Packet Engines Announces Corporate Participation at NAB99
BusinessWire, Friday, April 16, 1999 at 13:24
LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 16, 1999--NAB99, Las Vegas,
Nevada, April 19, 1999 - Packet Engines, an Alcatel (NYSE:ALA)
company and a worldwide leader in gigabit networking solutions, is
issuing a press advisory today announcing corporate participation in
seven booths at the NAB99 event.
Minerva Systems, Inc. - Booth S6659
Minerva Systems will demonstrate a Broadband IP Video Network
using the Minerva VNP product. The VNP(TM) (Video Network Platform)
is a video processing platform designed to deliver broadcast-quality
video to IP networks. Nine live video streams will be IP Multicast
and available for playback in a variety of applications; seven from
within the booth, a feed from the Miralite NAB booth (S4844) and a
live feed from Maryland over the DirectPC satellite. The streams
will be used to show a number of real-life business applications such
as Distance Learning and Training, Video-on-Demand, Business
Television, Learning-on-Demand, Video Cataloging. Other vendors
participating in the booth demonstration will be Silicon Graphics,
StellarOne, SourceNet, Digital Media Solutions, Hughes DirecPC,
Digital Editing Solutions, Virage and Miralite.
The backbone of the network will be the Packet Engines' PowerRail
2200 Routing Switch, a high performing non-blocking routing switch,
with wire-speed, packet-by-packet routing of nearly 15 million
packets-per-second for IPv4, IPv6 and IPX (RIP, RIPv2, BGP-4, OSPF,
SAP) traffic. The Miralite booth will be connected to Minerva's
booth using a PowerRail 1000 Routing Switch, which supports
wire-speed routing at nearly 7 million packets-per-second for IP
traffic.
Sony - Booth L16730
Sony Corporation is a leading manufacturer of audio, video,
communications and information technology products for the consumer
and professional markets. Sony will demonstrate a new product,
ClipEdit(TM), allowing journalists and reporters to view material for
which they are writing copy. ClipEdit makes a low resolution proxy
copy of the full resolution video and distributes it via Ethernet on
a 5Mbps stream to provide reasonable viewing quality and full audio.
The writers can edit the clips and adjust the audio levels to prepare
the clips for broadcast.
Two PowerRail 1000 Routing Switches will be used to distribute
the streaming proxy material. Packet Engines' G-NIC II Gigabit
Network Interface Cards will be installed in the proxy streamservers
enabling a streamserver PC to handle multiple clients.
Viewgraphics - Booth S4341
Viewgraphics is a leading manufacturer of digital media products
widely used by professionals in the television broadcast and film
industries. The demonstration will incorporate Viewgraphics' DTVnet
gateway product to run D1 serial digital video and compressed MPEG-2
video streams over Gigabit Ethernet IP networking to show
collaborative video production and broadcast solutions spanning
local, metropolitan, regional and wide area networks. The PowerRail
1000 Routing Switch will be utilized as the network backbone for this
demonstration.
Grande Vitesse Systems - Booth S8753
Grande Vitesse is an integrator, specializing in high
performance/customized graphics servers, RAID storage, Network
solutions and powerful workstations. Their booth demonstration will
use the Packet Engines' PowerRail 1000 Routing Switch to carry the
large video and animation files between the GVS9000 video editing
system and the Metropolis 3500 video server, equipped with Packet
Engines' G-NIC II Gigabit Ethernet Network Interface Cards. This is
a complete non-linear workflow system, including high-end video
editing stations, animation and modeling stations and video capturing
equipment.
In addition, Packet Engines' equipment can also be seen at the
following vendor booths: Alcatel - S7228 and Optivision - S8644.
About Packet Engines
Packet Engines, an Alcatel company, was founded in 1994 to
develop networking solutions delivering gigabit performance and
mission-critical reliability for enterprise, ISP, and service
provider networks. The company offers a complete suite of
high-performance gigabit networking solutions including the PowerRail
family of routing switches, the FDR Gigabit Ethernet hub, and G-NIC
II Gigabit Ethernet network interface cards. Packet Engines is now
providing these solutions directly and via a variety of industry
partners.
On December 14, 1998, Packet Engines was acquired by
Alcatel (NYSE:ALA), a world leader in telecommunications systems and
equipment. Alcatel operates in over 130 countries providing complete
solutions and services to operators, service providers, enterprises
and consumers, ranging from backbone networks to user terminals. For
more information about Packet Engines, visit www.packetengines.com.
For more information about Alcatel, visit www.alcatel.com
EDITORS' NOTE: For more information on the companies Packet
Engines is teaming with at NAB99, visit their World Wide Web sites.
For Grande Vitesse Systems, visit www.gvsnet.com. For Minerva
Systems, visit www.minervasys.com. For Miralite Communications,
visit www.miralite.com. For Optivision, visit www.optivision.com.
For Sony Electronics, Inc., visit www.sony.com/professional. For
Viewgraphics Inc., visit www.viewgraphics.com.
CONTACT: Packet Engines
Robin Toth, 509/777-7270
robintoth@packetengines.com
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