Thunderbolt Enhanced DIT Station Rogue

Sonnet Technologies, Inc. announced the 2012 NAB Show debut of the new DIT Station Rogue from DIT Station Ltd, an ultra-portable and compact on-set data management and playback workstation to come in May and featuring Sonnet’s advanced Thunderbolt expansion, media ingest, and rugged storage products.

Sonnet will demonstrate the DIT Station Rogue in its booth at the LVCC.

The Rogue’s ultra-portable design integrates Sonnet’s Echo Express Pro Thunderbolt Expansion Chassis for PCIe Cards with a RED ROCKET transcoding and playout card (or popular video I/O cards). These devices are connected to an enclosed 13-inch MacBook Pro platform via a Thunderbolt cable, with RAID storage provided by Sonnet’s super-rugged and vibration-isolated Fusion F3 storage system. Also included is Sonnet’s Echo ExpressCard Thunderbolt Adapter to ingest files from SxS cards, and readers for CompactFlash cards and REDMAG 1.8-inch SSD drives.

The Rogue marries powerful processing and ingest capabilities with an onboard WiFi router, an iPad mount, and full external I/O interfaces, all housed in a military-grade case with custom ventilation.

This combination empowers users to:

• receive footage directly from the camera and download it through three ready-connected, high-speed media readers built directly into the deck
• perform data management tasks; view full-resolution playback
• perform on-set image adjustment; and
• wirelessly deliver dailies right out of the case.

Facilitated by Sonnet’s Thunderbolt solutions, the Rogue’s Thunderbolt connections enable the workstation to achieve speeds well beyond that of a conventional laptop-based workflow, taking advantage of both the connectivity and portability.

Ready to go in 30 seconds, the Rogue eliminates the time necessary for digital image technicians to set up, take down, and keep track of all the individual components of traditional equipment – leaving them more time to liaise with the DP and director. The Rogue is a all-in-one tool for any workflow, anywhere and anytime, and it works through the integration of Sonnet’s technology.