ComScan® Chassis

Completely designed to be in alignment with the U.S. Army C5ISR/EW Modular Open Suite of Standards (CMOSS) and The Open Group Sensor Open Systems Architecture™, SOSA™, Technical Standard, Spectranetix chassis is ruggedized to meet the demands of the battlefield. It can integrate with any U.S. Army CMOSS and SOSA aligned plug-in circuit cards such as payload cards, timing cards, switch cards and power supply cards, in a plug-and-play manner. The Spectranetix chassis products target advanced processing, high data rate applications, support requirements for high computational power and signal phase coherency, and are a foundation for the Spectranetix ComScan® open architecture multi-function processing platforms. The chassis are ruggedized to meet U.S. Department of Defense military standards MIL-STD-810G and MIL-STD-461C, making them an ideal fit for next generation Cyber / EW / SIGINT / Comms applications for use on Air, Land and Sea platforms.

  • SX-920, 11-Slot Top Loading Chassis

    SX-920, 11-Slot Top Loading Chassis

  • SX-922, 7-Slot Front Loading Chassis

  • SX-922, 11/13-Slot Front Loading Chassis

Configurations

The standard chassis incorporates a backplane with 100 Gbps capable fat pipes on the Data Plane and accommodate up to eight mission specific payload plug-in cards, up to two active Ethernet switch cards, an active timing card, and up to two active power supply cards depending on the selected backplane topology configuration, i.e., 7 slots, 11 slots, and 13 slots, each with custom configurable options.

Circuit cards can be loaded through either a front opening in a front loading configuration (Model No. SX-922) or a top opening in a top loading configurations (Model No. SX-920) of the 11-slot and 13-slot chassis. The standard 7-slot chassis is available with a front opening door only. Top loading chassis is designed for mounting onto a platform shelf, while front loading chassis is ready for rack mount.

Capabilities

The chassis front panel provides health indicators and supports user and external interface with MIL-STD connector types in a layout that can be custom configured. In addition to providing access to RF signal inputs and outputs, Modular Open Radio Frequency Architecture (MORA) and Vehicular Integration for C5ISR/EW Interoperability (VICTORY) Data Bus interfaces, the front panel connectors also provide cryptographic ignition key loads, as well as zeroize switch in the standard configurations. The backplane fat pipes (FP) support up to 100 Gb/s for high data throughput and response time, and ultra-thin pipes (UTP) support up to 25 Gb/s.

The chassis are designed to support two physically separated enclaves to facilitate security certification and are compliant to the ANSI VITA 48.2 mechanical standard for VPX REDI conduction cooling of plug-in cards to air cooled chassis and ECC3 environmental class per VITA 47 standard.