It's Tuesday, and the Spotlight is on Trenton Systems....

Trenton Systems was established in 1977, and has become a global leader in the design and manufacture of board level products and fully integrated computer systems that address the critical needs of industries such as defense, test and measurement and financial trading.

Trenton Systems board level manufacturing facilities are located in Utica, New York, and the system integration, sales and engineering teams are located at the Trenton headquarters in Gainesville, Georgia.

Trenton delivered some of the first single board computers with advanced dual-processor architectures. They are also one of the founding member companies of the PCI Industrial Computer Manufacturers Group® (PICMG®), and played a key leadership role with regard to writing and publishing industry standards such as PICMG 1.0 and PICMG 1.3.

The financial trading industry is an exciting, fast moving environment, which requires high performance products, expandability and long-life cycles – not to mention enclosure customisations that satisfy environmental variables!
Perfect then, that Trenton offer exactly that!

There are some significant advantages to choosing a Trenton Systems Single Board Computer, Backplane or Embedded Motherboard -

• Customer-driven computing solutions satisfy the most demanding requirements
• Board-level products designed, manufactured and supported in the United States
• Total BIOS control allows modifications that support complex integrated systems
• Backplane designs allow unique ISA, PCI, PCI Express 1.0 and 2.0 configurations
• Five-year factory warranty on all SBCs, backplanes & embedded motherboards
• Board-level products utilize long-life components for 7+ year product availability
• Manufacturing and computer integration facilities are ISO 9001:2008 Certified

For more information on the benefits of using a Trenton Systems product in your application, please call the sales team on +44 1672 511166, or email us! We look forward to hearing from you.

Conduant's 'Big River NTX16' in the Sarsen Spotlight

This week we're sharing all our trade secrets about the Big River NTX16 PCI Express Recorder from Conduant Corp!

Conduant Corp. designs and manufactures real-time, long-duration digital recording and playback disk systems. But unlike traditional general purpose disk storage, Conduant’s products ensure reliable, guaranteed and sustained performance in increments of 800 MB/s. Now thats something you don't see every day.....

The key to Conduant’s technology is the innovative way data is recorded; directly from a third party source, bypassing the bottlenecks that can occur in traditional recording systems.

The Big River™ NTX16 recording system provides up to 800 MB/s recording and playback performance in a 3U rack mount chassis. The system can operate independently from a host computer with command and control performed over a network connection. Control can be automated from a software application using the StreamStor® software API from a network connected computer.

A cabled PCI Express interface provides high speed connectivity to a host computer for command and control or data access, and can be used to connect to nearly any computing architecture, such as PCI Express, XMC, VME, VPX, VXS, AMC or other mezzanine / backplane environments.

Solutions are even available for connection to notebook computers!

Features include:

• Peer-to-peer PCI Express recording and playback capability
• Performance independent of host load
• Standalone capable operation with network command/control
• Sustained recording and playback at up to 800 MB/s
• Rear PCI Express cabling
• 3U chassis at only 21” deep
• Scalable data storage capacities up to 48TB
• Solid-state or magnetic disk drive media
• Cabled PCI Express (x8) for full speed data access

For even more information on the digital recording and playback systems from Conduant please get in touch with us here at Sarsen. There are 9 different ways... pick any one. But we'll have to whisper it.....!!