VMETRO to Demo SAN-Capable Data Recorders at International Telemetering Conference.

HOUSTON & OSLO, Norway -- VMETRO, the premier provider of products for high-speed sensor I/O, data recording and bus analysis, today announced that the company will showcase its newest SAN-capable data recorders, the Open-Marlin 22XA and Open-MDR 822, at the International Telemetering Conference being held this year at the Town and Country Resort and Convention Center, Oct. 18-21, 2004, in San Diego.

Open-Marlin is an all-in-one, PC-based, rack mountable data recorder which uses Windows XP and is available for benign environments. Open-MDR is a VME-based data recorder available for both benign and harsh environments. Both the Open-Marlin and Open-MDR are designed to be easily integrated into data acquisition systems and are ideal for applications requiring multiple high-bandwidth streams of data to be recorded and reproduced in real-time, such as those found in telemetry, surveillance and signal intelligence systems. In addition, both data recorders implement VMETRO's new "Open Programming Environment for Data Recording" toolkit and are thus particularly well-suited for recording data in special purpose formats such as that specified by IRIG 106 Chapter 10, a format rapidly becoming dominant in the telemetry industry. As with all VMETRO data recorders, flexible Fibre Channel SAN technology is utilized, allowing associated data recording environments to be easily expanded without performance degradation.

The demonstration at the International Telemetering Conference will utilize an Open-Marlin data recorder, an Open-MDR data recorder, four JBOD (Just a Bunch Of Disk) arrays and a Fibre Channel switch to show the following:

--Simultaneous data recording and reproduction at sustained rates greater than 360 MB/s per channel

--True SAN functionality and scaling

--Disk grouping and virtualization

--Remote management

--Interoperability with LabView

VMETRO will be co-located with BiTMICRO in booth 208 of the Grand Ballroom. Visitors are welcome to come and see the demo and, while they are there, sign up for our free drawing. VMETRO will be giving away ten USB Flash Memory Drives a month through November.

In other news, VMETRO announced the acquisition of Transtech DSP on Oct. 4, 2004. Copies of the press release and other information will be available at the booth.

About VMETRO

VMETRO provides board- and system-level products for high-performance embedded realtime systems, with products based on open standards like VMEbus, PCI, RACEway and Fibre Channel. Founded in 1986 in Oslo, Norway, and in the U.S. since 1987, VMETRO is the world's largest manufacturer of bus analyzers for standard buses such as VMEbus and PCI. VMETRO also offers an extensive line of high-performance real-time data recorders, PMC I/O controllers and modules for data acquisition and real-time data networking. VMETRO is listed as a Forbes International 200 Best Small Company and is traded on the Oslo Stock Exchange (OSE:VME). For more information, please visit www.vmetro.com.