Sohonet
Sohonet Ltd. is an advocacy network for the television, film and media production community in the UK .
Founded in 1995 by a number of post-production companies from the London borough of Soho , Sohonet links many film studios and effects houses in Great Britain to one permanent community. The network also offers access to the Internet and broadband connections to other countries. Connections are established by means of optical radio link or fiber optic cables.
The leading British film studios Pinewood Studios , Shepperton Studios and Warner Bros. Studios, Leavesden have a direct fiber optic cable connection to the Sohonet ring, which also communicates internally with fiber optic technology or even with VDSL .
Sohonet is also a global network with its own connections to the United States ( Los Angeles , New York , etc.), the Netherlands , Canada , New Zealand , Australia , France , Germany and Italy ( Cinecittà Studios in Rome ). It also has the option of offering connections worldwide via fiber optics and satellite.
Sohonet has won numerous industry awards and was a pioneer in IP-over- ATM . But since there have been 10 gigabit ethernet networks and MPLS technologies , the Sohonet has switched to using gigabit ethernet networks instead of the usual ATM method, which the Sohonet has set up in many different cities.
Today Sohonet is one of the most important service providers in connection with cassette-free digital intermediate and one of the proponents of the Pro-MPEG media dispatch protocol . Like the Internet, Sohonet is open to all media files and container formats, from QuickTime , DV , MPEG , AES / EBU , MXF to Serial Digital Interface , OMFi , AAF , OpenEXR to 4K DPX data.