Storage Overview

VT Storage Networks
The Apella core networking architecture is designed to scale from a single server with local media storage to multiple ingest and playout servers with central NAS/SAN storage, while supporting remote high-resolution and low-resolution editor and browser clients. This design provides the ability for any Apella playout server or other NewsFlow client to become completely autonomous in the advent of a critical failure of the central database or central media storage. In case of a network failure, all assets scheduled for broadcast are cached on the local playout machines and will still be available for playout.

Shared Area Networks
The Video Technics SAN Fibre-Channel architecture supports up to 90 concurrent high-resolution SD streams and 22 HD streams, which can be shared between any combination of ingest/playout server channels or NLEs.

Network Attached Storage
VT's scalable next-generation NAS architecture provides a price and functional range to suit every budget and project size. Available systems support bandwidth throughput up to 1 Gigabyte/second, providing cost-effective solutions for HD media infrastructures. Individual chassis can hold up to 36TB of storage.

See Internal Storage, DAS, NAS, SAN, or Archive for more information.