Caen Engineering, Inc. Announces the Creation of CaenAV, Storage for the Digital Video and Audio Markets.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers ORANGE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 10, 2003 27 Year-Old Company Leverages Data Storage Expertise to Create High-End Solutions for Video and Audio Caen Engineering, Inc. announced the creation of CaenAV today. CaenAV is a subsidiary of the 27 year-old storage company whose primary focus will be the high-end digital video and audio markets, specifically catering to fibre channel, SCSI SCSI in full Small Computer System Interface Once common standard for connecting peripheral devices (disks, modems, printers, etc.) to small and medium-sized computers. SCSI has given way to faster standards, such as Firewire and USB. and IDE RAID Using ATA (IDE) drives in a RAID configuration. See RAID. solutions for the SD and HD markets. Caen has been providing reliable solutions into the government and IT markets for over two decades. "We're very excited about the creation of CaenAV," said Martin Calderwood, Caen's Executive Vice President. "It was a natural progression. We've been making high-end storage solutions for the defense and IT industries with a great deal of success for a very long time. With the data requirements and reliability issues now faced with SD and HD video, we felt it was a perfect opportunity to leverage our technology for the high-end video market." CaenAV products have been designed and qualified for use with Apple Macintosh Apple Macintosh - Macintosh , Microsoft Windows See Windows. (operating system) Microsoft Windows - Microsoft's proprietary window system and user interface software released in 1985 to run on top of MS-DOS. Widely criticised for being too slow (hence "Windoze", "Microsloth Windows") on the machines available then. , Unix and SGI (SGI, Sunnyvale, CA, www.sgi.com) A manufacturer of workstations and servers, founded in 1982 by Jim Clark. The company was founded as Silicon Graphics, Inc., but changed to its acronym in 1999. computer platforms including support for Macintosh OS X and Windows XP The previous client version of Windows. XP was a major upgrade to the client version of Windows 2000 with numerous changes to the user interface. XP improved support for gaming, digital photography, instant messaging, wireless networking and sharing connections to the Internet. . CaenAV storage solutions are currently being qualified by a large number of leading digital video and audio application manufacturers as well as audio and video capture card See video capture board. manufacturers and other key industry partners. "We have a long standing reputation for quality and a strong track record of supporting our customers," Calderwood said. "These are both qualities that we are excited to bring into the video and audio markets." CaenAV will initially sell both 1 and 2 GB Fibre Solutions as well as SCSI and Fibre-to-IDE RAID controller A disk controller card that supports one or more RAID configurations. Originally only for SCSI drives, RAID controllers have become very popular for PATA and SATA drives. See RAID. based solutions featuring high-end RAID controllers that have been fine tuned for the high-bandwidth requirements necessary in the digital video and audio markets. More information about CaenAV products can be found by visiting http://www.caenav.com, emailing sales@caenav.com or by contacting CaenAV at 866-651-6036. About CaenAV CaenAV is a subsidiary of Caen Engineering, Inc., a globally recognized leader of RAID and general-purpose storage. Caen Engineering, Inc. has successfully marketed and sold high-end storage solutions into the government, military and IT markets for 27 years. CaenAV provides storage solutions for the digital audio, video, and animation markets. |
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