Fibre Channel provides speedy route to record data

The MDR family comprises a new generation of Fibre Channel-based preconfigured modular data recorders for VME-based systems.

The MDR family comprises a new generation of Fibre Channel-based preconfigured modular data recorders for VME-based systems.

MDR is designed to enable the easy integration of advanced real-time data recording into high-performance data acquisition systems such as those found in surveillance, signal intelligence, and telemetry as well as semiconductor and medical imaging systems.

Leveraging Vmetro's new PowerMidas 5000 I/O controller, MDR has been optimised to provide maximum ease of use with minimum integration effort, and comes preconfigured to accept either front panel data port (FPDP) or serial FPDP data streams.

MDR comes with an easy-to-use web based graphical user interface that makes it easy to network and control multiple recorders as well as manage storage from a central location.

Also bundled is an application library for controlling the MDR from embedded applications.

Unlike other solutions, Vmetro's data recorder families use flexible Fibre Channel SAN technology, allowing associated data recording environments to be easily expanded without performance degradation.

This combination of powerful hardware and software provides users a ready-to-run data recorder capable of recording multiple high-bandwidth streams of data with an aggregate performance of 385Mbyte/s.

As with all Vmetro data recorders, MDR is fully compatible with Vmetro's SAN Access Kit as well as existing Vmetro data recorder environments.

"FPDP and serial FPDP are commonly used in data acquisition systems to carry high-speed sensor data", said Tom Bohman, Vmetro's Vice President of Business Development.

"For systems of this type, MDR makes a great solution because it can be implemented immediately without any programming".

"Systran's serial FPDP technology in conjunction with Vmetro's data recorders provides the means of moving high-speed data over long distances into a data recording storage area network", said Paul Davis, Systran's FibreXtreme Product Manager.

"This is a valuable solution for our joint customers, and we are happy to partner with Vmetro to provide it".

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