Marquis Broadcast Launches Fotonflite System

Marquis Broadcast has launched its latest system Fotonflite.

Fotonflite is a high-performance, secure 'on-the-fly', point-to-point transfer system for Avid Media Composer projects and media workspaces, and was initially created to provide a very secure way of connecting production centres over the internet. It allows remote servers to be configured as if they were local, and directly connects and securely synchronises live Avid ISIS/NEXIS systems, especially Avid work-in-progress.

It was developed in response to two different customer requirements: a studio that needed to securely sync Avid NEXIS between US and UK; and a post house who wanted to securely protect and manage remote freelance Media Composer projects on Tier 2 storage. In each case, existing transfer technologies were deemed insecure, since they required data 'at rest' outside of the connected servers.

"Conventional transfers may expose Avid productions to additional security risks, since the files must often be copied to a temporary folder, where they're at rest, before the network-accelerated transfer system will pick them up," explained Sales and Marketing Director, Paul Glasgow. "Fotonflite solves this problem by using a point-to-point connection that's always in-flight, so at no point during Fotonflite-enabled replication, archive, copy, share and sync processes will data be at rest outside the source or target storage systems."

Traditionally, access to an Avid ISIS or NEXIS system has only been possible if a workstation was attached to NEXIS via a high-performance, low latency, low jitter LAN and was locally running the Avid NEXIS Client software, and network distances may be restricted. Fotonflite removes this fundamental limitation for attached Marquis applications, enabling many new, remote workflows if required, even operating at intercontinental distances.

When used with Project Parking, Fotonflite™ can help archive from Avid on-line storage to Tier 2 storage in a remote location. This allows for additional protection from disasters by putting the archive off-site, enabling a large facility with multiple locations to maintain a single archive site with savings in management, administration and security.

Using unique ISIS/NEXIS analytics, Fotonflite™ transfers project and media changes from one storage system to the other as delta transfers. After the first full Fotonflite™ transfer, any subsequent transfers send only the project and media changes. This intelligence transforms the speed and efficiency of subsequent updates or backups, and in many scenarios, reduces network payload by 90% for the fastest possible target project and/or workspace updates. It also offers more choices when deploying remote disaster recovery and business continuity solutions to protect Avid ISIS / NEXIS work-in-progress.

Fotonflite™ is completely transparent in operation. Project Parking, Workspace Backup and Workspace Sync will act in the same way as they would when writing to any of the storage types locally. The transfer to the remote site is handled entirely in the background and the remote storage looks, to the Marquis user, as if it were installed locally. Fotonflite™ is available as an upgrade for existing Workspace Backup, Workspace Sync and Project Parking customers with a valid support contract and as an option for new customers.

Marquis Broadcast will be showcasing Fotonflite at the 2018 IBC Show in Amsterdam, 13-18 September.

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