Sohonet

Sohonet Ltd.. is an interest group network for the community of television, film and media productions in the UK.

Founded in 1995 by some post-production companies in the London district of Soho, linked Sohonet many film studios and effects houses in the UK to a solid community. The network also provides access to the Internet and broadband connections to other countries. There connections are established by means of optical or radio relay optical waveguides there.

The UK's leading film studios Pinewood Studios, Shepperton Studios, and Warner Bros. Studios, Leavesden have a direct fiber optic cable connection to Sohonet ring, which also communicates internally with fiber optics or even with VDSL.

Sohonet also is a global network with its own connection 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 ability to offer connections via fiber and satellite worldwide.

Sohonet is the winner of numerous industry awards and has been a pioneer in IP-over - ATM. But since there are 10 Gigabit Ethernetzwerke and MPLS technologies, Sohonet is passed over to the ATM instead of the usual method to use Gigabit Ethernetzwerke that has built many cities, the Sohonet.

Today Sohonet is one of the major service providers in connection with Wi- cassette digital intermediate and one of the supporters of the Pro- MPEG media dispatch protocol. How the Internet is Sohonet open to all media files and container formats, QuickTime, DV, MPEG, AES / EBU, MXF via Serial Digital Interface, OMFI, AAF, OpenEXR to 4K DPX data.