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ATTO Demos End-To-End
Media Workflow
Solutions At IBC
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TTO Technology, Inc. showcased
its
extensive
portfolio
of
connectivity solutions designed to
create a complete high performance
infrastructure from content creation
through delivery at IBC 2015.
"We are seeing dramatic shifts in
the media & entertainment industry
as production becomes integrated
with the rest of IT infrastructure,"
said Tom Kolniak, Director of
Products at ATTO Technology, ahead
of the show. "As the only storage
and network connectivity company
capable of delivering a complete high
performance
infrastructure
from
workgroup through enterprise, ATTO's
extensive product line will be featured
in 16 workflow demonstrations by top
manufacturers who use our technology
to enable their solutions."

IBC 2015 marked the official launch
of ATTO's FastFrame 40GbE Network
Interface Cards (NICs). FastFrame
40GbE NICs combine nearline speed throughput with
best-in-class latency to enable
high-performance applications
such as uncompressed 4K and
8K video editing. The industryleading throughput and ultra-low
latency provided by ATTO's new NICs
is enabled by Remote Direct Memory
Access (RDMA) over Converged
Ethernet (RoCE), a feature that uses
zero copy data transfers to permit
efficient data movement between
servers and storage and free up host
CPUs for editing, compositing and
rendering.
ATTO also announced the release
of Xtend SAN v4.0 at IBC. ATTO's Mac

RTW'S CLC Software
Implementation
Debuts At IBC 2015

R

TW, a leading vendor of visual
audio meters and monitoring
devices for professional broadcast,
production,
post-production
and
quality control, is pleased to announce
the unveiling of its implementation
of Continuous Loudness Correction
(CLC) Software as both a plugin and
standalone software at this year's IBC
show in Amsterdam.
First introduced in 2014, the CLC
software, developed and patented
by Institut für Rundfunktechnik
(IRT), has been implemented into
RTW's broadcast focused equipment,
expanding the company's line of
products and supporting the industry
needs regarding loudness control.
CLC technology allows users to
constantly adapt the level of audio
they are working on, against a given

program-loudness value, along with
a definable loudness range in realtime with minimal obstacles. The CLC
software is capable of handling DAW
audio, live audio and files. It may be
operated with the most common DAW
software products with Mac and PC
and now also as a standalone software
tool. With CLC technology, RTW clients
are able to maintain accordance with
EBU-R128 and other global loudness
standard specifications.
"We are constantly updating our
products to satisfy our growing
customer base and serve their needs,"
says Andreas Tweitmann, CEO of RTW.
"Partnering with IRT has improved our
audio meters and monitoring devices,
enabling us to reach a broader market,
while also helping our customers
conform to set standards. We are
happy to continue our implementation
of the Continuous Loudness Controller
software in collaboration with IRT."

ATTO
Technology's
ThunderLink

OS X iSCSI initiator has
been the market standard for OS
X for over 10 years, and it displays the
company's ongoing commitment to
developing Ethernet/iSCSI products.
Xtend SAN V4.0 brings a major refresh
to the product, ensuring optimal
performance of block-based iSCSI
transfers in OS X environments.
In a live demonstration, ATTO
used a FastFrame 40GbE NIC in a
Dell Precision T7910 workstation to
stream uncompressed 4K footage
from a Facilis Terrablock running
DaVinci Resolve. When used in
combination with ATTO's FastFrame
10GbE offering, 40GbE NICs provides
a comprehensive solution to integrate
production workflow with a facility's IT
infrastructure. All FastFrame products
are designed for the rigorous data
transfer and reliability requirements of
storage applications.
As a market leader in Thunderbolt
storage
connectivity
solutions,
ATTO also showcased its full range
of Thunderbolt 2 Desklink devices
at IBC. Desklink devices provide
creative professionals using mobile
workbooks with sufficient performance
for 4K environments as well as
uncompromised access to SAS/
SATA, Fibre Channel and Ethernet
storage and network infrastructures.
The mobile opportunities provided
by Desklink additionally enable data
migration from field to
studio for

both Mac and Windows
platforms.
ATTO presented a live
demonstration of "Bring Your
Own Workbook," a portable solution
using Thunderbolt 2 connectivity
technology. In the demo, an ATTO
ThunderStream
SC
4808
was
connected an HP ZBook 17 mobile
workstation to both a CI Design JBOD
containing Toshiba SSDs and an HP
StorageWorks Ultrium 3000 LTO-5 SAS
tape drive. Iometer benchmark tests
confirmed how the ThunderStream
maintains a consistently high level of
throughput even during drive rebuilds.
Other products ATTO displayed
at IBC included Celerity 16Gb/8Gb
Fibre Channel and ExpressSAS
12Gb/6Gb SAS/SATA Host Bus
Adapters (HBAs). Celerity HBAs are
engineered to optimise data transfer
using a combination of features
such as ATTO's MultiPath Director
multipathing driver and Config Tool
management and monitoring tool.
ExpressSAS HBAs are optimised for
low latency, high-bandwidth data
transfers and provide a wide variety
of port configurations and RAID levels.
Both product lines include Advanced
Data Streaming (ADS), a feature
found in all ATTO HBAs that manages
I/O latency for high-performance
applications.

ATTO's
FastFrame
NQ41Network
Interface Card
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