Sohonet

Sohonet is a community-of-interest network for the television, film and media production community.

For other uses see Sohonet (disambiguation)

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

Within Soho, Sohonet makes use of free-space optical communications links.

The leading British film studios, Pinewood Studios, Shepperton Studios and Leavesden Studios, have direct optical fiber connectivity to the Sohonet London Fiber Ring, with campus connectivity on the sites provided via fiber and VDSL technologies.

With private connectivity to the United States, (Los Angeles, New York, etc), Canada, New Zealand, Australia, Netherlands, Germany Italy (Rome Cinecitta studios) and the ability to provide connectivity to locations worldwide via fiber and satellite links, Sohonet is a global media network.

Sohonet is the winner of numerous industry awards, and was a pioneering user of ATM networking. Sohonet has transitioned to using Gigabit Ethernet, 10 Gigabit Ethernet and MPLS technologies over an optical backbone, stretching from Heathrow to Docklands, and out internationally.

All types of media file formats, from Quicktime DV MPEG AES/EBU MXF through Serial Digital Interface , OMFi, to 4k DPX files are supported.