ATTO Technology FC-42ES Brochure

Advanced Audio rentals is a leading audio equipment
rental firm in Burbank, California with clients such as
Sony Pictures, 20th Century Fox Studios, Paramount and
Warner Brothers. These companies needed a partner to
provide them with equipment to achieve the high quality
sound that is imperative for orchestral recording, post
production and film dubbing.
But what do you do when your current workflow process
does not keep pace with high definition audio technology
like Digidesign's ProTools|HD?
sound is imperative in the movie business and for or-
chestral recording, Paul Levy, owner of Advanced Audio
Rentals was determined to find a networked alternative
solution that could support all track counts and sampling
rates up to 192kHz.
With the introduction of Digidesign's ProTools|HD, audio
engineers could now configure virtual track layouts and
use many more effects to speed workflow. Audio could
now be digitized at sampling rates up to 192kHz. Cur-
rently, the only standalone storage solution that can sup-
port 192kHz recording is FireWire 800-based. This
storage format poses multiple challenges including
mounting difficulties, lack of RAID redundancy, and track
allocation problems because one needs to use multiple
physical devices daisy-chained together in order to over-
come the IDE rotational speed limitation of 7200 RPM.
"One of the challenges I had to
resolve was that the only ports
left for connection in a Macin-
tosh® were the FireWire 800
port or the Ethernet port. Fire-
Wire based storage was not
stable enough and did not pro-
vide the robustness needed for
orchestral recording or sound
dubbing. I was intrigued by the
power of iSCSI and the ability
for facilities to use their exist-
Power Behind the Storage
Advanced Audio Delivers Symphony Sound
Realizing that quality
"One of the challenges I had to resolve
was that the only ports left for con-
nection in a Macintosh were the Fire-
Wire 800 port or the Ethernet port.
FireWire based storage was not sta-
ble enough and did not provide the ro-
bustness needed for orchestral re-
cording or sound dubbing," states Paul
Levy, owner of Advanced Audio Rent-
als, Burbank, California.
Using iSCSI
ing backbone and wiring of 1-Gb or 10-Gb Ethernet. So I
began to research solutions," states Paul Levy.
And so the search began for a configuration that could
be adapted to the changing needs of his clients. After
reviewing the
needs of
High Defini-
tion Audio,
Paul needed
to find a
product that
could con-
nect to the
M a c i n t o s h
Ethernet port
and also pro-
vide Fibre
Channel con-
nectivity. He
decided on
the ATTO
iPBridge™ 2700, an iSCSI-to-Fibre Channel bridge that
would provide the connectivity needed to a Fibre Channel
switch or Fibre Channel RAID storage.
Advanced Audio put together a configuration that could
be adapted to the changing needs of their clients. Fea-
turing the ATTO iPBridge 2700
and ATTO's Xtend SAN iSCSI
initiator, clients could connect
their Macintosh via
Ethernet port directly into 3
Terabytes of online Fibre Chan-
nel RAID storage, or use 2
Gigabytes of Fibre Channel via
the ATTO Celerity FC-42ES
Host Adapter.
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