Conduant Introduces Rack Mount Streaming Data Recorder

Conduant Corporation, developer of direct-to-disk, long-duration recording and playback systems, introduced its Big River RTX16 Rack Mount Streaming Digital Recording System.

It features Conduant’s StreamStor Amazon Express high-speed recording and playback technology in an industrial 19" rack-mount chassis that includes a PC server for integration of user supplied data acquisition boards or other peripheral options.

The Big River RTX16 Digital Recording System can be configured with up to 16 individually removable hard disk drives with total data storage capacity up to 32 terabytes.  An on-board Dual Core Xeon processor with 4 gigabytes of random access memory can be used to handle command and control as well as data manipulation.

Multiple interfaces are available on the RTX16 Digital Recording System including PCI Express, Optical High Speed Serial, Copper High Speed Serial, LVDS and PCI. Various protocols can be supported including SerialFPDP, SerialLite II and Ethernet.

The RTX16 supports a variety
of data streaming applications including:

• Digital Signal Processing (DSP)
• High speed data acquisition
• Radar and sonar
• Telemetry
• Satellite download
• High resolution video

"The RTX16 takes us to another level in providing flexibility to our users," said Ken Owens, Conduant founder and CEO. "We’ve integrated the best of Conduant technology with a commercial chassis and server hardware to produce a customizable digital recording system for commercial, defense, research and commercial applications.  Our clients will find the high reliability and scalability they are accustomed to with Conduant digital data recorders."

The Big River RTX16 Digital Recording System includes redundant power supplies for built-in protection against a single power supply failure. Expansion PCI Express slots accommodate optional third-party I/O and/or acquisition boards. The StreamStor Application Program Interface (API) allows for the integration of StreamStor Storage Controllers.

The RTX16 is currently available.