Enhanced TV, Internet Streaming, HDTV, e-commerce — the convergence of television and the Internet has created a New Media industry, and the pace of change in this industry mandates a new infrastructure that is flexible, open, and cost-effective. The rapid emergence of new technologies, new business models, and new partnerships enable television program producers and distributors to be innovative in their pursuit of new revenue — yet these opportunities can only be realized if a facility's infrastructure has the capability to support them.

The Omneon Video Area Network is an integrated approach to networking and storage that provides infrastructure for the ingest, routing, storage, sharing, and distribution of multiple formats of digital video, audio, and related data.

The Omneon Video Area Network consists of modular components that can be combined to create a network and shared storage infrastructure to meet the unique requirements of any size operation.

• Directors And Stores provide storage for multiple digital video and audio formats, yielding more efficient management and utilization of storage resources. Using the Omneon Extended File System, multiple Directors combine to transparently expand the bandwidth and size of the file system, enabling the support of thousands of hours of storage, delivered to hundreds of transmission channels or content producers.
• Switches route multiple formats of video, audio, and data to and from the Directors or directly between has the following fundamental advantages: devices in the network. Switches can be added to increase the overall network bandwidth.
• Mediaports provide the encoding and decoding as well as network connection from video devices that do not natively support IEEE 1394.