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InMedia

ATTO Demos End-to-End
High Performance Media
Workflow Solutions

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TTO Technology, Inc. has
showcased its extensive portfolio
of connectivity solutions designed to
create a complete high performance
infrastructure from workgroup through
enterprise, from content creation
through delivery at the 2015 NAB Show.
As the market leader in Thunderbolt
storage connectivity solutions, ATTO
displayed its full range of Thunderbolt
2 Desklink devices, which enable
creative professionals to connect small
form factor platforms and mobile
workbooks into high performance
storage and networks, including SAS/
SATA, Fibre Channel or Ethernet
infrastructures.
ATTO carried out two live
demonstrations of "Bring Your Own
Workbook", a portable workbook
solution
using
Thunderbolt
2
connectivity
technology
that
provides media professionals seeking
uncompromised access to storage

with a mobile opportunity for data
migration from field to studio for
both Mac and Windows. The first
demo streamed video from a NetGear
ReadyDATA NAS and NetApp FAS
through an ATTO ThunderLink NS
2102 to an Apple Mac Pro running
Avid Media Composer. The second
demo showed an ATTO ThunderStream
SC 4808 connecting to an HP ZBook
17 mobile workstation to both a
CI Design JBOD containing HGST
Mainstream Endurance SSDs and an
HP StorageWorks Ultrium 3000 LTO5
SAS Tape drive. IOMETER benchmark
tests showed how the ThunderStream
maintains a high level of throughput,
something it does consistently, even
during drive rebuilds.
In a third demonstration, ATTO
previewed its FastFrame 40GbE
Network Interface Cards (NICs) with
a Dell Precision T7910 workstation
to stream uncompressed 4K footage

from a Facilis Terrablock running
DaVinci Resolve. Releasing later in
2015, the new NICs combine near-line
speed throughput with best-in-class
latency to enable high-performance
applications such as uncompressed 4K
& 8K multistream and video editing.
Used in combination with ATTO's
FastFrame 10GbE offering, 40GbE
NICs provide a comprehensive solution
for integrating production workflow
with a facility's IT infrastructure. All
FastFrame products are designed for
the more rigorous data transfer and
reliability requirements of storage
applications.
ATTO also showcased the new
FibreBridge 7500 Storage Controller
which serves as a platform for creating
highly
virtualised
infrastructures
for applications like Media Asset
Management. With less than four
microseconds of latency, the 7500
can be used to build out high

ATTO's ThunderLink NS 2102

performing solid state drive-based
storage solutions with a lower cost
of ownership. Additionally, the
FibreBridge can facilitate metro
clustering architectures, allowing
remote groups to collaborate on realtime production.
As the connectivity provider for
the Adobe Anywhere solution, ATTO
showed how it provides the complete
infrastructure with Celerity Fibre
Channel Host Bus Adapters and
FastFrame 10GbE NICs. With Adobe
Anywhere's enterprise collaborative
workflow platform, editors, visual
effects artists and other video
professionals can use local or remote
networks to simultaneously access,
stream and edit remotely stored files.
Optimised for extremely low latency
and high-bandwidth transfers, Celerity
HBAs and FastFrame NICs are designed
to handle the larger workloads that
Adobe Anywhere demands.
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