Nashua, NH. Cepoint is now shipping it's 18TB (18 Terabyte) Remote accessible, security rich Enterprise Storage RAID systems for HDTV content storage, VoIP and Telephony. While there are many vendor supplied mid-range and low cost NAS Enterprise storage systems proliferating from every corner of the market, only very few products can boast of a truly security enhanced features for remote client access, and data replication. Considering that security is a critical fundamental factor in any data flow and management for an enterprise. Cepoint's Rx524 Sata RAID Storage systems for example has built-in encrypted remote data transfer features, manageable from authorized remote client via secure connection implementation that uses RSA SecureID, and IPSec features. The Rx524 NAS Storage system  is built  in a compact 5U, 24-bay rackmount enclosure with 6TB storage capacity and, powered by hardware XOR RAID 5 engine that provides true hardware based RAID and intelligent drive management functions.

     The system supports RAID levels 0, 1, 10, 5, 50, Single Disk (JBOD), and also equipped with  a Fibre-Channel or iSCSI port, in addition to Gigabit LAN ports. Rx524 delivers more punch and high performance at far less price than similar systems from "big name players" such as EMC, Network Appliance and IBM. Cepoint began shipping  high availability and highly scalable, Fault-Tolerant  R-Stor Enterprise RAID Storage systems in December 2003. For quite some time now, IT managers and systems administrators have worried about compatibility issues of any new system with their current infrastructures and, any future growth requirements. Although Rx524 is designed as NAS, it is ideal for Cluster and SAN environments. Cepoint Networks' R-STOR Plug-and-Play shared array storage characteristics and its Operating System independence, makes this Enterprise NAS RAID system totally transparent in most operating environments. Cepoint's R-STOR is one of the few Enterprise RAID storage system that easily supports multiple operating systems such as;  SuSE Enterprise Linux, MandrakeSoft, Red Hat Linux 6.2 or later, HP-UX 11.0 or later, IBM AIX 4.3.3 or later, Microsoft Windows 2000 / NT4.0/XP/Me, 95/98, Apple Mac OS 8.0 or later, UnixWare 7.1.1, SCO Open Server 5.0.5, SunSoft Solaris 7, making the system the most adaptable storage solutions for most enterprise computing, video streaming, telephony and VoIP applications in Windows, Linux, or Unix environments. 

Rx524 is configured using HDTV optimized drives, and in addition to 2 x Gigabit Ethernet connectivity, this makes Rx524 more suitable for integration with High video content applications required in HDTV and Real-Time live TV Broadcast facilities.

    R-Stor models also ships with option of SCSI, or iSCSI or dual 2GB/s Fibre-Channel Host interface with up to 400MB/s data rate, and support for FC-AL (Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop), point-to-point, switched fabric topology.

For IT managers interested in disk-to-disk storage or disk-to-tape storage back-up implementation is simple, since  SCSI-FCP (SCSI-Fibre Channel), IP, and FC-Tape protocols are supported.

Redundant, hot-swappable power supplies and fault-tolerant features suitable for clustering in enterprise computing environment are included. The system complements the company’s other high availability RAID storage, NAS, SAN, SCSI RAID servers, SATA and Fibre Channel RAID solutions for Real-Time data access, audio/video online streaming, data storage widely used in telephony and telecommunications enterprise applications. Model Rx524  version is  crafted with excellent cooling systems, dual hot-swappable (1200 watts ) redundant power supplies, and RAID levels 0, 1, 5, 10, 50 and JBOD. Its blazing performance and reliability makes it excellent for wide range of enterprise computing such as data warehousing and disk-to-disk--tape data back-up, and database management applications where 24 x 7 mission-critical operations is important. Multiple Rx524 can be daisy chained to 180TB. Pricing for 3.7TB FC-SATA version starts from under $7,000 and $10,500 for 9.6TB.Both versions are now shipping.

Cepoint Networks, LLC is a systems integration, and high performance computing manufacturer, specializing in high availability storage, applied computing products, and services for enterprise applications, telephony and telecommunications industry, Government, utilities and industrial markets. The Company's other products and services include; turnkey rack mount fault-tolerant cluster servers for mission-critical applications,.clusters servers, video-on-demand, telephony systems for voice processing, video/audio conferencing, real-time large scale surveillance, message logging and telecasting and, rugged portable lunch box workstations for field applications, network engineers and technicians. 1U, 2U, 3U and 4U Fail-Resilient Raid storage, SAN, NAS and servers for audio and video data archives or real-time video/data streaming and VoIP, custom hardware and software integration. Company's main website is http://www.cepoint.com  for more product info.

For more information contact: sales[@]cepoint.com  or Ph: (603)557-7464 Website: www.cepoint.net

Contact: sales[@]cepoint.com  Cepoint Networks, LLC www.cepoint.net Ph:(603)557-7464