First Public Demonstration of a SOSA-Aligned 100GbE VPX Switch

As you may have seen recently on social media and myriad industry news sites there was some very exciting technology demonstrated at the Tri-Service Open Architecture Interoperability Demonstration (TSOA-ID) on January 29 at Georgia Tech Research Institute.

TSOA-ID was the first time the three branches of United States Armed Services (Army, Navy and Air Force) were brought together with standards organisations including HOST, SOSA, CMOSS and VITA working alongside leading industry partners like Annapolis Micro Systems and Leonardo DRS to demonstrate the ease of interoperability of rugged embedded hardware and software modules.

WILDSTAR 6E10 6U VPX Switch operating in Air Force chassis
TSOA-ID Dry Run in December 2019

TSOA-ID featured the very first public demonstration of a SOSA™-aligned 100Gb Ethernet-capable VPX switch and processing board. The next-generation WILDSTAR™ 100GbE 6E10 6U OpenVPX Switch and 6XB2 6U OpenVPX FPGA module from our partners at Annapolis featured in a live conformance and interoperability demo running within a US Air Force chassis.


Alongside the 100GbE demo, Annapolis also showcased the SOSA-aligned WILDSTAR 6XBU 6U OpenVPX FPGA Processing Board, which offers ultra-wide bandwidth digitisation and processing in a single 6U VPX board. It also delivers remarkable instantaneous bandwidth: 32 GHz receive and 24 GHz transmit.

Annapolis high-performance products can be used in a wide range of applications, including advanced HPC, ISR, and multi-function EW applications, such as phased array radar, cybersecurity network processing, DRFM, beamforming, sensor processing, wireless communication, and radar signal processing.

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X-ES Recognised by Brigadier General L. Neil Thurgood for Outstanding Support

Author - Laura Biddiscombe

We'd like to wish everyone at Extreme Engineering Solutions a huge congratulations on their recent visit from Brigadier General L. Neil Thurgood, in recognition of their support for the Army’s Missiles and Space program.

General Thurgood and his staff traveled to Middleton, Wisconsin to personally thank X-ES and present eight individual certificates of appreciation, recognsing the employees directly involved with the delivery and outstanding support of the rugged Intel® Core™ i7-based Single Board Computers (SBCs) used for his program.

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X-ES supports the Intel® Core™ i7 processor for a number of different form factors and rugged systems. These include:

• 3U VPX XPedite7570
• 6U VPX XCalibur4540
• 3U cPCI XPedite7530
• 6U cPCI XCalibur4500
• 6U VME XCalibur4530
• COM Express XPedite7450

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About Extreme Engineering Solutions, Inc. 
(X-ES)is a 100% U.S.A.-based company, designing and manufacturing Intel® and Freescale-based single board computers, networking products, power supplies, and system-level solutions for embedded computing customers. X-ES offers cutting-edge performance and flexibility in design, plus an unparalleled level of customer support and service.