Apace CL Series
Clustered Storage for Real-time Collaborated Editing

Support up to 10 Real-time video editing clients
Scalable up to 30 DVC ProHD or 20 DNxHD
Managed data coherence
Workflow resilience

Apace CL series is the most advanced storage cluster system platform designed for real-time collaborated video editing environment of post-production studios and broadcast users. The platform consists of two individual 3U or 4U rackmount chassis and can support multiple HD editing clients concurrently and across CL storage systems in real-time for working on the same projects and sharing content. CL series works with Avid, Apple FCP, Adobe Premiere and Grass Valley Edius editing applications. Target markets are large post production and broadcast users that need scalable video editing and collaboration for multiple heterogeneous editing workgroups.

- Integrated browser based user interface for project, user and storage management
- Virtualized storage for sharing and collaboration
- workflow resilience for instant work resume when part of the system is down
- Readily available cluster info to help collaboration
- Scalable Networked storage for large projects
- IP based connectivity
- File, directory and text search.
- Facilities for very large data set movement, cleaning and system monitoring.
- Built in workflow and storage management
- No need for agent based software
- Support for All popular editing software running on PC and MAC
- Use existing network infrastructure to minimize installation & maintenance costs
- Intrinsic system level redundancy
- RAID based data protection and enterprise class system level building blocks
- Built in network/fabric connectivity for direct access storage
- Built in Project access rights management layer for assured data integrity
- Project specific mirroring for critical data content

CL Series value propositions are:

Handles more concurrent HD users for large projects
Supports project level sharing across multiple storage boxes
Scalable for up to 30 DVC ProHD or 20 DNxHD streams and 10 editing clients
Workflow resilience to handle single box downtime
High speed RAID 5 protected data

CL Series storage platform is architected to scale to larger number of cluster nodes while remaining Video Editing software Agnostic. The advantages of this approach are that customers are not tied to a proprietary editing environment and integrate all their editing, graphics and other related workgroups into the same storage pool. Also, the platform is based on GE and 10GE Ethernet connectivity allowing for inherent advantages of an IP based LAN to be leveraged for ease of deployment purposes.

Web based user interface for the CL platform:

CL series assures Three key benefits:
a) Scalable and built in collaborative real-time editing offering a virtual networked storage platform
b) Resilience and content protection at two levels, Multi-system Level and RAID-5 level
c) Simple manageability leveraging from integrated Web based User interface and IP based connectivity.

Note: Avid Unity / ISIS/ Media Manager and other product names are trademarks of corresponding companies. Apace is not an affiliation of the companies listed.