AditiNet Brings Full-Motion Video and Music Online at Near-Line Prices for Media and Entertainment Industries.Business/Technology Editors NAB2000 LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 10, 2000 MediaTurbo Positions Firm for Next Killer Application Killer Application Killer application or "killer app" is a buzzword that describes a software application that surpasses all of its competitors. Notes: The term is sometimes used to describe a type of software. in Storage: Bringing All Static Content Including Full-Motion Video Video transmission that changes the image 30 frames per second (30 fps). Motion pictures are run at 24 fps, which is the minimum frequency required to eliminate the perception of moving frames and make the images appear visually fluid to the eye. Libraries Online AditiNet, Inc., a technology leader in static information Network Accessed 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 ), today announced LANRedi MediaTurbo(TM), which brings thousands of hours of full-motion video and music CDs online at near-line prices. Companies in entertainment, media, and broadcast industries can now affordably provide online access to their media for the entire creative chain - producers, editors, artists, and even clients. With MediaTurbo, advertising agencies, broadcasters, e-tailers, studios, and media departments of Fortune 2000 companies can now cost-effectively move from slow near-line storage to fast hard disk online access for their MPEG (Moving Pictures Experts Group) An ISO/ITU standard for compressing digital video. Pronounced "em-peg," it is the universal standard for digital terrestrial, cable and satellite TV, DVDs and digital video recorders (DVRs). 2, MPEG1, MP3, and streaming content. "We foresee the insatiable appetite for full-motion video and music online as the next killer application that will fuel the growth of the storage business," said Joe Cousins, director, Americas Marketing at Quantum Corporation (Nasdaq: QNTM), a leading manufacturer of storage products. "Until now, one of the main barriers to bringing full-motion video and music libraries online has been the availability and affordability of hundreds of terabytes of networked storage with the throughput to support multi-user access without gaps and jitters jitters 'Butterflies' Psychology An episode of nervousness or anxiety that often precedes a public event; jitters is a type of performance anxiety which may affect actors in a stage production–stage fright or soloist musicians; it may respond to anxiolytics ," said Kanti Purohit, chief executive officer of AditiNet. "With MediaTurbo, we have optimized our solution to take advantage of the static nature of the content. For static content, add-on storage from server vendors is expensive and enterprise storage and SAN are simply overkill overkill Vox populi An excess of anything ." MediaTurbo breaks former price and network throughput barriers by providing low cost network accessed storage with a large data pipe - close to 60 Megabits/second per channel. For example, each channel sustains over 20 simultaneous MPEG1 video playback streams without gaps and jitters. Leveraging market trends such as increased hard disk capacity with higher reliability and lower cost per MB and broad availability of powerful media asset management software, MediaTurbo makes it possible to affordably build and manage large media farms that can deliver MPEG2 and MPEG1 content with out missing a frame. Availability and Pricing LANRedi MediaTurbo is immediately available for volume shipments in standard tower and rack configurations as well as those designed for added portability, scalability, and space-savings. Custom configurations are also available. Prices range from $5,465.00 for 50 GB to $108,430.00 for 1.5 TB. A terabyte holds 456 hours of MPEG2 (vob), 1,248 hours of MPEG1 (mpg), 3,312 hours of streaming video A one-way video transmission over a data network. It is widely used on the Web as well as company networks to play video clips and video broadcasts. Computers in home networks stream video to digital media hubs connected to a home theater. (ram), or 18,504 hours of MP3 (mp3) content. More About LANRedi Turbo LANRedi Turbo products bring static and near-static information online at near-line prices. Nearly 80% of all online information is static or near-static across a broad range of industries. By offloading such information from the servers onto LANRedi Turbo products, companies can free up their general-purpose servers to perform mission-critical tasks faster and speed up file sharing Copying files from one computer to another. See peer-to-peer network, file sharing protocol and file and printer sharing. for everyone on the network. Static information includes historical and reference information such as scanned images, photographs, music, digitized movies, encyclopedia, and digitized books on various media including CDs, DVDs, and hard disks. Near-static information changes infrequently - from once a day to once a year or longer. Examples include CAD and GIS models, mapping data, illustrated parts catalogs, service manuals, technical documentation, patient and customer records, and graphic arts graphic arts: see aquatint; drawing; drypoint; engraving; etching; illustration; linoleum block printing; lithography; mezzotint; niello; pastel; poster; silk-screen printing; silhouette; silverpoint; sketch; stencil; woodcut and wood engraving. including fonts library, clipart, and logos. About AditiNet, Inc. AditiNet, Inc. is a technology leader in static information Network Accessed Storage (NAS). The company's LANRedi Turbo(TM) family of hard disk based (1) Refers to devices that use magnetic hard disks for storage. It often refers to portable devices such as digital music players that have hard disks rather than flash memory. All desktop and laptop computers are presumed to have hard disks, and most servers have hard disks. archive and CD/DVD mirroring solutions enable users to share static information online at near-line prices. By offloading static information onto LANRedi Turbo products, companies can free up their general-purpose servers to perform mission-critical tasks faster as well as speed up file sharing for everyone on the network. LANRedi Turbo products can be up and running in less than 15 minutes and are easy to manage using any web browser The program that serves as your front end to the Web on the Internet. In order to view a site, you type its address (URL) into the browser's Location field; for example, www.computerlanguage.com, and the home page of that site is downloaded to you. from anywhere on the network. AditiNet, Inc. was formerly TAC 1. TAC - Translator Assembler-Compiler. For Philco 2000. 2. TAC - Terminal Access Controller. Systems, Inc. For more information, send e-mail to info@lanredi.com, visit www.lanredi.com or call 256-721-1976. AditiNet, LANRedi, LANRedi Turbo, CD/DVDTurbo, ArchiveTurbo, TeraTurbo, iMageTurbo, MediaTurbo, PortableTurbo, and SlimRackTurbo are trademarks of @fax, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. |
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