Phoenix International Reveals Phalanx II Rugged NAS for Unmanned Vehicles

Phoenix International Systems, Inc., in storage technology providing rugged and reliable COTS storage solutions, introduced the Phalanx II rugged NAS storage system.

The new product is being introduced at AUVSI XPONENTIAL 2017.

The cigar box sized (82mm x 215mm x 226.5mm) Phalanx II is SWaP optimized and provides performance, capacity and secure storage for Unmanned Aerial and Underwater Vehicles (UAVs, UUVs) and airborne ISR applications.

This small form factor NAS weighs six lbs, provides up to 16TB of storage capacity with two SSDs and supports RAID-0 (mirroring) and RAID-1 (stripping). Hot-swap removable drives are optionally available. System configuration and management is provided via a web based GUI or CLI.

Data security is a key component to any mass storage application and the Phalanx II addresses this with optional support for AES-256 encryption and hardware and/or software triggered Data Elimination.

The Phalanx II allows networked devices to share and store data using all common network services: NFS (V3/V4), SBM/CIFS, FTP, TFTP, RSYNC and SSH. It supports a variety of network based file systems that allow multiple hosts to share and store information. Network connections are provided through five load balanced GbE ports, and it can support dual optical 10GbE ports for low EMI susceptibility.

Major Features of the Phalanx II NAS:

MLC or SLC SSD devices
Intel Broadwell (Xeon v4) CPU
Video: 1x VGA, 2x or 3x DVI video output
I/O: 5x GbE, 2x 10GbE, USB 2/3, Serial (RS232/422)
Monitoring via SMART, SNMP, EMAIL (Health/Performance)
Operational temperature from -40° to +71°C
38999 Connectors Standard
12-36VDC @ 25-7W (option variable)
Optional AES 256 encryption
MIL-STD-810G, MIL-STD-461F, MIL-STD-704F/1275D

Phoenix International has been designing and building rugged storage systems for any application – from multi-terabyte FC RAID, NAS and SAN configurations to conduction cooled plug-in VPX and VME SSD storage modules – since 1993.
Based in Orange, CA, the firm is an AS9100 Rev C/ISO 9001:2008 Certified Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business (SDVOSB).