PRODUCTS - COTS / PREMIUM COTS CHASSIS
NIS has four chassis families each with its own
set of features catered to a specific application
type; Commercial-off-the-Shelf (COTS) Chassis,
Premium COTS Chassis, Rugged COTS Chassis,
and μTCA Chassis. All chassis are equipped with
IEEE-1101.1 compliant backplanes such as VME,
VME64x, CompactPCI™, VITA-31/41/46, etc. In
addition to these platforms, select chassis are
also available with PCI backplanes, active
motherboards in ATX or Server form factors,
or completely custom / hybrid backplane
solutions designed by NIS.
COTS Chassis
NIS’s standard COTS Chassis are a low cost and easy to
maintain product. These chassis are available in various sizes
with CompactPCI™ backplanes, fixed fan trays or hot swap
plug in modules, and low cost ATX or 1+1 redundant plugin
power supplies (see individual product descriptions).
The Premium COTS Chassis line is designed for additional
functionality and customization.
Premium COTS Chassis
NIS’s Premium COTS Chassis build on the standard COTS
Chassis platform and have many features that make
them stand out against the competition. Customers
of the Premium COTS Chassis products require the low
cost of COTS Chassis but the feature-set of the more
robust and customizable RCOTS Chassis line.
The Premium models can accept any Eurocard Backplane as well as custom / hybrid designs; unlike the Standard COTS models which only accept cPCI backplanes.
Field replaceable fan trays utilize a separate intake
and exhaust fan tray with an MTTR of <2 minutes.
These field replaceable units (FRU) are affixed to the
main chassis using captive hardware.
A System Health Monitor (SM) can optionally
be installed to locally or remotely monitor and
control the chassis parameters to ensure optimal
operating conditions. The fans’ rotational speed
may also be manually controlled without the use
of the SM in select models.
Peripherals can be added to any Premium
COTS Chassis for added functionality. High reliability
commercial-off-the-shelf products
such as hard drives and optical drives can help
complete any system.
TMP Series Power Supplies (NIS proprietary design) are used on all Premium COTS Chassis
unless otherwise stated. These power supplies
offer military grade reliability at a COTS price.
Please contact NIS for additional information.
Customization is available on all Premium COTS
Chassis models. Please contact NIS with your unique
requirements! |