Xyratex Chosen by EDI for Anti-Terrrorism Surveillance at 2008 Olympics

Xyratex Ltd. announced
that EDI Technology, a storage integrator, is using the Xyratex F5412E
RAID system for online and archive storage of video surveillance at the
Beijing Capital International Airport. The Xyratex F5412E 4Gb
FC-SAS/SATA-II RAID product delivers EDI the storage scalability,
reliability and throughput performance to also support crucial
anti-terrorism and security efforts at the airport during the Beijing
2008 Olympics.

“Helping ensure the highest level
of security at Beijing Capital International Airport during the Olympic
Games is paramount to EDI, and we selected the Xyratex F5412E solution
over competing solutions because of its high-performance connectivity,
flexible support and unmatched reliability, which the project
requires,” said Mike Su, CEO of EDI. “The cutting-edge video
surveillance technologies being applied at Beijing Airport are critical
components to its anti-terrorism and security measures. Having Xyratex
as our data storage infrastructure solution delivers us a greater level
of confidence and performance that we need for a project of this scale.”
 
EDI
is a major storage integrator (SI) in the video editing and CCTV
markets, as well as other vertical areas such as telecom, web services,
financial services, oil & gas and life sciences. Using the Xyratex
F5412E, EDI will benefit from the product’s combination of Fibre
Channel connectivity with Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) and Serial ATA
(SATA) drive technology to deliver high reliability and scalability. By
leveraging the SAS full duplex, point-to-point architecture with
dedicated connections, the F5412E delivers maximum data throughput,
thereby providing faster, more responsive applications. Additionally,
the F5412E sustains maximum throughput (MB/s) for high band-width
applications like the video surveillance efforts EDI is supporting for
Beijing Capital International Airport as well as database-intensive
online transaction processing.
 
“Xyratex and EDI have
successfully worked together for more than ten years, and we are
looking forward to helping ensure critical security measures for the
Olympics are met and that the games can be enjoyed around the world,”
said Todd Gresham, executive vice president of Networked Storage
Solutions for Xyratex. “We also see this engagement as an opportunity
to continue our growth in the fast-growing video surveillance market as
well as growing our already well-respected reputation in China.”
 

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