ABSTRACT
In high-end broadcast and postproduction environments, real time, high availability storage systems offer significant workflow advantages. This appendix reviews a new storage system architecture1 designed specifically for the needs of AV. The design blurs the lines between NAS and SAN systems. It addresses a number of key needs, including support for a large number of real time editing clients and I/O channels, high data availability, hot-swap components, heterogeneous clients (Windows and MacOS), and wide range scalability in data rates and storage capacity.
