Media broadcasting, video-file rendering, and video editing are all functions within the entertainment industry that involve large and increasingly high resolution files that need to be moved and shared. The speed of file sharing between server clusters is important for broadcasting programs concurrently and video editing and rendering. Advances in software, server and storage hardware have set the stage for faster transfer times, but digital media firms now need to improve upon one last bottleneck: bandwidth limitations often created by the switch interconnects between servers. To dramatically improve video file transfer rates across and within server clusters, digital media firms are now turning to Voltaire's InfiniBand-based Grid Backbone™ solutions.

The Voltaire Solution

Voltaire offers many important features and solutions for video editing and on-demand video companies. The solutions can be used together or on a stand-alone basis to provide a powerful platform to address the benefits that can be obtained by improving broadcast performance, providing higher resolutions and speeding-up digital media rendering and editing.

• High Bandwidth
  Voltaire solutions provide bandwidth of 10-30 Gbps for higher throughput for both broadcasting and editing allowing for faster editing and more simultaneous instances of video broadcasting.
  
• Faster File Transfer
  Voltaire solutions provide latency as low as 1.3 microseconds. Moreover, Voltaire's InfiniBand-based solutions leverage Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) with CPU and OS bypass-technologies that greatly reduce memory-copy overheads and associated CPU utilization. This allows the applications to write and retrieve faster to and from storage.
  
• Fast I/O for Low-Cost, Commodity-Based Storage
  Voltaire solutions enable parallel file systems over InfiniBand, which offers far-greater performance and scalability than NFS solutions.
  
• Multi-platform support
  Voltaire solutions support the widest array of platforms and operating systems.
  
• Standards-Based
  Voltaire solutions are based on InfiniBand: the only industry-standard, high-performance interconnect. These standards run across all protocols from switching to storage.
  

Voltaire's InfiniBand-based Grid Backbone solutions transfer large video files faster and allow for simultaneous rendering and editing. Voltaire offers the high-performance (10-30 Gbps), low-latency computing that rendering and editing applications need in order to run faster in a shorter period of time. Benchmark testing has found that Voltaire interconnect solutions speed up file transfer time by a factor of 10X.