Other participants included Sarnoff, Comark, MCI, Philips, Sun, Thomson, and NJN Television. The basic architecture consists of a number of parts as shown below. Its directory service helps find video servers, monitors, etc. and determine their capabilities.
Users can then reserve equipment and network resources for immediate use, or for a future time.
It is the responsibility of the SRM to establish and maintain the appropriate network connections. The part of the studio we have been most involved is the Content Manager subsystem. Incoming video programs are first stored on a number of Media Servers. The Browse Stations then use the indices to allow searching and browsing of studio's video content. Searches can be based on keywords, face count, camera motion, and shot length, among others.