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Dynamic shared-media environments for real-time HD and SD collaboration
Designed specifically for storing, accessing, and sharing media in collaborative workgroup enivronments, the Avid Unity™ MediaNetwork solution offers significant advantages over simple storage area networks (SANs). Unlike other SAN-based storage offerings, Avid Unity MediaNetwork solutions integrate seamlessly into the production process, and efficiently deliver real-time, high-resolution media to creative workstations. In addition, Avid Unity MediaNetwork systems offer stability in demanding environments, transparency and ease of administration, flexibility and scalability, and deep interoperability with a powerful suite of complementary tools, including asset management, media transfer, transcoding, and archiving solutions.

Built on Avid's highly optimized file system architecture, Avid Unity MediaNetwork delivers a full range of uncompressed and compressed media in real time-including mastering-quality, high-efficiency Avid DNxHD™ and uncompressed high-definition (HD). Editing, finishing, audio, and graphics work can all take place at the same time-using the same media files and projects-in a dynamic, shared workspace.

New Avid Unity MediaNetwork 4.0 systems combine 4-Gigabit Fibre Channel technology with proven Avid Unity software and robust MEDIArray ZX4 hardware for even greater multi-stream, full-resolution performance and accelerated real-time collaboration in the most demanding post environments. 2-Gigabit Fibre Channel-based configurations are also offered for those who do not require the bandwidth of a 4-Gb infrastructure.

Key Benefits

  • Enables improved workflow efficiency through true simultaneous sharing of media assets, right down to the file level
  • Supports collaborative HD workflows using uncompressed HD media and high-efficiency Avid DNxHD encoded media
  • Completely open to all network-aware systems, allowing the entire facility to collaborate in real time
  • Multiple levels of redundancy constitute a rock-solid, reliable system that ensures peace of mind
  • Huge storage capacity of up to 20 TB with MEDIArray™ ZX or MEDIArray ZX4 storage, or up to 14.3 TB with MEDIArray II Fibre storage
  • Supports a mix of real-time clients: Windows XP, Windows 2000, and Macintosh® OS X, OS 9, and OS 8.6 applications via Fibre Channel or via Ethernet with Avid Unity PortServer Pro.
  • File transfer support for any network aware system through Avid Unity PortServer
  • Optional Productivity Tools add workgroup asset management, background media transfer, and archival storage
Reliable

The reliability of Avid Unity MediaNetwork is proven every day in over 3,000 mission-critical installations around the world. It is engineered to ensure your media network is always on line, always optimizing your productivity. UnityRAID™ protection exceeds that of standard RAID schemes by providing protection at the workspace or drive level while actually increasing system performance. The MEDIArray ZX and MEDIArray ZX4 storage systems provide enhanced diagnostics to identify problem drives and enable hot failover to a designated spare drive, allowing the system to ride through a drive failure. The AutoRecover feature automatically recovers data in the background from failing drives, and AutoFailover for the File Manager provides fault tolerance, ensuring that the system stays up and running.

Scalable

Avid Unity MediaNetwork shared storage solutions continue to set the standard in real-time performance, configuration flexibility, and ease of use, and scale easily to meet a wide variety of workflow and business needs. Avid Unity MediaNetwork solutions enable high-resolution sharing of HD and SD media, and feature user-friendly administration and time-saving productivity tools; the proven Avid Unity File system architecture; UnityRAID media protection; and unmatched support for Avid editing systems. Avid Unity MediaNetwork solutions are a reliable and powerful foundation on which to build your facility's HD, SD, and DV editing and finishing workflows, and your solution is backed by Avid, the industry leader in shared storage technology.


Avid Unity MediaNetwork Features

  • Flexible, real-time configurations with all clients simultaneously sharing media. For example v4.0 supports:
  • Up to 8 dual-stream clients at uncompressed 10-bit SD or 8 dual-stream clients at 10-bit Avid DNxHD 220x
  • Up to 16 dual-stream clients at uncompressed 8-bit SD or up to 16 dual-stream clients at Avid DNxHD 145
  • Up to 24 dual-stream 2:1 systems
  • Up to 60 single stream DV25 systems
  • Any combination of supported clients may simultaneously write or read media in the same workspace
  • Ability for any network-aware system within the facility to share media assets through the Avid Unity PortServer feature (including SGI-IRIX systems)
  • Redundant File Managers for failsafe system operation through the AutoFailover feature
  • UnityRAID™ media protection allows flexible protection of media assets, at any time, and even allows media files to be protected after they've been written
  • Huge storage capacity of up to 20 TB with MEDIArray™ ZX or MEDIArray ZX4 storage, up to 14.3 TB with MEDIArray II Fibre storage
  • Supports a mix of real-time clients: Windows XP, Windows 2000, and Macintosh® OS X, OS 9, and OS 8.6 applications via Fibre Channel or via Ethernet with Avid Unity PortServer Pro. (Note: Windows NT clients supported via Fibre Channel or via Ethernet on Avid Unity MediaNetwork v3.5.3 and earlier: Avid Unity MediaNetwork 4.0 supports Windows XP and Macintosh OS X clients via Fibre Channel or Ethernet with Avid Unity PortServer Pro.)
  • Real-time support for all Avid editing applications (ABVB, Meridien, DNA) and Digidesign® Pro Tools®. (Note: Avid Unity MediaNetwork 4.0 supports Windows XP and Macintosh OS X clients.)
  • File transfer support for any other network aware system through Avid Unity PortServer.
  • Virtual storage partitions (workspaces) that can be changed in size dynamically without destroying media or interrupting work
  • Simple administration through comprehensive system status, remote diagnostics and remote status notification
  • Add or remove drives from a drive set without losing the media or interrupting other users
  • Replace failed data drives with a simple menu command and recover the data without interrupting MediaNetwork operations
  • View, create, edit, and delete user accounts (with optional passwords) and assign users access privileges to workspaces
  • Support for Avid Unity MediaManager, TransferManager, DMS, and Nearchive Productivity Tools

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