| 1987 |
First
helicopter borne 4 Mbit/s dipping sonar VHS recorder. Fleet-wide (Royal
Navy) of a passive sonar system with performance extended to 1, 2 or 3
Mbit/s for 6, 3 or 1.5 hours. MTBF in excess of 12,500 hours. |
| 1988 |
First
2.048 Mbit/s VHS recorder for HDB3 communications applications. 3 hour
duration. Error rate better than 1 x 10E-10. |
| 1989 |
First
2.5 MHz analog VHS recorder with integral time base corrector. Time base
stability +/-10 ns. Duration 3 hours. |
| 1992 |
8 Mbit/s
digital range extended to support 4-channel plesio-synchronous and 8-channel
asynchronous operation. |
| 1994 |
Introduction
of compact MIL-STD specification airborne variants of 8 MHz analog and
8 Mbit/s digital systems. |
| 1996 |
Introduction
of world's first 'half-width' 12 MHz analog S-VHS recorder/reproducer (later to
evolve into the AE3000FL Series
of 8 and 12 MHz Wideband Analogue S-VHS Cassette Recorders). |
| 1998 |
Introduction of world's first general
purpose 50 MHz / 1 Gbit/s captive media recorders. |
| 1999 |
Introduction of world's first general purpose 50 MHz
/ 1 Gbit/s 1 Terabit storage disk-based recorder with hot-swappable disk crate (AE7000). |
| 2000 |
AE3000FL
S-VHS Cassette Recorder range
extended to 18 MHz analog bandwidth (AE3200FL). |
| 2001 |
Introduction of AE7000
Telemetry Disk Recorder (now withdrawn) as a direct replacement for legacy linear and rotary multi-channel telemetry recorders. |
| 2001 |
AE7000 Disk Recorder family extended
to include direct computer connectivity plus a range of complete SIGINT data
capture, analysis and storage solutions (AE7800
SIGINT Data Capture System). |
| 2002 |
Introduction of 'second
generation' model AE8200 Disk
Recorder offered as a convenient replacement for legacy 6 and 8 MHz S-VHS
recorders as well supporting an enhanced platform recording capability to 12
or 25 MHz. Single and dual-channel OC-3 telecommunications recording
also supported. |
| 2004 |
Extension of AE8200
product range to include built-in DSP-based IF/BB conversion, Ethernet control
and network connectivity. Bandwidth extended to 50 MHz (AE8250) |
| 2005 |
Introduction of AE8800
Scaleable SIGINT Disk Recorder (SSDR). IF recording up to 160 MHz
(BW up to 80 MHz) and baseband (video) recording to 100 MHz. |
| 2006 |
AE8800 superseded by the
Model AE8400 also offered IF recording up to 160 MHz
(BW up to 80 MHz) and baseband (video) recording to 100 MHz, but in a more
compact package. |
| 2006 |
2-channel version of
AE8250 introduced. Designed to record two parallel channels of baseband
(video) or IF data at up to 25 MHz BW (per channel). |
| 2006 |
4-channel version of
AE8400 introduced. Designed to record 1 ch. x 80 MHz, 1 or 2 ch. x 40
MHz and 1, 2 or 4 ch. x 20 MHz from up to four receiver IFs. |
