Infrastructure: It's Not Just For Urban Planners Any More

Speaker: C. Jason Mancebo, SGI Media Industries: http://www.sgi.com/products/media/pdf/protected_storage.pdf
  • Date & time: Thursday, 23 May 2002
    • 6:00 - 7:30 PM No-Host Pizza Dinner
    7:30 PM Program
    Meeting organizer: Roy Trumbull
     
  • Program:

    • Broadcasters and facilities are increasingly using "information technology" (IT) for video and audio, employing a profession that used to be limited to mundane tasks such as accounting and payroll. The good news is, advanced IT solutions for stations and production houses can be less expensive and more easily scalable than traditional dedicated equipment. The bad news is, "real time" is a concept foreign to most corporate IT managers who are compelled to enter what is for them a new world of data infrastructure.

    May's discussion will focus on the benefits and concerns of real-time, IT-based infrastructures and technologies for direct-server editing, shared storage-area networking (SAN), and similar technologies. Building robust, latent resistant infrastructures is the key to interoperating in the future.

    Have some pizza and drinks and hear Jason's ideas. All businesses of any size in broadcasting, video, and audio will eventually have to adapt to what Jason is talking about, so this is a good tutorial for all of us.

    Jason is the senior engineering manager for the Media Industries Division at SGI. He leads a team of engineers tasked with driving SGI's expertise in the media industries, including broadcast, video-on-demand (VOD), interactive video, digital cinema, and content creation.

    He brings to us 20 years of experience in broadcast and video, including engineering and operations, technical management, and work as an Emmy award-winning television editor. Prior to joining SGI, Jason led the applications engineering effort at Chyron, where he developed broadcast software applications and equipment.

    He has authored many white papers and periodical articles, is a member of working groups and standards committees, and is an active member of the SMPTE, currently serving as the treasurer of the San Francisco Section.
     

    Peter Hammar
    SMPTE-SF Secretary
     
     

    Welcome:

    SMPTEsf  welcomes members and friends to attend without charge. Reservations are not required for this meeting.

    Location:

    A VENUE WITH A MENU: Many people don't have time to eat as they rush from work to SMPTE meetings. For that reason, the officers of the SMPTE-SF have tried hard over the past few years to arrange for refreshments at our meetings. That gets expensive for a volunteer organization, although sometimes corporate sponsors generously supply food and drink. This month, we're trying something different: you can have some fun with pizza, other goodies, and drinks (like, beer, eh?) while enjoying a technical presentation in a relaxed atmosphere. It's "no host"—you buy—but you've got to get dinner somewhere!

    This Round Table has a separate, quiet meeting room closed off from the main area that will neatly accommodate us.

    Here's an interesting fact in culinary history: This Menlo Park restaurant was the first-ever Round Table, the one that started the chain.
     

    Round Table Pizza
    1225 El Camino Real [at Oak Grove Ave.],
    Menlo Park, CA 94025-4208

    PARKING: The Round Table in Menlo Park has two dozen spaces of its own, plus there's a huge, free municipal parking lot only a few yards from the restaurant, behind the buildings on the south side of Oak Grove Ave.
     
     

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