- Sohonet
Sohonet is a
community-of-interest network for the television, film and media production community.Founded in
1995 by a group ofSoho -basedpost-production companies, Sohonet links many of the Britishfilm studio s to London's post-production community. Sohonet also provides access to theInternet , and private wide-area links to other countries.Sohonet has a global media network with private connectivity to the
United States , (Los Angeles,New York , etc),Canada ,New Zealand ,Australia ,France ,Netherlands ,Germany andItaly (Cinecittà studios,Rome ) and the ability to provide connectivity to locations worldwide viafiber andsatellite links.The leading British film studios,
Pinewood Studios ,Shepperton Studios ,Three Mills Studios ,Twickenham Film Studios andLeavesden Film Studios , have directoptical fiber connectivity to the SohonetLondon Fiber Ring, with campus connectivity on the sites provided viafiber andVDSL technologies.Sohonet is the winner of numerous industry awards, and was a pioneering user of IP-over-ATM networking. Sohonet has since moved away from ATM to using
Gigabit Ethernet ,10 Gigabit Ethernet andMPLS technologies, including the use ofwavelength division multiplexing on backbone connections. It has its own private optical fibre networks in several cities.Today Sohonet is one of the pioneers of tapeless
Digital intermediate , and one of the instigators of thePro-MPEG media dispatch protocol , now being discussed as aSMPTE standard.All types of media file formats, from
QuickTime DV MPEG AES/EBU MXF throughSerial Digital Interface ,OMFi , AAF,OpenEXR , to 4kDPX files are supported.External links
* [http://www.sohonet.co.uk/ Sohonet]
* [http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117984039.html?categoryid=1009&cs=1 "Variety" story about Sohonet]
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