LOS ANGELES - Sohonet (www.sohonet.com) has launched Media Fabric, a fully-managed infrastructure suite that unifies networking, cloud access, security and data movement for film, television and post workflows. Previously offered as separate services, Media Fabric brings Sohonet’s complete infrastructure portfolio together under one operational model to give studios, creative service providers and production teams a single, secure foundation to rely on as projects scale across locations and into the cloud.
With productions becoming more distributed and tools moving to the cloud, Media Fabric is designed to help close that gap by replacing the complexity of coordinating multiple vendors and point solutions with one managed suite.
“The demands on media infrastructure have changed: more locations, cloud-heavy workflows, rising security needs, and fewer spare hands to support it all,” said Chuck Parker, CEO of Sohonet. “Media Fabric is the invisible thread that holds it together, unifying connectivity, cloud access, security and data movement into one managed suite of services designed for how production teams work today.”
Media Fabric spans the core infrastructure layers that creative and technical teams depend on. Services are grouped into three areas: connectivity & access, security & compliance, and data movement & collaboration. Media-optimized network connectivity, flexible multi-cloud access, and LAN and wi-fi services keep teams connected on-set, in the studio and across remote locations. Studio-grade security, secure remote access, and colocation and data center services protect content and maintain compliance throughout the production lifecycle. And in terms of data movement, always-on media sync across locations and remote shared workspaces help ensure teams can work with the right assets wherever they are.
A key element of Media Fabric’s data movement capabilities is Sohonet’s partnership with Resilio, whose technology powers high-speed file synchronization and transfer across distributed production environments. The integration of Resilio’s platform into Media Fabric completes Sohonet’s data movement suite. The Resilio partnership ensures that large media files can sync continuously and predictably without the bottlenecks of traditional transfer methods. Combined with Sohonet’s managed connectivity and security services, this gives Media Fabric customers a fully-integrated path from content creation through delivery.
Media Fabric is available now. Customers adopting multiple Media Fabric services can benefit from bundle-based pricing, with discounts of up to 30 percent as they add more services.