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Industrial and Embedded Systems

Industrial and embedded system applications typically use the DAS architecture and require a small form factor, ruggedness, significant reliability and performance standards, and the ability to withstand hostile environments in off-premises deployments.

Exposure to highly combustible materials and electromagnetic radiation are typical scenarios electronic equipment (such as oil pipeline monitors and robotics) are likely to encounter in manufacturing, assembly plants and oil fields. Unlike its mechanical counterpart, SSDs do not have moving parts and are usually prescribed for these applications.

F-SSDs are ideal for use in voice/data switching equipment and other CO facilities. Data network equipment such as enterprise-class routers and switches generally require storage devices that can handle a fairly large number of transactions per second in remote and sometimes hostile environments. Routers used in Wide Area Networking (WAN) applications have historically used small form factor Flash Disks as the boot device and for back up of routing tables. There is a compelling desire for even more reliable, denser and higher performing Solid State Flash Disks to achieve High Availability Level (HAL) targets and further reduce fail over time (time to recover from failure) in some of the more advanced optical switches used in Metropolitan Area Networks (MAN). High data access rates are critical to achieving minimized fail over time for large software operating systems used in telecommunication equipment. Typically the installations require a HAL of 5 with less than 5 minutes of downtime per year (99.999% reliable) and less than 30 seconds fail over time.

In addition to having higher performance, the desired small form factor, reliability, and ruggedness, our E-Disk^® offers additional security and data protection features required by these applications that are not offered by any other supplier.