SpycerBox Cell SAN Delivers Data Rates for Formats Up to 8K

With the launch of SpycerBox Cell, Rohde & Schwarz DVS GmbH presents at NAB a new level of performance and density: 30 SSD, SAS or SATA drives mounted on a tray-based carrier system and housed in a single chassis measuring 1U high.

In addition, the drives can be maintained and hot-swapped during live operation.

SpycerBox Cell is a SAN for uncompressed and compressed post production and broadcast formats – whether for SD, HD, 2K, 4K or 8K. The vast quantities of data produced at higher resolutions can be stored effortlessly as SpycerBox Cell’s redundant architecture is scalable and cascadable.

A single SpycerBox Cell offers a guaranteed data throughput of over 3GB/s and a capacity of up to 36TB with SAS which is scalable using multiple SpycerBox Cell systems. The storage density and scalability is advantageous to post-production studios, digital cinema mastering houses, and broadcast studios that want a future-ready and flexible storage environment.

The company designed the SpycerBox Cell to be modular and redundant so the storage solution can be expanded easily when requirements become more demanding.

The integrated SAN Remo web-based user interface offers convenient configuration of the hardware and software components. It also lets users monitor the system status, bandwidth levels, and the system’s performance.

Jorge Ríos, product manager at Rohde & Schwarz DVS, said: “With SpycerBox Cell, we are offering our post production and TV production customers maximum storage density and robustness combined with easy scalability and redundancy.”