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Acceptance of Silicon Storage Appliances as the easiest and most cost-effective way to build SAN infrastructures for broadcasting continues to grow, with major manufacturers and integrators choosing DataDirect solutions as the underlying "secret sauce" in their solutions. Matrox, Incite, Dayang and Gee Broadcast to Showcase Silicon Storage Appliance-Powered Applications at IBC 2002 WHAT: DataDirect's Silicon Storage Appliances will be powering broadcast applications at IBC 2002 in the following booths: * Matrox Video Products Group (7.121) * Incite Multimedia Corporation (7.210) * Dayang Technology Development (7.420) * Gee Broadcast Systems, Ltd. (7.131) DataDirect representatives will be available for discussions and demonstrations in each booth to discuss the fastest, simplest and most affordable way to implement SAN storage using Silicon Storage Appliances. The two versions of Silicon Storage Appliances at IBC 2002 include: * DataDirect's enterprise-class S2A 6000 Silicon Storage Appliance directly supports up to 512 workstations and 180 Terabytes of storage, simultaneously supporting a multitude of ingest, NLE, CG, playout and browse stations. With each appliance's ability to supply over 6000 hours of 50Mbit/sec MPEG2@ML content to 90 concurrent streams, and the ability to support thousands of concurrent broadband streams, the Silicon Storage Appliance brings performance and scalability benefits to broadcasting and production environments. DataDirect's "format independence" guarantees scaling of capacity and streams from highly-compressed broadband all the way to HD and beyond. * The S2A 3000 Silicon Storage Appliance brings a simple to deploy, easy to manage and affordable storage network appliance that allows departments and workgroups to achieve application performance gains, cost-effective scalability and simplified management. Each S2A 3000 Silicon Storage Appliance supplies an aggregate bandwidth up to 800 megabytes per second to Linux, Unix, Windows NT/2000, Sun, AIX, HP-UX and SGI workgroups. The S2A 3000 can easily manage storage network environments ranging in capacity from 500GB to 14 Terabytes. WHERE: IBC 2002, Amsterdam, Sept. 13-17, 2002 WHY: DataDirect Networks has created highly scalable, simple-to-deploy and easy-to-manage Silicon Storage Appliances to accelerate application performance, simplify information management, and lower operating costs. Using a Silicon Storage Appliance-based infrastructure to create the storage area network allows broadcasting professionals to overcome the many limitations of first generation storage networks, with the plug and play appliance bringing application productivity through acceleration, cost-effective scalability and simplicity with high QoS. HOW: Silicon Storage Appliances bring parallelism and superior virtualization benefits to content creators and provides unmatched advantages to the production environment. For broadcasters and creative professionals needing high stream count, rock solid audio and video streams, storage and host scalability, and simplified management, DataDirect Networks' Silicon Storage Appliance technology sets new standards in application acceleration and plug and play simplicity. WHO: DataDirect Networks (www.datadirectnet.com), the leading provider of the world's highest performance storage networking appliances, serves IT professionals in the broadcasting, digital production, government, defense, and oil and gas industries, DataDirect Networks' Silicon Storage Appliances make it easy, simple and trouble-free to accelerate and manage applications, dramatically reducing TCO and increasing ROI.