Miami HEAT Broadcast Engineering Magazine "Systems Design Showcase"
Authored by SGI's Bill Buhro, this article describes the installation of an 8TB SGI InfiniteStorage NAS system to create a centralized shared environment for encoders, asset management software, Avid nonlinear editors, read-ony graphics workstations and older storage. The production department for the Miami HEAT NBA team creates content on the SGI NAS system approximately 16 hours a day, in season, for many outlets, including pre-game shows, half-time shows and withing the on-air broadcast.
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Visionary Facility at the University of Colorado
The new Bechtel Collaboratory is a superbly productive multimedia meeting space where students and faculty can adapt meeting rooms to their needs, explore immersive visualization, and collaborate audibly and visually with colleagues across the campus or the world.
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Danish Broadcasting
SGI Professional Services provided interfaces to all of the different client software and systems, including the Web front end developed by Danish Broadcasting. This combination is the most sophisticated and flexible asset management system in the broadcast industry.
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France Télévisions Publicité
The solution designed by SGI is based on a hub-and-spoke model, similar to an edge server architecture. Because of the open networking capabilities of SGI Media Server for broadcast, FTP was able to use an existing network without purchasing hardware to convert physical interfaces.
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Thomson
At Thomson, the world's fourth largest supplier of consumer electronics, SGI® Reality Center® technology shortens product development cycles and speeds time to market. SGI Professional Services managed the overall integration of the computer and projection hardware and provided training and ongoing technical support.
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Cineca's Virtual Theater
Cineca of Bologna Uses SGI® Technology in Its Virtual Theater
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Pepsi Center
The Pepsi Center Arena Gets Video-On-Demand
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