2010 - News

At the recent Interop Tokyo event, Napatech successfully demonstrated that a standard server with 8 CPU cores can be used to build a full throughput 10 Gbps Intrusion Prevention System (IPS).  Napatech has shown with this breakthrough that high-performance IPS products can be built using off-the-shelf components at lower cost, with less risk and faster time-to-market. More significantly, this demonstration shows that throughput performance can be scaled with the number of available CPU cores leading to even higher throughput possibilities.  

“With Napatech network adapters, we can take full advantage of available CPU cores, which allows the solution to scale”, according to Erik Norup, President, Napatech Inc. “We can support up to 32 CPU cores, so throughput performance can be increased even higher, if more CPU cores are available. This provides predictable scalability in performance.”

 

“Napatech has identified a need for network adapters focused on Traffic Generation and Capture & Replay applications. While many of the features provided by our existing In-line family can be used in these markets, the needs are slightly different demanding different feature focus and performance” said Erik Norup, President of Napatech Inc. “For example, in in-line applications, latency is extremely important, but not an issue in traffic generation. Similarly, in In-line there is a need to receive and transmit at the same time, while in capture & replay, it is typical that capturing data and replaying data are two separate activities that need not coincide.”

 

Napatech today announced the world’s first 2x10 Gbps Intelligent Real-time Network Analysis adapters based on PCI-Express Gen 2 with the introduction of the NT20E2 Capture adapter and NT20E2 In-line adapter products. The NT20E2 In-line is ideal for applications that require both capture and transmit in real-time, such as Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPS) and Policy Enforcement applications operating at 10 Gbps line-speed. This is complemented by the NT20E2 Capture adapter, which provides full 20 Gbps packet capture throughput over the PCI-Express Gen 2 bus.

“The NT20E2 network adapters provide the most complete feature set and highest performance of any network analysis adapter on the market today” said Erik Norup, President of Napatech Inc. “With PCI-Express Gen 2, we can provide 20 Gbps of traffic to the network appliance application software in real-time. At the same time, we provide the off-load and acceleration features that will help the application software to cope with so much data.”

 

“Napatech does not develop network appliances, but with this demonstration, we can show OEM network appliance manufacturers what can be achieved using the latest “Nehalem” class of industry standard servers combined with Intelligent Real time Analysis adapters” said Erik Norup, President of Napatech Inc. “We already have several IPS customers who have more than tripled their performance using this approach for both 1 Gbps and 10 Gbps IPS applications”.

 

“Mobile networks have traditionally been based on telecom protocols with significant management overhead built into the protocol itself. This is not the case with IP, which allows IP networks to be more flexible, but means that network management needs to be handled differently. For example, for performance monitoring, analysis and troubleshooting of IP networks, dedicated network appliances are required. These solutions already exist in enterprise networks where they have proven their value many times over. Now this technology can be applied to the challenges of mobile data networks”, said Erik Norup, President of Napatech Inc.

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