Data recorders help hunt for submarines

Data recording solutions are based on Vmetro's Vortex Open Data Recording platform and SANbric rugged rotating media storage device.

Vmetro has shipped data recording solutions to the Radar Systems Division of Telephonics Corporation for the US Navy MH-60R Multi-Mode Automatic Radar Periscope Detection and Discriminator (ARPDD) programme.

The data recording solutions are based on Vmetro's Vortex Open Data Recording platform and SANbric rugged rotating media storage device.

Vmetro's System Engineering Group developed a shock isolation unit (SIU) for deployment of two SANbric storage devices as well as application-specific software.

The SIU that was developed for this application was designed and tested to meet the shock and vibration profile supplied by the customer.

The SIU holds two SANbric units for an aggregate maximum recording rate of 720Mbyte/s and 3.6Tbyte of recording capacity.

"Our System Engineering Group rose to the challenge", says Tom Bohman, Vice President of Business Development for Vmetro, "and in a very short time developed and qualified a unique SIU that allowed long duration recording performance in the demanding helicopter environment using the sealed low-cost high-capacity rotating drives of the SANbric".

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