[opendtv] Behind The Scenes at Disney TV

Hi, 

See: http://www.tomshardware.com/column/20050727/index.html

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One of the things I like about my job is getting to meet you, 
my readers, face to face. Last week I spent some time with 
Michael Pusateri, the VP of Engineering for the Disney-ABC 
Cable Networks Group. Pusateri handles the IT department of 
four different Disney cable channels, and you can imagine that 
he has a demanding but very fun job.

(...) 

As I was walking around the control rooms and bowels of the 
building, I couldn't help but notice that the cabling for 
the video side was extremely well organized, labeled, and 
just plain neater when compared to the data side. Like many 
networks, Disney has editing rooms with just about any 
hardware and software tool you can think of, including 
Macintosh-based software too. The editing rooms are also 
segregated on a separate physical network from the general 
corporate LAN - "we don't want any of our content coming 
anywhere near our corporate LAN." And then there is a third 
network for visitors that is separate still and runs outside 
of the Disney firewall. Clearly, these guys have done a 
solid job and know what they are doing.

(...) 

One of the things that Pusateri is pushing the envelope on 
is more storage for their digital content, and pushing isn't 
the word to describe their needs. "We are looking at putting 
all of our content on digital storage, but it wasn't until 
recently that we could go shopping for a petabyte of storage," 
he says. That is a 1000 terabytes, for those of you that don't 
think in that high a magnitude. And you thought you have 
storage problems? 
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Greetings, 
-- Jeroen

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| From:     Jeroen H. Stessen   | E-mail:  Jeroen.Stessen@xxxxxxxxxxx |
| Building: SFJ-5.22 Eindhoven  | Deptmt.: Philips Applied Technologies |
| Phone:    ++31.40.2732739     | Visiting & mail address: Glaslaan 2 |
| Mobile:   ++31.6.44680021     | NL 5616 LW Eindhoven, the Netherlands |
| Pager:    ++31.6.65133818     | Website: http://www.apptech.philips.com/ 
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