Bright Technologies Introduced BrightDrive Astella Nx Pro NAS

Bright Technologies, Inc. announced plans to introduce BrightDrive Astella Nx Pro, a compact NAS appliance that performs like a FC SAN, at NAB 2015.

The solution enables both entry-level and established post-production and broadcast facilities to implement a concurrent high-resolution real-time workflow utilizing familiar Ethernet components, in a simple economical NAS appliance. NAB attendees will be amongst the first to see BrightDrive Astella Nx Pro in action.

“Savvy media professionals use NAB to shop for technologies that will save their companies time or money, or add to their productivity,” said Shawn Clark, director sales, Bright Technologies. “As workflows in post-production and broadcast have adopted higher compression rates, many users have turned to a simpler NAS appliance approach because of its lower cost, simpler deployment, and lower maintenance compared to a FC SAN. We are delighted to bring BrightDrive AstellaNx Pro to market at NAB and offer a financially attractive solution that doesn’t compromise quality or performance.“

The BrightDrive Astella Nx Pro shares a single NFS or SMB mount, provides up to six concurrent 2K streams (or up to 2 streams of 4K) via 10GbE from a cost-effective 4U enclosure in capacities up to 150TB. This performance breakthrough leverages mixed drive types in a tiered strategy and state-of-the-art RAID technology to provide unprecedented real-time multi-stream performance previously only dreamed about, from a compact NAS appliance. The BrightDrive AstellaNx Pro is like a high-capacity SAN in a box – without the FC fabric.

Sporting up to eight 10GbE ports, direct connection of up to eight application client machines in a star topology is supported. Or simply leverage existing LAN infrastructure (including switches) for virtual plug-n-play deployment.