SGL Direct Connect Speeds up Archive and Retrieval in Avid ISIS Environment

SGL (Software Generation Limited) has introduced Direct Connect for use within the SGL and Avid ISIS shared storage environment.

Avid SIS 7500 system

Direct Connect allows users to quickly transfer high resolution material providing benefits when working with longer form content.

The advent of HD, 4k and 8k formats has made a difference in terms of clarity of image but the sheer size of files can cause bottlenecks, reducing transfer times and hindering system performance. Using Direct Connect, clips or sequences over several gigabytes in size can be archived and retrieved faster, as can shorter clips with high bit rates such as HD trailers and commercials.

“Traditionally content passed between SGL FlashNet and Avid ISIS is sent via Avid’s archive provider. In the past when file sizes were smaller this worked well but for high-resolution file-based content this method has some performance implications. Direct Connect enables FlashNet to connect directly to the ISIS storage system using 1/10GBE,” explains Lee Sheppard, director, product management, SGL.

SGL has partnered with Avid for the past eleven years and the companies continue to deliver solutions that are required by modern broadcast facilities. Company’s FlashNet, the engine that drives Avid Interplay Archive, provides customers around the world with an integrated MAM/PAM archive solution. Built around a clustered architecture, which allows virtually infinite scalability, FlashNet provides Avid users with an archive regardless of size, from the smallest TV station to the largest network operation.