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To: J Fieb who wrote (1171)	4/20/1999 2:40:00 PM
From: J Fieb	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4808

Tuesday April 20, 10:59 am Eastern Time Company Press Release SANergy SAN-O/S Running On More Than Seventy Video Workstations At NAB Via The SANaganza Thirteen video equipment manufacturers and thirty Fibre Channel SAN equipment manufacturers cooperate to build eighteen SANs around the show using SANergy. LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 20, 1999-- At the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) show here on April 19-22, SANergy software from Mercury Computer Systems (NASDAQ:MRCY - news) is being used on more than seventy video workstations throughout the show. In participation with the ''SANaganza'' sponsored by the Fibre Channel Community, Mercury has provided SANergy software and SAN configuration expertise to enable the construction of eighteen SANs in as many different company's booths around the show. SANergy is enabling file sharing between workstations running applications from thirteen different video equipment manufacturers representing a broad slice of creation tools for the video industry. Included are eight different brands of non-linear digital video editors, a digital audio editor, three special-effects creation and compositing tools, one DVD authoring tool, and six different brands of a new class of product called Video SAN Recorders (VSRs). Anybody know what these things are> SANergy is enabling SANs in 18 booths around the NAB show with mixes of workstations using Sun Solaris(tm), SGI IRIX®, Windows NT®, and/or Mac®OS operating systems. These SANs are built from a variety of products from thirty different fibre channel SAN equipment manufacturers, all members of the Fibre Channel Community. Shipping since February 1999, SANergy 1.5 provides true file-based heterogeneous data sharing among all computers connected to a storage area network. SANergy works on computers using Sun Solaris(tm), SGI IRIX®, Windows NT®, and Mac®OS operating systems. With SANergy, every workstation connected to a SAN can use the same files on the same disks at the same time with no copying or moving of materials and no need for local media storage or servers. SANergy enables corruption-free data sharing across a SAN with full file-level and byte-range locking. All computer-based video applications can benefit from SAN-based data sharing using SANergy 1.5. Small-file/small-I/O operations such as highly-compressed MPEG2 video and digital audio editing applications benefit as much as large-file/large-I/O applications such as uncompressed video and DTV resolution video creation and manipulation. ''The SANaganza at NAB'99 is an excellent forum to spotlight how SAN technology is changing the world of digital media production and distribution'' says Barry Burke, vice president of the Shared Storage Business Unit at Mercury. ''The interoperability of SAN hardware coupled with the heterogeneous data sharing capabilities of SANergy represents a performance breakthrough that is changing the way people use computers across a variety of applications and industries, as evidenced by these exciting demonstrations.'' ''Storage Area Networks (SANs) are the basis for a new video distribution system,'' says Dimitri Chernyshov, Entertainment Marketing Manager for Mercury Computer Systems, Inc's Shared Storage Business Unit. ''SANs empower entire teams of people to focus on the process of creation and creative collaboration rather than the nagging concerns on how to best move digital materials between workstations.'' SANergy is available from a growing community of more than 50 OEMs, resellers and systems integrators worldwide. About Mercury Mercury's Shared Storage Business Unit develops and markets software products that manage the shared access to common storage in heterogeneous environments. SSBU products support high-performance/high-throughput I/O environments such as digital video, digital prepress, and enterprise computing. Other business units of Mercury Computer Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:MRCY - news) produce high-performance image and digital signal computer systems that transform sensor data to information for analysis and interpretation on a real-time basis. Visit Mercury Computer Systems, Inc. on the WWW: mc.com. For more information on SANergy, visit sanergy.com. SANergy is a trademark of Mercury Computer System

To: J Fieb who wrote (1171)	5/17/1999 8:37:00 PM
From: J Fieb	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4808

Some excerpts from the digital television site.... CNN talks about their commitment and vision...... MPEG-2 At CNN: "Systematically Replace Everything" Archiving In the case of the Archive, our strategy is still MPEG-2. However the archive is to be a format-independent data storage system. We will store files in the native format at the highest quality available and then support translation as part of retrieval. In other words, if the file comes in as MPEG, we will store MPEG, but if the best quality is DV that is what will be stored. "We will not only rebuild our existing analog library in a digital form, but we will additionally create a central production storage system with comprehensive content management. This will be the place where all video and data for short-term and long-term use is to be managed and stored. We strongly believe that effective content management and integration of our assets will be our single greatest advancement. digitaltelevision.com FC do your stuff...... It will be this central system that will tie together all areas of CNN and our Interactive production and distributions.