We installed 10Gb ports in all of our offices as well as the edit suites. Instead of buying a switch we purchased a SAN that had four 10Gb ports installed and room for expansion. Our computers and phones still use standard Cat5e ports for internet. In order to keep costs down we knew we wanted to use the 10Gb ports only for our shared editing environment. The one major advantage fiber has over Cat6a is that fiber can be run longer distances. There are some challenges to building this network and it is more expensive than Cat5e, but it is far less expensive than running fiber. 10Gb/s internet, is in theory, ten times faster than 1Gb/s. In a shared post-production environment we need to share large amounts of data over a network very quickly. This is perfectly fine for surfing the internet, streaming video online, etc.
(Blue cables in the photo are Cat6a, Orange is Cat5e) 10Gb NetworkĪ normal ethernet port is 1Gb/s, also referred to as gigabit ethernet. When used in a 10GBASE-T format, Cat6a is cable of creating a 10Gb/s network if your runs are less than 100 meters (About 330'). From a practical standpoint, it's not as flexible as Cat5e and it's a little tricker to run. It has the same eight wires that you'll find in Cat5e cable, but they're thicker and they're shielded. If you're unfamiliar with 6a, it's a heavier gauge data cable. We purchased 1000' spools of Cat5e and Cat6a. In the event you have a bad cable or a cable gets cut it's nice to have a backup already run.) It's amazing how many connection points you need. Our network includes (12) 10Gb/s Cat6a ports and (24) Cat5e 1Gb/s ports. The renovation was the perfect opportunity to build our 10Gb network, mainly because there would be large holes in the walls and ceilings that would make it easier to run cables.Įven though we're a small office, we ran nearly 1000' of Cat5e and 750' of Cat6a cable.
The renovation included replacing our existing studio with production offices, adding a new logging station and third edit suite as well as future graphics workstation.
Consolidate with davinci resolve lite upgrade#
We knew we were going to complete the upgrade during a major renovation to our office. This project started with months of planning. In this article we're going to briefly touch on how we upgraded our network and then our Post-Production Manager Julia is going to go over our editing workflow and new SAN/NAS environment. It was a project that was a long time coming. In January we completed an extensive rebuild of our IT infrastructure.
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