LIGHTRAID

A computer hardware family of high capacity, hot-swap, RAID storage array products utilizing fiber optic interfaces, computer processor chips, printed circuit boards, and operating system software that, as a whole, provide for the recording and playback of optical signals carrying digital information in various formats, including, but not limited to, SDH/SONET interfaces ranging from STM1/OC3 to STM16/OC48 or STM-16 FEC, and data acquisition interfaces with analog/digital and digital/analog converters using VITA standard 17.1 compliant Serial FPDP optical transport, and user documentation.