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MillimeterPinnacle Systems To Provide Vortex News Solutions To CNN
Jul 31, 2002 12:00 PM
Pinnacle Systems and The CNN News Group today announced that both parties have signed an agreement for Pinnacle to develop and install advanced news-editing solutions over the coming year at CNN Center in Atlanta and CNN's New York News Bureau. CNN is currently using Pinnacle's Liquid Blue editing systems in New York for daily news production and later this year plans to integrate both Vortex and Liquid Blue editors into the Palladium shared-storage network. The systems will be part of CNN's integrated compressed digital production infrastructure ready to support the world's busiest 24-hours-per-day,7-days-per-week broadcast news operation.
In both CNN locations, Pinnacle's Vortex News system will create a state-of-the-art mirrored server resource that ties together Vortex 200 journalist edit stations, Vortex 1000, and Vortex Blue non-linear editing systems, as well as Pinnacle's content capture stations and playback decoders. The system will make use of 10/100 Base T and Gigabit Ethernet technologies and support a network of Vortex MediaCore servers and RAID-compliant disk arrays managed by a Vortex MetaData Control System.
"We are delighted to be associated with CNN on such an important project," says Bob Wilson, president of Pinnacle's Broadcast Division. "We firmly believe that Pinnacle's next-generation Vortex News Solution will provide CNN with the cutting edge technology needed for today's demanding broadcast news environment."
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