ADIC Libraries Chosen by AT&T Digital Media Centers; Storage Needed as Broadcasting Shifts from Control Rooms to Computers.Business/High Tech Editors REDMOND, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 1, 2000 Advanced Digital Information Corporation (Nasdaq:ADIC) announced today that AT&T Digital Media Centers have selected ADIC AML AML - A Manufacturing Language automated libraries as the primary repository for programming content in the company's new digital broadcast facilities. The AT&T Digital Media Centers, which today support 79 networks and more than 600 individual channels, will use the AML robotic storage libraries as key elements in their conversion from traditional broadcast control rooms to broadcasting content directly from computer disks. "Technology advances associated with digital content are creating exciting productivity gains for the broadcast industry," explained Gary Traver, Senior Vice President Video Services, AT&T Digital Media Centers. "Using digital content and centralized storage devices like the AML libraries allows us to pre-stage hours of fully assembled program content on optimized video servers and broadcast it. The new system will streamline our workflow and let us provide more and more specialized programming without additional expensive control room facilities or teams of difficult-to-find broadcast engineers." "AT&T Digital Media Centers are on the leading edge of combining digital content and computer technology to revolutionize the broadcast industry," according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Bill Britts, ADIC executive vice-president of Sales and Marketing. "Today, they are creating systems to serve content directly from disk, eliminating the need to load tapes in real time to support a broadcast. In the near future the technology will offer additional possibilities for the expansion of transmitted content into a wide variety of new media paradigms, including personal channels and web-based delivery systems." The AT&T Digital Media Centers deliver content storage and transmission for a wide range of leading broadcast channels and networks, including iNDEMAND, Discovery Communications -- Animal Planet, (oxygen), BBC America BBC America is an American television network, owned and operated by BBC Worldwide, which was launched on March 29, 1998, available on both cable and satellite. It is one of two BBC branded channels broadcast in the United States, the other being global news channel, BBC World. and TVGames. The first of the new server based Refers to hardware or software that runs in the server. Contrast with client based. digital broadcast centers will be located in the AT&T Digital Media Centers Denver facility. Additional centers are located in Hong Kong, Los Angeles, and New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of . The ADIC family of AML storage libraries provide scalable automated management for information storage needs that require capacities of up to 70,000 cartridges in a single library. AML libraries automate the use of multiple media technologies in the same library, including support for DTF (Digital Tape Format) A high-performance magnetic tape technology from Sony that was based on the helical scan transport and cartridge shell of Sony's highly successful 1/2" Digital Betacam. , DLT (Digital Linear Tape) A magnetic tape technology originally developed by Digital for its VAX line. The technology was later sold to Quantum, which makes it available to other manufacturers. DLT uses half-inch, single-hub cartridges similar to IBM's 3480/3490/3590 line. , 3590, AIT, VHS (Video Home System) A half-inch, analog videocassette recorder (VCR) format introduced by JVC in 1976 to compete with Sony's Betamax, introduced a year earlier. , BetaCAM, 3480/3490 tape formats as well as optical formats. About ADIC With an installed base of more than 60,000 automated libraries, innovative storage management software, Fibre Channel Storage Area Network (SAN) solutions, and Network Attach Storage (NAS (1) See network access server. (2) (Network Attached Storage) A specialized file server that connects to the network. A NAS device contains a slimmed-down operating system and a file system and processes only I/O requests by supporting the popular ) appliances, ADIC is a leading device-independent storage solutions provider to the open systems marketplace. The Company offers a broad range of products designed to enhance organizations' ability to store, protect, manage and use their rapidly growing network data. ADIC's automated storage products are available through a worldwide sales force and a global network of resellers and OEMs, including Dell, Fujitsu Siemens and IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) . Further information is available at http://www.adic.com. ADIC is a registered trademark and AML is a trademark of Advanced Digital Information Corporation. All other trade or service marks mentioned in this release should be considered the property of their respective owners. |
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