What am I doing wrong?

[Bob Zelin]

Hi Ian,
It was great talking with you. We are looking into your problem. We will not forget.

Bob Zelin

[Ian Liuzzi-fedun]

It was nice talking to you as well. As I said – you are the man.
Thanks

[Ian Liuzzi-fedun]

Any luck?

Also, did CIprico systems go out of business?

[Ian Liuzzi-fedun]

I haven’t heard from you in a while. Any luck at all?

[Steve Modica]

Just guessing here, but I’d say your storage is probably the issue. People don’t understand that bandwidth is not what’s required to keep up with video. It’s latency on a per frame basis. Certainly that adds up to a certain bandwidth, but someone can have a very high bandwidth, but very choppy (IE variable) latency. We see it all the time.

AFP works great for capturing. It keeps the latency down, it handles security and authentication and it is very efficient in 10.5 and 10.6 (it seems to scale much better in 10.6).

I spend most of my day testing different storage protocols and solutions looking at latency. SSDs are next. We have to figure out how to make those handle this stuff.

[Steve Modica]

One more comment:
MetaSan/MetaLan are really meant to act as scalable replacements for Xsan/AFP. The idea is that you could create a SAN (with metaSAN) and then export than SAN with multiple servers using MetaLAN. It’s good for big environments where they want a redundant, clustered type server. In my experience (which isn’t that much), metaLan is not faster than AFP for a single system setup.

[Ian Liuzzi-fedun]

GREAT. So why isn’t it working for me?