Call/Recall Inc., a pioneer in affordable, ultra-high-capacity optical disk storage, has announced availability of licensing for its patented 2-photon recorded 3D optical storage technology that can provide 40 times the capacity of Blu-ray and over 200 times the capacity of DVD optical storage technology.
Call/Recall's innovative optical storage technology is based on the work of company co-founder, Dr. Peter Rentzepis. A former head of Bell Laboratories, Rentzepis is a world-renowned scientist who authored approximately 85 patents. His innovations are referenced as prior art by 45 of the world's top optical technology providers, including IBM, Panasonic, and Hitachi.
Call Recall is recording a 1TB disk and has established a product roadmap delivering solutions capable of storing multiple terabytes of information per disk. The versatile 2-photon 3D technology can be applied to solutions such as a 100-plus terabyte optical library using a DVD-size disk for enterprise data storage, or a 1-inch diameter 50 GB disk for consumer electronics devices such as cell phones, portable media players, and game systems. Using the Call/Recall technology, manufacturers of consumer electronics devices, as well as large-scale enterprise and government customers, can store and manage more data in less space while reducing cost and improving overall I/O performance.
A Growing Need for High-Capacity, High-Performance Optical Disk Solutions
According to a 2003 report from UC Berkeley's School of Information Management and Systems, 5 exabytes of new informationùthe equivalent 37,000 new libraries the size of the Library of Congress, or about 30 feet of books for each of the 6.3 billion people on earthùwas created and stored in 2002. The global rate of data growth exceeds 30 percent annually, largely due to the increased use and sharing of digital content such as video, audio, gaming, electronic messaging, and the vast amounts of data created by both the public and private sector.
"Growing stockpiles of unstructured data are presenting end users with a new set of IT challenges, not just from a sheer capacity standpoint, but also in terms of data access, management, and cost," says Heidi Biggar, an analyst with the Enterprise Strategy Group. "Advances in optical technologies, such as Call/Recall's 2-photon 3D technology which promises to offer multiple terabyte data capacities and significantly faster data access than tape, hold new promise for users as they look to build more efficient and effective archives."
The Core Technology
Call/Recall's innovative optical storage technology utilizes a 2-photon recording process to record bits in a three-dimensional volume in a disk. Multiple layers of information can be stored within the 3D volume with less than a 10-micron layer of separation, effectively allowing the equivalent of 250 conventional DVD layers to be put onto one DVD with projected layer densities reaching High-Def formats allowing a roadmap to increase capacities by 5X.
Another key benefit of Call/Recall's optical systems technology is its use of affordable, commercially available, off-the-shelf components. This approach allows optical hardware manufacturers to extend the roadmap of their existing technologies, such as DVD and Blu-ray Disc, while maintaining backward compatibility with their installed base. Additionally, other key components are designed as molded/replicated parts, enabling very low-cost production on industry-standard production lines.
"Moore's Law states that processing power doubles every 18-24 months, and that law applies to the data storage industry as well as to the semiconductor industry," said Wayne Yamamoto, CEO, Call/Recall. "Government agencies, health care providers, entertainment companies, large corporations, and consumer products manufacturers must find a way to manage vast amounts of data economically, securely and seamlessly. By licensing Call/Recall's breakthrough 2-photon recorded 3D optical storage technology, companies can turn widely available storage media into high capacity optical disk solutions, at a reasonable cost."
About Call/Recall
Call/Recall Inc. is privately funded and was founded in 1987 providing advanced research into optical storage technologies and ultra-high storage solutions for military and commercial customers. Call/Recall develops affordable, innovative, high-performance, terabyte-class optical storage systems that address the needs of a broad range of applications across consumer, entertainment, industrial, enterprise, and government market segments. The company's patented, versatile 2-photon 3D optical technology is based on optical storage technology invented by company co-founder, Dr. Peter Rentzepis, a world-renowned optical scientist whose work is at the core of many of the world's most advanced optical technologies in use by global technology leaders including IBM, Sony, Panasonic and Hitachi. For more information, visit www.call-recall.com or call (858) 550-0596.
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