Curtiss-Wright Controls Defense Solutions’ Rugged Data Recorders include video recorders, customer programmable, fixed feature, and custom recorders. These subsystem solutions include COTS and turnkey COTS subsystems from laboratory development to rugged deployment systems. Depending on your program requirements, Curtiss-Wright also provides custom program specific system design, integration, and training. Curtiss-Wright also offers complementary rugged data storage products utilizing solid state and rotating media for use with our Military Data Recorder subsystems.
Vortex Fixed Feature Recorders
Vortex Fixed Feature Recorders allow high-volume, streaming data recording subsystems in COTS configurations ready-to-go. Our Fixed Feature recorders record Gigabit Ethernet (GbE), 10 GbE, and Serial FPDP (sFPDP) data in rackmount subsystems using SBOD or RAID storage.
| Product | Description |
|---|---|
| Vortex MCSR | Multi-Channel Synchronized Recorder System for sFPDP, Ethernet, and 10 GbE |
| Vortex SDR1X | 10 Gigabit Ethernet Recorder |
| Vortex SDRxE | Gigabit Ethernet Recorder |
| Vortex SDRxL | Serial FPDP Recorder – up to 4 channels |
Vortex Custom Recorders
Vortex Custom Rugged Data Recorders were developed for a wide range of customer applications. With over 10 years of data recording and storage expertise, Curtiss-Wright systems engineers enable you to reduce your program risk and improve your time to market. From the lab to your deployed system, whatever your specifications Curtiss-Wright’ can supply a solution for you.
| Product | Description |
|---|---|
| 10 GbE Playback System | Enables the user to reformat data and play it back over 8x 10 GbE channels |
| AES-256 Encryption/Decryption Recording System | Uses an AES-256 FIPS certified encryptor to record data prior to storage, decrypts and plays back the recorded data, and passes through data |
| Quad Serial FPDP Recorder with Playback System | Records and plays back up to 4x fibre-optic sFPDP data streams |
| Snapshot Recorder System | Stores up to 16 channels of sFPDP data for up to 54 seconds |
| 2GSPS Ultra Wideband Recorder with Playback System | Acquires data from a 2Gs/s digitizer and records the data to fibre channel storage |
Vortex Customer Programmable Recorders
In a world of ever increasing bandwidth and complexity, signal processing applications frequently require recording, playback and/or analysis of data in real-time. Curtiss-Wright Controls Defense Solutions has built a range of customer programmable, high-speed military recording products based on commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) components and open standards such as VPX (VITA 46), VPX-REDI (VITA 48), OpenVPX (VITA65), VXS (VITA 41), VME, PCI/PCI-X, PMC/XMC, Fibre Channel, Serial FPDP (sFPDP) and Front Panel Data Port (FPDP/FPDP II).
| Product | Description |
|---|---|
| Vortex VR-6511S8 | Multi-channel Data Recorder with Solid State Drives |
| Vortex VPX, VME, and VXS | High-speed Data Recording, Playback & Analysis Systems |
| Vortex SAN Recorder Kit (SRK) | Add data recording capabilities to your existing processor card |
| M6511 | VXS I/O Controller with XMC/PMC sites & 4Gbit/s Fibre Channel |
Vortex SAN Access Kit (SAK)
Off-loading data from a Fibre Channel storage device is necessary prior to processing and evaluation.
| Product | Description |
|---|---|
| Vortex SAN Access Kit | The Vortex SAK provides a dedicated Fibre Channel link directly between a workstation and the disk storage system. |
Video Recorders
Curtiss-Wright’s rugged video recorders are designed for surveillance cameras, radar, moving maps, and network distribution in all video formats, and can address the most demanding applications.
| Product | Description |
|---|---|
| Orion | JPEG2000 Real-Time Video Compression |
| VRD1-AC | Rackmount Turnkey COTS Subsystem for Video Conversion, Scaling, and Switching |
| VRD1-CC | Turnkey COTS Subsystem for Video Conversion, Scaling, and Switching |
| VRDV-3000 | DZUS Video Flash Recorder |
| VRDV-40xx | DZUS Video Flash Recorder |
| VRDV-5002 | High Definition DZUS CompactFLASH Recorder |
| VRDV-5004 | High Definition DZUS CompactFLASH Recorder |