Moving Uncompressed Video Faster than Real Time

Economic methods are now available to move production and post-production data faster than real time in networked environments. Using ANSI-standard Fibre Channel serial interfaces on Silicon Graphics workstations and servers with optimized hardware and software, computer-to-disk and disk-to-disk communications have been demonstrated to transfer digital image data at a sustained throughput up to 600 Mbits/sec. Incorporating these interfaces, production and post-production facilities are achieving order-of-magnitude improvements in response time when accessing and transferring large files. Video server applications can use these interfaces for both storage access and communications for transporting up to 100 compressed streams simultaneously through a single port.

Print ISSN

0036-1682

Published

1996-12

Content type

Information

DOI

10.5594/J06423