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| New stream-to-disk performance record Solera Networks, a premier provider of deep network packet capture appliances, today announced sustained packet capture and stream to disk network traffic capture exceeding 400 MBytes/second or 3 Gbits/second, without packet loss on packets sizes ranging from 64 bytes to 1500 bytes with its DS Series Network Traffic Recorder. These performance levels demonstrate the ability to capture every packet on three fully saturated 1Gb networks with a combination of fiber and 1000BaseT topologies. Additional tests indicate sustained capture and store to disk of over 1, 000, 000 packets/second on a single capture card. Extensive testing indicates that a Solera DS appliance configured with 3 capture cards can sustain rates of over 2 million packets/second capture stream to disk. These performance characteristics far exceed any other network packet stream-to-disk supplier. The Solera DS Series of Linux 2.6-based appliances set a new standard for full visibility to network traffic and provide a full picture to what is happening or what happened on a network or networks. The necessity of deep packet capture is essential to network forensics, network management applications and analysts who are tasked to know what is happening and what has happened on the networks for which they have responsibility. The ability to further store these packets to disk at these phenomenal data rates give network forensics or network management personnel the luxury of "time shifting" their analysis. In other words, to go back in time to investigate management or security concerns. Furthermore, these tests indicate an ability to replay or reconstruct sessions (often referred to as flows) with the knowledge that ALL packets of a given session are available. Solera Networks provides a platform whereby a wide array of network forensics, security and management applications are available. Solera's unique approach to providing access to captured data in industry standard access methods allows for easy integration with existing applications that a customer may have; while giving them the option to select "best of breed" applications for solving problems and utilizing the network capture storage provided by these appliances. The Solera DS Appliance and Solera File System Architecture currently supports hundreds of vertical, open source, and industry standard network forensic and network management applications. Solera Networks DS series of appliances provide a variety of network packet storage options that scale from 800 GBytes of storage to 128 TBytes of storage. write your comments about the article :: © 2005 Networking News :: home page |