Charismac to Show FibreShare 2.0 in Global Distribution Booth at IBC; OS X SAN Software Will Be Featured on Pinnacle Cinewave and Digidesign Protools Workstations.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

IBC 2003

AUBURN, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 10, 2003

Charismac Engineering will show hands on demonstrations of their FibreShare V2.0 SAN software for OS X solution in the Global Distribution booth at the International Broadcast Convention (IBC) next week in Amsterdam over 12th-16th of September. IBC is the world's premier broadcast technology event.

FibreShare V2.0 OS X SAN Software is a robust volume management solution that allows multiple users to dynamically share data between OS 9 and OS X and have shared read and write access to Fibre Channel storage without the bottlenecks commonly associated with traditional Ethernet-based networking. FibreShare V2.0 has been shipping since early summer and has been met with extremely positive feedback.

"This is a fantastic opportunity to show the European broadcast community the incredible power and ease of use of FibreShare v2.0," said Wyler Furgeson, Charismac's President and CEO. "We're ecstatic about our business arrangement with Global Distribution, they have a tremendous amount of knowledge in the AV market and we believe that having them embrace our FibreShare Software solidifies the solution as the only logical choice for any SAN running under OS X."

Global Distribution, Charismac's EMEA master distributor, is located in Hall #7, stand 742, right next to Digidesign and Apple. Global Distribution's managing director, Keith Warburton said that they will be showing live demonstrations of FibreShare V2.0 on both Mac OS 9 and OS X platforms using both Pinnacle's Cinewave High Definition capture cards and Digidesign's Protools HD.

"The FibreShare software is working extremely well in both Audio and Video environments," said Warburton. "The integration of FibreShare into a SAN is absolutely a breeze, the serverless solution lets you run any application regardless of whether you're in OS 9 or OS X on a single volume or RAID and you can dynamically administer the SAN volumes, users and groups from any workstation on the network."

More information about Global Distribution can be found on the Global Distribution web site at www.globaldistribution.com or by emailing [e-mail] or calling [phone]. More information about Charismac Engineering, or about FibreShare V2.0 can be found on the Charismac web site at www.charismac.com or by emailing [e-mail] or calling Charismac at [phone].