Brocade Intelligent IP Solutions Enable High Speed Digital Film
Distribution at Shaw Studios
2010-04-15 10:00
Deploying BigIron RX Series, the new Shaw Studios campus now has
one of the most powerful Ethernet switches in the industry,
scalable to over two billion packets per second from the enterprise
edge to the core.
HONG KONG, April 15 /PRNewswire-Asia/ --
Brocade(R) (Nasdaq: BRCD) announces that Shaw Studios have deployed
BigIron RX and FastIron Edge series to extend Shaw Studios' current
high performance computing (HPC) environment to support
bandwidth-intensive applications and deliver excellent quality of
service (QoS) at its new advanced film production and digital
post-production facility. The new US$200 million deployment
at Shaw Studios comprises one of the largest film studios in Asia,
featuring fully air-conditioned and sound- and vibration-insulated
soundstages, 18 dubbing studios and post suites, a full service
film lab and digital intermediate center and a 400-seat theatre
-all in over 1 million square feet of digitally-enabled film
production and post-production facilities.
Shaw Studios is already running on a Brocade
IP network throughout the studios, and will increase the campus
network to connect all buildings and rooms on the entire campus to
a single, converged Brocade IP network for greater
manageability.
"The premises have a lot of human traffic
moving from movie sets to different post-production suites. We also
accommodate producers who are using the facility for short term
post-production work on the campus," said Eric Stark, Director of
Technical Operations at Shaw Studios. "Some projects require
multiple 10 gigabit Ethernet (GbE) connection to their respective
sound stages and post production suites so that video images and
data can move seamlessly to and from the sound stages and post
suites for review by directors on set to producers or film
management teams. Directors and cinematographers can now view, in
real time and while they're on set, fresh shot digital images in 4k
with Colour Grading, CG and EFX layered and combined from multiple
sources from around the campus. As film production adheres very
strictly to schedules with complete data security/privacy and
operates around the clock, we asked Brocade to provide a solution
that is highly reliable, secure and scalable for our present needs,
but which would be ready to accommodate our growing operational
challenges well into the future."
Shaw Studios chose high-performance Brocade
BigIron RX-16 switches for their two data centers, for directing
user traffic across applications and storage servers. These
feature-rich platforms offer 64 wire-speed 10GbE ports in a single
system and high service flexibility.
Serving as both a capable service provider
and heavy duty enterprise product, the BigIron RX Series allows
network designers to standardize on a single product family for
aggregation and backbone switching. This is ideal for Shaw Studios,
as they want central network control spanning across the two data
centers, full-service color laboratories and digital imaging
facilities.
The deployment also includes Brocade FastIron
Edge X switches to aggregate data traffic from more than 1000
applications, desktops and servers. They also provide small-network
backbone-connectivity with intelligent network services, including
superior QoS, predictable performance, advanced security and
comprehensive management.
"Prior experience with Brocade, in addition
to the fact that Brocade IP/Ethernet solutions are already widely
deployed in the leading media entertainment production houses
around the world, gave Shaw Studios the confidence to engage with
us for this project," said Edward Joe, regional manager, Brocade
Taiwan, HK and Macau. "It was a true partnership from the
beginning, with Brocade dedicating system engineering resources to
work closely with Shaw Studios' network managers to complete the
project in a timely and efficient manner."
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Brocade IP Networking Solutions:
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