Tape backup and data interchange solutions for the video / pre-press industry

If you prefer to browse our product list according to platform, please proceed to the Products By Platform Directory ; our main Product Directory is also an excellent starting point for identifying solutions to your back-up related problems.

The DS1000 is a direct replacement for the magnetic tape drive that typically provides data to a high-speed press. Print files can be sent to the press via the DS1000 directly from a local network or even via the internet.

Tape Libraries
Avax offers a complete range of 8mm, LTO , SLR and DLT tape libraries. Once you set up the tape library and install the tape-inventory software, the network administrator sets a backup schedule and simply changes the magazine once per week or month.

Avax Tape Subsystems
Avax's tape subsystems cover a wide range of capacities - 2 GByte to 960 GByte, a range of transfer rates - 256 KBytes/sec to more than 20 MBytes/sec, and a very wide range of platforms.

TA80 Tape Array
Dual drives providing data striping, mirror and off-line copy modes. Capacity to 200 GBytes. SUSTAINED data transfer rates to 80MB/sec

TE40 ultra-SCSI tape interface/emulator
Connect almost any 4mm, 8mm, DLT or LTO tape drive to practically any system. Complete emulation of standard manufacturer supplied drives for "plug and play" operation.

Data Interchange Solutions
From 1/2" 1600/6250 BPI reel-to-reel drives to 3480/3490/3490E compatible drives and stackers, or any of the newer format SCSI tape drives (4mm, 8mm, DLT), with data interchange software to handle mainframe and unix formats on practically any platform or operating system - Avax is the single source for all your data interchange requirements.

SCSI Switches
Used to share devices or to switch all the peripherals between a live and back-up system in a failback situation; making more use of existing peripherals by allowing them to be shared across multiple platforms.

Extenders
A hardware device which allows a SCSI bus to operate over a distance of up to 40 kilometres using fibre optic cables; a major step forwards for high availability distributed processing, delivering the advantage of both speed and distance for open SCSI working.

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