Sohonet

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'''Sohonet''' is a [[community-of-interest network]] for the television, film and media production community based in the Soho area of London.<ref name="Durmaz, Jan. 2015">{{cite journal |last1=Durmaz |first1=S. Bahar |title=Analyzing the Quality of Place: Creative Clusters in Soho and Beyoğlu |journal=Journal of Urban Design |date=January 2015 |volume=20 |issue=1 |pages=93–124 |doi=10.1080/13574809.2014.972348}}</ref>

Founded in 1995 by a group of [[post-production]] companies, Sohonet links many of the British [[film studio]]s to London's [[post-production]] community. Sohonet also provides access to the [[Internet]], and private wide-area links to other countries.

The system links film and media companies, TV broadcasters, publishers, Internet providers, graphic designers and recording studios via seamless transatlantic fibre connections to a global media network<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Graham |first1=Stephen |title=Global Grids of Glass: On Global Cities, Telecommunications and Planetary Urban Networks |journal=Urban Studies |date=May 1999 |volume=36 |issue=5-6 |pages=929–949 |doi=10.1080/0042098993286}}</ref> in the [[United States]], ([[Los Angeles, California|Los Angeles]], [[New York City]], [[Hawaii]], [[Chicago]], [[Seattle]], [[Atlanta]], etc.), [[Canada]] ([[Vancouver]], [[Toronto]], [[Montreal]]), [[New Zealand]], [[Australia]], [[France]], [[Netherlands]], [[Germany]], [[Spain]], [[Singapore]] and [[Italy]] ( [[Rome]]) and the ability to provide connectivity to locations worldwide via [[Fibre Optic]] links.<ref name="Durmaz, Jan. 2015" />

Leading British film studios, [[Pinewood Studios]], [[Shepperton Studios]], [[Three Mills Studios]], [[Twickenham Film Studios]], [[Longcross Studios]] and [[Warner Bros. Studios Leavesden|Warner Bros. Studios, Leavesden]], have direct [[optical fiber]] connectivity to the Sohonet [[London]] Fiber Ring, with campus connectivity on the sites provided via [[Optical fiber|fiber]] and [[VDSL]] technologies. As well as may other studios globally, Australian examples [[Village Roadshow Studios]], [[Melbourne Central City Studios#Melbourne Central City Studios|Melbourne City Studios]], and [[Los Angeles, California|Los Angeles]] shooting film studios [[Hollywood Center Studios]], and [[Red Studios Hollywood]], as well as [[Warner Bros.]], [[Universal Pictures|Universal Studios]], [[HBO]] to name a few.

A pioneering user of IP-over-[[Asynchronous Transfer Mode|ATM]] networking, Sohonet has since moved away from ATM to using [[gigabit Ethernet]], [[10 Gigabit Ethernet]] and [[Multiprotocol Label Switching|MPLS]] technologies, including the use of [[wavelength division multiplexing]] on backbone connections. Sohonet is one of the pioneers of tapeless [[digital intermediate]], and one of the instigators of the [[media dispatch protocol]] developed by the Pro-MPEG consortium, which later became a [[SMPTE]] standard. All types of [[list of file formats|media file formats]], from [[QuickTime]] [[DV (video format)|DV]] [[MPEG]] [[AES/EBU]] [[Material Exchange Format|MXF]] through [[OMFi]], [[Advanced Authoring Format|AAF]], [[OpenEXR]], to 4k [[DPX]] files are supported.

Sohonet has its own private optical fibre networks in several cities and provides high speed object storage based on [[OpenStack]] Swift, in number of locations worldwide [[Los Angeles, California|Los Angeles]], [[London]], and [[Sydney]]. On top of these stores, Sohonet operates a fast file transfer service called FileRunner. Sohonet also provides high speed secure connections, referred to as FastLane, into a number of public cloud providers [[Google Cloud Platform]], [[SoftLayer]], and [[Amazon Web Services]], to enable large scale [[Cloud computing]] for [[3D rendering]].

In 2020, Sohonet won a [[Primetime Engineering Emmy Awards|Primetime Engineering Emmy Award]] for its collaborative video review and editing platform, ClearView Flex.<ref>{{cite web |title=Engineering Emmy Award Winners |url=https://www.emmys.com/awards/engineering-emmys/winners |publisher=The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences |access-date=7 April 2021}}</ref> The Clearview Flex platform was also among the winners of the Advanced Imaging Society's Entertainment Technology Lumiere Awards for 2020.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Advanced Imaging Society Announces its Entertainment Technology Lumiere Awards |url=https://theadvancedimagingsociety.com/11th-annual-tech-distinguished-leadership-awards/ |website=The Advanced Imaging Society |publisher=The Advance Imaging Society |access-date=10 May 2021}}</ref>

In 2022, Sohonet won an additional [[Primetime Engineering Emmy Awards|Primetime Engineering Emmy Award]] for its ClearView Pivot remote collaboration tool, Clearview Pivot.<ref>{{cite web |title=Engineering Emmy Award Winners |url=https://www.emmys.com/awards/engineering-emmys/winners |publisher=The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences}}</ref>

== External links ==
* [https://www.sohonet.com/ Official website]

==References==
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[[Category:Online mass media companies of the United Kingdom]]
[[Category:Television and film post-production companies]]

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