nPulse and Napatech make 10 GBPS capture & replay affordable
nPulse Network Systems today announces the availability of the nPulse HammerHead 10 Gbps Capture and Replay system based on the Napatech NT20E 2 x 10 Gbps In-line adapter. HammerHead is the first traffic testing product to provide full line-rate 10 Gbps packet capture, record-to-disk and replay capabilities at an affordable price. With growing deployment of 10 Gigabit networks, and the proliferation of sophisticated network devices designed to work at these high speeds, realistic traffic testing is more important than ever. At 10 Gbps, even small errors or configuration issues can have major performance, security and cost impacts. The ideal test scenario is to capture and record live network traffic, and then to replay it into the devices or networks under test, in a controlled environment and at line rates, to validate operation and performance. nPulse employed Napatech’s PCI-Express based NT20E network adapter to ensure accurate packet capture and replay performance in HammerHead.nPulse Networks‘ HammerHead provides state-of-the-art 10 Gbps test performance at a fraction of the cost of proprietary alternatives by carefully matching Napatech’s standards-based network adapter technology with powerful, off-the-shelf, multi-core server hardware and advanced software tools built in a familiar, widely-supported Linux environment. The Napatech NT20E 2 x 10 Gbps In-line adapter is designed for accelerating network monitoring system performance through a combination of line-rate 20 Gbps packet capture in real-time and a series of intelligent features designed to off-load the server CPU. These include nanosecond precision time-stamping, port merging, packet decoding, on-the-fly filtering, deduplication and flow identification with intelligent distribution of flows to up to 32 CPU cores. To see a demonstration of nPulse Hammerhead and Naptech N20TE visit Naptech at Interop NY on Booth 636 from 16th November until 20th November 2009. Quelle: Napatech |