British Telecom and Ampex Collaborate On Video Archive System as Part of Digital Content Management System.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers NAB2001 Booth No. L365 LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 23, 2001 BT Broadcast Services, a division of BT Ignite, a broadband IP and data business provider, and Ampex Data Systems, a wholly owned subsidiary Wholly Owned Subsidiary A subsidiary whose parent company owns 100% of its common stock. Notes: In other words, the parent company owns the company outright and there are no minority owners. of Ampex Corp. (AMEX AMEX See: American Stock Exchange :AXC AXC Chief Aviation Antisubmarine Warfare Technician (Naval Rating) AXC Add Cross-Connect Card ), are working together to provide a DST-based automated archive library for BT's new digital content management solution. Ampex Data Systems' automated archive libraries are designed for broadcast facilities looking to digitize and automate their programming or news operations. Most importantly Adv. 1. most importantly - above and beyond all other consideration; "above all, you must be independent" above all, most especially , the archive configuration selected by BT can manage more than 185,000 hours of 12 Mbps video equating to more than a petabyte One quadrillion bytes (one trillion kilobytes). Also PB, Pbyte and P-byte. See peta, binary values and space/time. (unit) petabyte - 2^50 = 1,125,899,906,842,624 bytes = 1024 terabytes or roughly 10^15 bytes. 1024 petabytes is one exabyte. of data storage. Also announced today at NAB2001, BT Broadcast Services is demonstrating an Ampex DST (1) (DeSTination) Contrast with SRC, which is an abbreviation of "source." (2) (Digital Signal Trust Company, Salt Lake City, UT, www.digsigtrust.com) An organization that sets up and manages PKI systems for companies and industry groups. system in their booth as part of its network centric digital content management solution designed to enable media owners to exploit valuable video assets by making them available to users worldwide. "We provide the highest-quality video server archives in the world, and with BT Broadcast Services as a pre-eminent service provider to global broadcasters we can now validate our extremely powerful solution for a worldwide client base," said John Hennessy There have been several people named John Hennessy, including:
BT Broadcast Services' new service -- called BT MediaReel -- offers encoding, storage, cataloguing and streaming over the Internet at narrowband, midband and broadband bit rates. Content management services are now available from a number of key regional media centers across Europe and in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. , including a new Los Angeles facility. At the heart of the automated library is an innovative DST tape drive designed to read and write 300GB DST data cartridges. The high-performance tape drive not only searches for data at more than 2700 MB/sec but also boasts a fast 20 megabytes-per-second data transfer rate, and can restore a one hour 12 Mbps video program from archive to video server in less than five minutes. As television news and master control operations rely more and more on digital video technology, they inevitably need to store thousands of hours of file-based digitized video program content. The video server archival storage agreement with BT Broadcast Services clearly reaffirms Ampex Data Systems' commitment to innovation and to maintaining its market leadership position. For more information, e-mail Ampex Data Systems at sales@ampex.com or call toll-free at 800/752-7590. About BT Broadcast Services BT Broadcast Services is Europe's leading supplier of global broadcast solutions providing a comprehensive range of terrestrial and satellite services for international television and radio broadcasters. The group offers flexible, cost-effective and tailor-made services such as network development, design, provision and management. Its international client base includes broadcasters, news agencies, production companies and organizers of special events throughout the world. BT Broadcast Services is at the forefront of innovation in new and emerging markets, delivering technologically advanced broadcast solutions involving digitally compressed television, high definition television and satellite newsgathering news·gath·er·ing adj. Of, relating to, or involving the research and reportage of news: a worldwide newsgathering operation. news . For more information about BT Broadcast Services visit the Web site at www.vbs.bt.co.uk. About Ampex Data Systems Ampex Data Systems Corp. (www.ampexdata.com), with headquarters in Redwood City, Calif., is one of the world's leading providers of technologies for the acquisition, storage and processing of visual information. Ampex Data Systems designs and delivers extremely high-capacity, high-performance digital image storage solutions for large-scale corporate, government, network, entertainment and telecommunications applications. Ampex Data Systems customers include such leading organizations as AT&T, the Federal Aviation Administration Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), component of the U.S. Department of Transportation that sets standards for the air-worthiness of all civilian aircraft, inspects and licenses them, and regulates civilian and military air traffic through its air traffic control , Fox Television, HBO Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBO) A form of oxygen therapy in which the patient breathes oxygen in a pressurized chamber. Mentioned in: Ozone Therapy , Netcom and TV Guide Channel. Ampex Data Systems Corp. is a wholly owned subsidiary of Ampex Corp. |
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