SGL, a media and entertainment content archive and storage management software
provider, has introduced Direct Connect for use within the SGL and Avid ISIS shared
storage environment. Direct Connect allows users to quickly transfer high resolution
material providing significant benefits when working with longer form content.
The advent of HD, 4k and 8k formats has made a huge difference in terms of clarity
of image but the sheer size of files can cause bottlenecks, reducing transfer times
and hindering system performance. Now, using Direct Connect, clips or sequences
over several GBs in size can be archived and retrieved significantly faster, as can
shorter clips with high bit rates such as HD trailers and commercials.
“Traditionally content passed between SGL FlashNet and Avid ISIS is sent via Avid’s
archive provider. In the past when file sizes were smaller this worked well but for
high-resolution file-based content this method has some performance implications.
Direct Connect enables FlashNet to connect directly to the ISIS storage system
using 1/10 GB Ethernet,’ explains Lee Sheppard, SGL’s director of Product
Management.
SGL has partnered with Avid for the past 11 years and the companies continue to
deliver solutions that are required by today’s modern broadcast facilities. SGL
FlashNet, the engine that drives Avid Interplay Archive, provides customers around
the world with an integrated MAM/PAM archive solution. Built around a clustered
architecture, which allows virtually infinite scalability, FlashNet provides Avid users
with an archive regardless of size, from the smallest TV station to the largest
network operation.
