SOLUTIONS FOR THE
Seismic Industry
Since the start of Avax, the company has offered
specialized tape solutions to suit the Seismic industry. Products are
mostly updated tape solutions used to enhance the use of older field
systems or products to enhance these products in some way.
Tape Copy
The first tape copy product we offered was a simple PC based system to
copy 9 track field seismic tapes using a single tape drive. Later
products were made specifically to copy tapes at high speed to allow
the copies to be produced as fast as data was recorded on board seismic
survey vessels. Systems presently available can copy between multiple
media types to allow data to be produced on the media required by the
various clients without any data format changes.
Well Logging
With the increase in the amounts of data produced in well logging the
traditional 1/2 open reel LIS tapes are being replaced by more cost
effective modern tape drives. Avax has produced new products for the
industry but has retained the traditional tape interface so allowing
integration without the need for either costly software changes or new
interfaces in the system.
Magnetic Tape Replacement
Avax now offers the availability of units that
"look" like a
tape drive to the host system but use Flash cards or disk drive as the
recording medium.
For more information, please click here.
Examples
of Avax's solutions are set out below.
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.
Products & Solutions
Tape Libraries
Avax offers a complete range of tape libraries in all
currentformats.
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 offers tape subsystems in all current and most of the older tape
formats. If you require a tape solution of any kind, please contact us and we will be
happy to assist you.
TE80 ultra-SCSI
tape interface/emulator
Connect almost any tape drive to practically
any system.
Complete emulation of standard manufacturer supplied drives for "plug
and play" operation.
Half
inch tape solutions
Avax still offers a complete range of half-inch tape solutions - both
reel-to-reel and 3480/3490/3490E types.
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 kilometers 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.
Protocol
Converters
Avax
offers a complete range of SCSI-SCSI converters enabling departments to
use existing equipment to do what they
want, where they want. Using single ended SCSI to
differential SCSI converters the bus length available is 35
metres and is less susceptible to noise so is better for use
in industrial or other specialist applications.
We
also offer iSCSI
to SCSI, SCSI to
iSCSI and bi-directional fiber
channel to SCSI bridges.
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