Curtiss-Wright Controls Introduces New Rugged VXS Multi-Channel Data Recorder with Solid State Drives
DAYTON, OH – March 24, 2010 -- Curtiss-Wright Controls Electronic Systems, a business group of Curtiss-Wright Controls and a leading designer and manufacturer of rugged deployed subsystems for the aerospace and defense market, has introduced the new Vortex VR-6511S8, a 6U VXS (VITA 41) multi-channel data recorder with solid state drives. This recording engine board features a Power® Architecture processor and a Xilinx® FPGA, and supports up to eight (8) SATA controllers that can be striped together to create a high-speed rugged data recording system. The VR-6511S8 enables system designers to easily and rapidly integrate a rugged COTS data recorder system into rugged deployed applications such as radar, sonar and image processing. The Vortex VR-6511S8 is the newest member of Curtiss-Wright Controls’ Vortex family of storage systems designed to support demanding military applications including instrumentation recording, mission recording, SIGINT/ELINT recording in both rugged and lab environments.
“The Vortex VR-6511S8 is designed for the most demanding I/O intensive embedded military systems,” said David Dietz, vice president and general manager of Curtiss-Wright Controls Electronic Systems. “This rugged board’s compact design and the connectivity to solid state drives provides a COTS multi-channel data recorder system that can be easily and quickly deployed in harsh environments.”
The on-board Xilinx® Virtex®-5 SX95T FPGA is supported with 512MB of local SDRAM and provides eight (8) high-speed serial links to the VXS P0 connector. These high speed serial links are used for up to eight (8) SATA controllers, connected one (1) disk per P0 high-speed serial link. The SATA controllers can be striped together to provide a high-speed rugged storage system. The Vortex VR-6511S8 is designed for use with Curtiss-Wright Controls' VXS-4SSD VXS SATA Disk Carriers, which provide 4 SATA drives per 6U slot. With available drives, the recording system can support up to 4 TB in 3 VXS slots using rotating drives or up to 2 TB in 3 VXS slots using solid state drives.
For system expansion, the Vortex VR-6511S8 provides two (2) PMC/XMC mezzanine sites that support a wide variety of I/O such as sFPDP, Gigabit Ethernet, 10GbE, and analog I/O.
Vortex Software
The Vortex VR-6511S8 is supported with comprehensive software that enables data to be manipulated or analyzed while being recorded or during playback. The Customer Programmable Recorder software application provides full access to a well-defined and fully documented interface to the data before it is written to or read from the disk. The board’s XMLRPC API enables complete control of the system by the customer’s application, including the number of channels to acquire, disk grouping, playback from offsets in the recording, and disk group management. Copying data to external storage is initiated through the control API on a per file basis.
Vortex VR-6511S8 Features:
Compact Rugged Data Recorder with up to 2TB with SSD and up to 4TB with HDD
VXS (VITA 41) recording and playback system
Embedded storage using 6U VXS Quad 2.5” SATA solid state or rotating hard disk drive storage
High-speed off-load to commercial Storage Area Networks (SANs)
For pricing for the Vortex VR-6511S8 please contact the factory. Availability is Q4 2009
For editorial information regarding Curtiss-Wright Controls Electronic Systems products or services, contact John Wranovics, public relations director, Curtiss-Wright Controls, Tel: (925) 640-6402; email. jwranovics@curtisswright.com.
Inquiries: Please forward all Sales and reader service inquiries to Matt Young, Curtiss-Wright Controls Electronic Systems, Tel: (937) 252-5601 x1363; Fax (937) 258-2729; email: systeminfo@curtisswright.com.
Curtiss-Wright Controls Debuts 5th Generation Single-Slot Physical Layer Switch
DAYTON, OH – June 14, 2010 -- Curtiss-Wright Controls Electronic Systems (CWCEL), a business group of Curtiss-Wright Controls, and the originator of the Physical Layer Switch (PLS), has announced the availability of its new SLX4000 non-blocking, multi-protocol PLS. The SLX4000 is a “5th Generation” Layer 1 PLS packaged in a small, compact rack-mountable 1.5U single-slot package. The SLX4000 is able to connect any serial digital signal input, up to 10 Gb/s, to any single output. Its flexible, expandable crossbar switch performance enables users to control their network configurations while reducing set-up time, limiting network errors, and cutting costs. Designed for industrial, defense and aerospace applications, the SLX4000 speeds and eases the integration of high performance switching.
“Curtiss-Wright Controls' SLX4000 delivers optimal switching capability, unmatched signal integrity, and program flexibility from development to deployment,” said David Dietz, vice president and general manager of Curtiss-Wright Controls Electronic Systems.
Because the protocol or structure of data routed through the switch passes through unaltered, the SLX4000 can be used with many different types of networks and signals.
The SLX4000 can be configured using one of CWCEL’s family of GLX/SLX port cards. The port card supports 48 (12 if 10 Gbps) channels of I/O. Available port cards include a variety of serial data transmission needs including 1, 2, 4, and 8 and 4 Gb/s Fibre Channel, 10 Gb/s Ethernet, 10/100/1000 Ethernet, Serial FPDP as well as many other serial digital signals.
The SLX4000 switch comes equipped with hot-swappable power supplies, a port card and SFPs to enable users to quickly add or replace parts without impacting system up-time. A Compact Flash module acts as the switch's disk drive for the CPU and can be removed for security reasons.
Key Advantages of the SLX4000 PLS Approach
- The SLX4000 supports automated testing to significantly reduce network errors. Using a password protected connection via Ethernet (or RS-232) the user can remotely change topologies and emulate optical power loss or cable breaks. Scripts may be written in PERL, TCL, or other popular languages using the simple, but powerful CLI.
- When connected to the SLX4000, expensive resources such as network analyzers, sniffers, and data recorders can be shared among users and departments, resulting in significant cost reductions.
- The SLX4000 supports flexible media conversion, enabling, for example, copper media input to be output using optical media. 850 nm optical can be easily changed to 1550 nm optical for DWDM applications.
- Another benefit of a PLS is the ability to “wire once”. After connecting all network devices under test, all topology changes or fault tests can be simply applied using the switch via the GUI and CLI, delivering significant reductions in system configuration time costs.
SLX4000 Physical Layer Switch Features:
- Multi-protocol, multi-rate support
- Point-to-point (full or half duplex), multicast (1 to many), and loop (with auto loop feature) topologies
- Non-blocking, any input port to any output port(s)
- Hot swappable port cards, power supplies, and transceivers
- Media conversion copper-to-optical
- Web-based Graphical User Interface (GUI) and Command Line Interface (CLI)
- Supports unlimited GUI and CLI (Telnet or SSH) sessions
- Alias names for each port and for groups of ports
SLX4000 Web-based GUI
The SLX4000 web-based GUI software greatly simplifies the configuration management. Simply log on to web-based GUI via you Internet browser to access the switch. Configurations can be saved and restored on-the-fly. The web-based GUI also provides the user with real-time monitoring of the unit’s chassis and port cards.
Sales & Editorial Contacts
For more information on this product or our other high-integrity computing solutions:
Sales Phone (U.S.): 1-800-252-5601 x1363
Sales Phone (Int'l): +1-937-252-5601 x1363
Sales Info: systeminfo@curtisswright.com
Product Info: http://www.cwcelectronicsystems.com/slx4000.html
For pricing and availablility of the SLX4000, please contact the factory.
For editorial information regarding Curtiss-Wright Controls Electronic Systems products or services, contact John Wranovics, public relations director, Curtiss-Wright Controls, Tel: (925) 640-6402; email. jwranovics@curtisswright.com.
Inquiries: Please forward all sales and reader service inquiries to Matt Young, Curtiss-Wright Controls Electronic Systems, Tel: (937) 252-5601 x1363; Fax (937) 258-2729; email: systeminfo@curtisswright.com
About Curtiss-Wright Controls Electronic Systems
Curtiss-Wright Controls Electronic Systems is one of the industry’s most comprehensive and experienced single sources for rugged, integrated solutions that are qualified for military platforms. Our product and service expertise includes Motion Control, Network Centric Computing, Rate Sensor Assemblies, Vehicle Management Computers, High-Speed Recording & Storage, and Electronic Manufacturing Services. The Electronic Systems group serves the defense, aerospace, commercial and industrial markets and is part of Curtiss-Wright Controls Inc.
About Curtiss-Wright Controls, Inc.
Headquartered in Charlotte, N.C., Curtiss-Wright Controls is the motion control segment of Curtiss-Wright Corporation (NYSE: CW). With manufacturing facilities around the world, Curtiss-Wright Controls is a leading technology-based organization providing niche motion control products, subsystems and services internationally for the aerospace and defense markets. For more information, visit www.cwcontrols.com.
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