Guangdong TV uses Vixel switches to connect over 80 video servers to

U.S.-based Vixel Corporation, provider of storage area networking (SAN) solutions, announced that, by working together with its partner Sobey Digital Technology, its switch technology enabled the networking of over 80 video servers to deliver the broadcast of Mainland China's largest sporting event, the Ninth Annual China National Athletic Events, held in Guangdong, China.

Vixel's 7200 Fibre Channel switches were used in Guangdong TV's broadcasting solution, which was created by Sobey Digital Technology Co., China's leading provider of video streaming and broadcast systems. Vixel's switches supported Guangdong TV's successful national broadcast of the athletic event to a vast audience from China's population of 1.1 billion.

The successful implementation of a heterogeneous storage networking solution using multiple storage devices, including a multi- asset-management system with MPEG-2 editing SAN network, enabled Guangdong TV and the International Broadcast Center a cost-effective means to show the games and provide reporters access to all the information at the connection center.

"By integrating Vixel's switches with Sobey's storage solution, we successfully supplied the enabling SAN technology to Guangdong TV, so it could run more than 80 streaming video servers simultaneously, showing all the sporting events without disruption to the people of Mainland China," said Beth White, vice president of marketing for Vixel. "We trust more Chinese broadcasting companies will want to install such SAN solutions, which can provide highly advanced audio and visual capabilities." -(World IT Report)