Re: [Avid-L2] Avid's impression with system integrators?

 

3 servers, seamlessly tied together so that they show up as one. Separate servers give you the added benefit of more spinning drives, and more spinning drives means the whole thing is faster.

Network attached storage, in a large capacity, is exactly this. In a smaller capacity, it's those wireless drive array boxes you can buy on Amazon that register on your home network and are accessible to any computer on your network.

10g over fiber exists because that's the only way you could have gotten that speed in the past. 10g over copper (cat 6) is emerging because it's way cheaper and easier to outfit and maintain than fiber, which is delicate and expensive. Need hardware to interface it, no matter how you slice it, but I've talked with EditShare and they're on board with it. We've already spent the money on fiber cards, fiber runs, and fiber switches, and even the new Mac Pro doesn't have 10g ethernet, so it's probably a theoretical now and a logistical soon.

On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 4:33 PM, <bigfish@pacbell.net> wrote:

 

Are the 3 servers tied together or stand alone.  I'm also curious when my friend said he saw the future is going to be in network attached storage.  Isn't that what a unity is NAS or am I misunderstanding the terminology?  He said 10 gig ethernet would be replacing fibre for interconnect and this 10 gig over cat 6 seemed interesting but we didn't get into the specifics.  He did mention replacing existing fibre cards with micro com boards to get into this new functionality.  I'll have to do some googling on the 10 gig over cat 6 that sounds to good to be true.  My friend said there would be a demo of 40 gig ethernet at NAB.  Hmmm

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