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Inter BEE 2016 Exhibition Report

Exhibited at International Broadcast Equipment Exhibition 【Inter BEE 2016】which was held from 16th November, 2016 until 18th November, 2016 at Makuhari Messe, Japan. Inter BEE 2016 had a very big success with 38,000 visitors which was a new record. UNITEX booth was also very active with lots of visitors. We really thank everyone for visiting our booth.

products

1U LTO Rack mount Tape Drive
LT70 SAS-RM

LTO Data Copy Software
UNITEX FASTapeLT

Media Migration System
TMS 2800

The leading products were 4K/8K, HDR, VR, Drones.
Awareness of “LTO” as archive media was increased.

Lots of 4K/8K products were already released at NAB Show 2016.
That momentum has continued. Accordingly awareness of LTO among visitors
has been increasing.

Especially expectation of LTO-7 from the front line of broadcasting/video
production has been getting higher. One of the reasons is that current LTO-6`s
capacity is not enough to handle 4K/8K and higher resolution data

Focusing on management of archive media

Until last year we received many basic questions such as “What is LTO?”.
But this year those questions have been changed to “How should we manage
the increasing archive data?”, “We want to structure the system with
which we can search and take out data easily by managing active WORM data
on discs and cold data which was archived to LTO tape transparently”.

Hearing these questions, we deeply felt that we should make the increasing tape
media’s storage/management easier according to expansion of use of LTO
products. From this point of view we think that UNITEX’s archive solution which is
created by our unique software will be utilized effectively.

Proposal for LTO archive solution by taking each front line situation such as actual shooting, receive/transfer data, and storage/management into consideration

Showing this year`s theme “Strong Archive”, we displayed World`s first USB interface LTO drive, Archive software, BD/DVD products, and the related solution. We introduced our systems which enable storage for increasing large amounts of data from drones and VR etc, transfer/receive/share large amounts of data at the editing spot, and migration of video data which are dispersed to various media as old assets to the latest LTO.

Video data is very important asset,
so we keep it effectively, not just storage.

The most remarkable displays were “FASTapeLT” which enables simultaneous
copy/verify to other media and “Archive LT” which is our high grade archive
software. We have developed our software by focusing on “How fast”,
“How secure”,but we have now focused on usability more in our development to
realize “How easy and how effective we manage 4K/8K data” by adding new
functions such as “Offline media management”, “Consolidated/Partition archive
which enables increase transfer speed of archiving large amounts of file”,
“Folder watch which set trigger based on folder capacity and number of files”,
and “Schedule implementation”.

We can also recommend “ArchiveLT” to users who would like to incorporate
archive operated by LTO into the existing system because this software enables
API and command cooperation.

Summary

This time we received lots of customers who had a variety of purposes. And we
really had fruitful exhibition because we could listen to the comments, current
issues, and expectation for our products etc. from those customers.

We thank all the collaboration partners, JEITA, IBM, Lenovo, milestone, SONY,
Fujifilm, Oracle, Itochu Cable for your enormous cooperation for our products
at Inter BEE.

We, UNITEX, do our best to work on storage solution according to customer’s
voice and expectation continuously.

Again, thank you very much for visiting our booth.

JEITA booth

Sony product at UNITEX booth

IBM and Milestone product at UNITEX booth

UNITEX LT70 USB at Fujifilim booth

UNITEX LT70 USB at Oracle booth

UNITEX LT70 USB at Itochu Cable booth

That’s all for Exhibition report on Inter BEE 2016.
If you have any inquiries and questions, please feel free to contact the followings.

UNITEX Corporation
System Solution Sales Department
wwsales@unitex.co.jp