Ampex Announces First Sale of DSRs48O Solid-State Airborne Server System

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Oct. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Ampex Data Systems Corporation
announced their selection to provide the DSRs48O solid-state airborne server
system to General Atomics, Reconnaissance Systems Group, San Diego, CA,
representing the first sale of this new product. "Higher performance, smaller
size, and lighter weight, and all at a lower cost," is the way that Business
Development Manager John Hardy described Ampex' s new airborne solid-state
server system. "The DSRs48O system is specifically designed to meet our
customers' ever-growing data acquisition needs."

The DSRs48O system provides a ruggedized computer/server/recorder packaged in
a fully certified MIL-STD-810F package to the TSR community. The system
provides three times the performance in a package that is one-quarter the
physical size of other airborne servers. Utilizing the latest in hot-swappable
solid state disk array technology, the DSRs48O provides up to 2TB of scalable
RAID storage and high-performance processing. Designed and developed
specifically for users engaged with high data rate, multi-sensor data
acquisition and playback operations, the DSRs48O system provides unlimited
RAID configurations and processing flexibility. Not limited to airborne
applications, the DSRs48O system has also been proposed for use in ground and
maritime military applications as well as harsh-environment commercial
collection operations.

"The DSRs48O server adds a network centric system to our family of
high-performance data acquisition systems," said Lawrence Chiarella, President
of Ampex Data Systems Corporation. "The system provides a complete data
storage, processing and distribution solution for the TSR community utilizing
the latest COTS technology with militarized packaging. We are pleased to
report on our selection by General Atomics and that we will be shipping the
first of these new systems later this year."

The DSRs48O will be marketed and sold as part of Ampex's TuffServ product line
of ruggedized high-performance server systems.

Ampex Data Systems Corporation, headquartered in Redwood City, California, is
a world leader in design and development of advanced data storage
technologies. To learn more about Ampex, please visit our website at
http://www.ampex.com.

Contact:

John Hardy
Business Development Manager
Ampex Data Systems Corporation
619-701-0476

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