Data recorders expanded with CompactPCI

VMETRO in Houston is offering a new addition to its high-speed data-recorder family with the VORTEX CompactPCI, which brings 385 megabytes per second and flexibility to the CompactPCI form factor. This addition also introduces the Vortex name for the family of high-speed data recorders. The products formerly known as MDR (a VME-based architecture) and Marlin (an industrial PC-based architecture) will be part of the Vortex family. The Vortex data recorders are preprogrammed or customer programmable based on commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) components and open standards such as VME, CompactPCI, PCI/PCI-X, Fibre Channel, Serial FPDP, and FPDP/FPDP II. The Vortex product range is for solutions with recording and playback speeds from below 100 megabytes per second to several gigabytes per second of sustained bandwidth, with storage scalable to several terabytes using high-performance disk drives. For more information contact VMETRO online at www.vmetro.com.