Multiple Redundancies for Non-Stop Operation
The Granite 5000 has many redundancies as standard equipment for non-stop on-air productions:
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Redundant power supplies are standard on the control panel, switcher and server.
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Redundant Soft-Panel if the control panel ever stops.
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Recovery system hard drive and back-up software.
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Hardware RAID 10 storage array of four media drives in the Granite Server for increased efficiency and
redundancy, and enables a clip to continue playing without interruption if one or two drives should ever fail.
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Redundant control (network and serial) enables the Granite Switcher to keep switching all cameras and other
external sources and outputs from the Granite Control Panel if the Granite Server should ever fail. This is fail-safe
mode. Note that when in fail-safe mode, you are switching between unprocessed inputs, and so if you are
producing for example a 1080i show, care should be taken not to select an SD camera or other non-1080i source.
Standard Features, Continued
Broadcast Pix Granite 5000 Installation Planning Guide Jan 2011
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