To complement the rugged members of the TS 480 family, AMPEX offers the TS 481 Ground System. Intended for use in data center environments, the TS 481 system marries an industry-standard server with a receiver port for the Removable Storage Arrays used throughout the family.

As a fully-fledged server, the system can do duty both as a processing station in its own right and/or a bridge between the acquisition units and ground-based data processing and archive infrastructures. Since the TS 481 platform uses industry-standard components, variations offering features such as a range of removable storage and local storage arrays are available.