market leadership position.