Avid Announces Powerful Next Generation of Avid Unity Family; Now Offers Higher Performance At Breakthrough Prices.Business/Technology Editors NAB 2002 LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 7, 2002 Avid Technology "Avid" redirects here. For the "Advancement Via Individual Determination" educational program, see AVID. Avid Technology, Inc NASDAQ: AVID is an American company specializing in video and audio production technology; specifically, digital non-linear media editing (NLE) , Inc. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : AVID) today announced the next generations of Avid Unity(TM) MediaNet and Avid Unity LANshare, its solutions for storing, managing and sharing media assets. MediaNet v3.0 features an all-new 2-Gigabit architecture that increases total system bandwidth by more than 40 percent, while decreasing the price of a typical configuration by approximately 15 percent. Avid also announced two new versions of LANshare, its turnkey See turnkey system. shared storage system. LANshare v2.0 offers new software enhancements at a breakthrough price of $22,500 (USMSRP), while LANshare v3.0 enters the system family as a new mid-range model with higher capacity and throughput. The Avid Unity product line now delivers the advantages of creative collaboration to facilities of any size, on any budget. "With more than 750 systems deployed at customer sites around the world in the last three years, Avid Unity MediaNet has set the standard for true sharing and collaborating," said Tim Claman, director of Avid Workgroups and Storage. "Version 3.0's new 2-Gigabit hardware means MediaNet now can scale larger than ever before, supporting more clients at higher media resolutions. With two LANshare models, we have drastically dras·tic adj. 1. Severe or radical in nature; extreme: the drastic measure of amputating the entire leg; drastic social change brought about by the French Revolution. 2. reduced the barrier to entry for customers who want the power of Avid Unity - scaling all the way from small editorial workgroups on a tight budget to the largest media enterprises." Additionally, Avid is demonstrating significant software feature enhancements to Avid Unity MediaNet, including AutoRecover, which allows users to automatically recover a failed disk drive in the background, without requiring any downtime The time during which a computer is not functioning due to hardware, operating system or application program failure. or interruption INTERRUPTION. The effect of some act or circumstance which stops the course of a prescription or act of limitation's. 2. Interruption of the use of a thing is natural or civil. of service. Also new to MediaNet is a billing service that integrates with ScheduALL resource management software to automate To turn a set of manual steps into an operation that goes by itself. See automation. tracking and billing of storage usage. Avid is adding support for Avid Xpress(R) DV v3.0 and for the Trilligent(TM) Media Server, which streams media directly off the MediaNet system to users on a LAN (Local Area Network) A communications network that serves users within a confined geographical area. The "clients" are the user's workstations typically running Windows, although Mac and Linux clients are also used. or the Internet. The next-generation LANshare platform offers more than double the storage capacity of the current LANshare platform, while delivering enough throughput to support several high-resolution Avid(R) workstations. At the same time, Avid is offering the first-generation LANshare at an even lower price for customers who have more modest shared storage requirements. Both models of LANshare are cost-effective solutions ideal for small- to mid-sized film, editorial, broadcast, corporate, education and government facilities that want the robust storage management and media sharing capabilities provided by the core technology of the Avid Unity system. Avid announced similar enhancements to its Trilligent line of streaming media See streaming audio, streaming video and digital media hub. products, Trilligent Cluster and the recently introduced, entry-level Trilligent LANserver. Both solutions benefit from the increased performance and features of the latest Avid Unity technology. System/Solution Details & Pricing Avid Unity MediaNet v3.0 - Starting at $55,000 USMSRP -- Newest 2 Gb architecture translates into significantly improved price/performance. -- New AutoRecover feature protects users from failed drives and allows work to continue through drive failures. -- Support for Avid Xpress DV Avid Xpress DV is a popular non-linear video editing application available to professionals on Microsoft Windows and Apple Macintosh computers. See also
-- Integration with ScheduALL by VizuAll, Inc. software for storage billing and accounting. -- Trilligent Media Server option for Avid Unity MediaNet supports high-performance media streaming. -- Scalability through Cluster configurations, which allow a single client to connect to storage on multiple MediaNet systems. -- Support for Windows version of Digidesign(R) Pro Tools(R) (v5.3.1) software. Avid Unity LANshare v2.0 (2U chassis Pronounced "chah-see," it is a physical structure that holds everything or that everything is attached to. A computer's cabinet is often called the chassis. ) - Starting at $22,500 USMSRP -- 640 Gb per system in a compact 2U form factor. -- Supports up to 10 single stream 4:1s or lower resolution clients or 6 dual stream 10:1 or lower resolution clients. Avid Unity LANshare v3.0 (4U chassis) - Starting at $40,000 USMSRP -- More than twice the total bandwidth of LANshare v1.0 (100 MB/sec vs. 45 MB/sec). -- 1.92 TB per system expandable to 2.9 TB, with greater scalability in future releases. -- Supports high-resolution Fibre Channel clients (4 clients @ 2:1, etc.), making it ideal for small online workgroups. -- Increased number of total clients (15 single stream DV25). Trilligent Cluster v3.0 - Starting at $66,000 USMSRP -- Newest 2 Gb architecture translates into significantly improved price/performance. -- Supports approximately 20-40% more streams per media server. -- New AutoRecover feature protects users from failed drives and allows work to continue through drive failures. Trilligent LANserver v2.0 - Starting at $25,000 USMSRP -- Avid Unity file system provides high performance and eliminates content replication In database management, the ability to keep distributed databases synchronized by routinely copying the entire database or subsets of the database to other servers in the network. There are various replication methods. -- the LANserver streams directly off its internal storage. -- Entry-level system offers 300 Mb/sec bandwidth and 640 Gb raw storage, 320 Gb mirrored. -- Supports single streams from 28 Kb/sec to 6 Mb/sec. -- Unique all-in-one storage and server unit provides a compact, portable 2U form factor with eight drives for media storage, combined with media server capabilities. -- Stores up to 1,500 of hours of video content online. Availability: -- Avid Unity MediaNet v3.0, Avid Unity LANshare v2.0, Trilligent Cluster v3.0, Trilligent LANserver v2.0 are scheduled to ship in April/May 2002. -- Avid Unity LANshare v3.0 (4U chassis) is scheduled to ship in June 2002. About Avid Technology, Inc. Avid Technology, Inc. delivers the solutions that Make, Manage and Move Media(TM). As a recognized digital standard for professionals who Make the world's media -- from video, audio and film to animation, special effects special effects, in motion pictures, cinematographic techniques that create illusions in the audience's minds as well as the illusions created using these techniques. and streaming media -- Avid's products are used to make more television and news shows, commercials, music videos and CDs, corporate/industrial productions and major motion pictures combined than any other nonlinear editing See nonlinear video editing. manufacturer in the world. Building on its award-winning heritage, which includes several Emmy(R) awards as well as an Oscar(R) statuette representing the 1998 Scientific and Technical Award for the concept, design and engineering of the Avid Film Composer(R) systems for motion picture editing, Avid is extending its reach by redefining how digital media is shared, stored and distributed. To Manage today's increasingly rich collection of dynamic media, Avid provides powerful servers, networks and media tools to help customers search files, share media and collaborate on new productions, both locally and globally. Avid's solutions also empower empower verb To encourage or provide a person with the means or information to become involved in solving his/her own problems users to easily Move media, whether on air, over cable or satellite or through the Internet. Like no other media company today, Avid's end-to-end solutions (jargon) end-to-end solution - (E2ES) A term that suggests that the supplier of an application program or system will provide all the hardware and/or software components and resouces to meet the customer's requirement and no other supplier need be involved. Compare: turn-key solution. span the continuum Continuum (pl. -tinua or -tinuums) can refer to:
(c) 2002 Avid Technology, Inc. All rights reserved. Product specifications and availability are subject to change without notice. All prices are USMSRP for the U.S. and Canada only and are subject to change without notice. Contact your local Avid office or reseller An organization that sells hardware and software to the general public. Resellers purchase products from software publishers and hardware manufacturers. for prices outside the U.S. and Canada. Avid, Trilligent, Digidesign, Pro Tools, Film Composer, Avid Unity, Xpress and Make, Manage and Move Media are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Avid Technology, Inc. Oscar is Oscar I, 1799–1859, king of Sweden and Norway (1844–59), son and successor of Charles XIV. His reign was one of social and economic advance. His book on the reform of criminal law and prisons had wide influence. Oscar was succeeded by his elder son, Charles XV. a registered trademark and service mark of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences. Emmy is a registered trademark of ATAS/NATAS. All other trademarks contained herein are the property of their respective owners. |
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