This performance is normally difficult to deliver using Microsoft Windows drivers, but has now been achieved by Napatech. This provides Napatech OEM customers greater flexibility in the application of Napatech’s 2-port 10 Gbps NT20E and 4-port 1 Gbps NT4E PCI Express adapters.

The main features & benefits of the new Windows driver are:

* Support for both XP and Windows Server 2003, both in 32- and 64-bit versions
* Support for filtering, time-stamping and capture of frames at line speed without packet loss
* Time-stamping with 10 nanosecond resolution and support for six time stamp formats
* Very low CPU utilization, below 1 percent
* Distribution of network frames to 1 – 32 host CPU cores based on 2/5-tuple hash keys
* Use of up to 64 advanced adapter hardware filters.

“Developing a high-speed Windows interface capable of handling line speed data rates is extremely demanding. With this achievement we believe that we have the world’s fastest Windows driver for Ethernet applications,” says Erik Norup, President Napatech Inc.

In addition to the features listed above, Napatech’s high-performance adapters include line rate capture and processing of frames up to 20 Gbps, 10 nanosecond time-stamping, channel merging, frame classification, conditional dynamic frame slicing, 64 user-programmable filters, packet coloring, deduplication, support for 32 CPU cores, and more. A programming interface and development tools are also provided.

About Napatech

Napatech is a leading OEM supplier of multi-port 10 GbE and multi-port 1 GbE high-performance network adapters. The core idea is to off-load real-time/streaming protocol, payload analysis and control applications traditionally implemented in software or proprietary hardware. Napatech expects a huge growth in the demand for intelligent real-time adapters as Ethernet speeds increase. Napatech has sales, marketing and R&D offices in Mountain View, California, Andover, Massachusetts, and Copenhagen, Denmark.

For more information visit us at: www.napatech.com.

In addition to PCI-Express and RMON1 support, the NT4E-STD provides a number of additional enhancements to the XD feature set:

* Support for 4 x 1 Gbps ports both electrical RJ45 and Optical SFP versions
* Support for additional DDR2 RAM for data burst buffering up to 4 GB
* Fixed Slicing functionality for payload discard
* Support for Multiple CPU cores via 1, 2, 3 or 4 host buffers with individual statistics.

The NT4E-STD uses the same API and programming interfaces as Napatech’s other adapter products.

“The new NT4E-STD PCI-Express adapters enable our OEM customers to provide very advanced solutions with a high port density at an attractive price point. The NT4E-STD family provides advanced time stamping features as well as new statistics features, which combined with its attractive price offers our OEM customers a cost-effective platform for the future,” says Nick Arraje, VP of Sales North America at Napatech. By implementing the full RMON1 standard (RFC2819) a very detailed view of network traffic can be presented with zero CPU load. RMON1 provides jumbo frame counters on a per-port basis, which offer a number of useful “good/bad” statistics for each of the four host buffers supported.

These statistics are presented as “snapshots,” which are transferred to the host through a separate DMA process followed by a time stamp. The new advanced statistics allow appliances/applications to present a very detailed view of network traffic at practically zero CPU load.

Napatech’s high-performance adapters include line rate capture and processing of frames up to 20 Gbps, 10 ns time-stamping of every packet, channel merging, frame classification, conditional dynamic slicing, 64 user-programmable filters, packet coloring, deduplication, support for 32 CPU cores, and more. The feature set supports Linux, FreeBSD and Windows, and includes a programming interface and development tools.

About Napatech

Napatech is a leading OEM supplier of multi-port 1GbE and multi-port 10GbE high-performance network adapters. The core idea is to off-load real-time/streaming protocol, payload analysis and control applications traditionally implemented in software or proprietary hardware. Napatech expects a huge growth in the demand for high performance adapters as Ethernet speeds increase. Napatech has sales, marketing and R&D offices in Mountain View, California, Andover, Massachusetts, and Copenhagen, Denmark.

For more information visit us at: www.napatech.com.

The Napatech adapters support the FCoE standard by being able to filter, time-stamp and capture FCoE frames at line speed without packet loss. The main features and benefits of combining a Napatech Programmable Ethernet Adapter with FCoE support are:

* Very accurate time stamp resolution of 10 nanoseconds, in six different formats
* Very low CPU utilization, below 1 percent
* Utilization of many of the advanced Napatech Network Adapter features
* Distribution of network frames to 1-32 host CPU cores
* Use of up to 64 advanced adapter hardware filters

“The new support for FCoE allows our OEM customers with network monitoring solutions to enter large datacenters or server farms that have implemented combined IP and Fiber Channel traffic. By having the same comprehensive API with the many filtering capabilities as our current Programmable Ethernet Adapters, this greatly expands the reach of these solutions,” says Nick Arraje, VP of Sales, North America.

The main driver for combining the two types of traffic onto one Ethernet is cost. Standard switches and routers can be used in the Datacenter infrastructure; and with the new Napatech support for FCoE, the need for two monitoring devices or two Data Capture devices is eliminated.

The new features described above are added to the already feature-rich product line offered to Napatech’s OEM customers. The high-performance adapters already include line rate capture and processing of frames up to 20 Gbps, 10 ns time-stamping, channel merging, frame classification, conditional dynamic frame slicing, 64 user-programmable filters, packet coloring, deduplication, support for 32 CPU cores, and more. The feature set supports Linux, FreeBSD and Windows, and includes a programming interface and development tools.

About Napatech

Napatech is a leading OEM supplier of multi-port 1GbE and multi-port 10GbE high-performance network adapters. The core idea is to off-load real-time/streaming protocol, payload analysis and control applications traditionally implemented in software or proprietary hardware. Napatech expects a huge growth in the demand for high-performance adapters as Ethernet speeds increase. Napatech has sales, marketing and R&D offices in Mountain View, California, Andover, Massachusetts, and Copenhagen, Denmark.

“The new configurable LibPCAP library greatly simplifies the task for new Napatech OEM customers to port their applications to the high-performance Napatech Programmable Network Adapter platform. Current OEM customers have experienced more than fourfold performance improvements with less than one day’s work,” says Nick Arraje, VP of Sales, North America.

The new Napatech highly configurable LibPCAP library enables customer applications, implemented using the standard PCAP programming interface, to take advantage of the advanced features of the Napatech Programmable Network Adapters. This enables our OEM customers to achieve a 300-600 percent performance increase at practically zero development effort. The hardware functionality of Napatech Network Adapters, such as adapter generation of 5-tuple hash keys, used for distribution of selected network frames to a number of server CPUs, can be configured via a text-based file that is read by the Napatech driver when the adapter is started.

The new features described above are added to the already feature-rich product line offered to Napatech’s OEM customers. The high-performance adapters already include line rate capture and processing of frames up to 20 Gbps, 10 ns time-stamping, channel merging, frame classification, conditional dynamic frame slicing, 64 user-programmable filters, packet coloring, deduplication, support for 32 CPU cores, and more. The feature set supports Linux, FreeBSD and Windows, and includes a programming interface and development tools.

About Napatech

Napatech is a leading OEM supplier of multi-port 1GbE and multi-port 10GbE high-performance network adapters. The core idea is to off-load real-time/streaming protocol, payload analysis and control applications traditionally implemented in software or proprietary hardware. Napatech expects a huge growth in the demand for intelligent and programmable adapters as Ethernet speeds increase, since the current PC architecture limits the amount of processing that can be achieved. Napatech has sales, marketing and R&D offices in Mountain View, California, Andover, Massachusetts, and Copenhagen, Denmark.

The Napatech X family of 4-port 1 Gbps adapters has for years had an advanced “Local Retransmit function” allowing incoming data to be filtered on the adapter and returned to the network without involving the host CPU. This functionality is now further enhanced and moved to the NT20E two-port 10 Gbps adapter.

Local Retransmit enables a number of advanced in-line applications like traffic sorting using the advanced 64 filters available, or combining appliances in a daisy chain where local retransmit relays certain traffic downstream to other appliances for further processing. The Local Retransmit feature set can be combined with Packet Classification, Hash Key Generation (2/5-tuple), Filtering, Coloring and Multi-CPU Splitting.

The new Time Sync feature allows the daisy chain time sync available on all Napatech NT adapters both 1 Gbps & 10 Gbps to sync directly, without the need for special boxes, with any one pulse per second timing source from i.e. IRIG-B or CDMA.

Napatech’s on board statistics have been enhanced in functionality and includes an extensive number of counters which are available independently whether traffic is forwarded to the host or not. This enables customer applications to retrieve a comprehensive network traffic analysis at virtually zero CPU load. There are two types of counters: Large set RMON1, including Jumbo frames, for both captured and discarded frames on a per-port basis; and a Normal set including frame & byte counters for good and bad frames per filter (64 counter sets) and per host buffer (32 counter sets).

The new features described above are added to Napatech’s OEM customers at no additional cost. The high-performance adapters already include line rate processing of packets up to 20 Gbps, 10 ns time-stamping of every packet, channel merging, frame classification, conditional dynamic slicing, 64 user programmable filters, packet coloring, deduplication support for 32 CPU cores, and more. The feature set supports Linux, FreeBSD and Windows, and includes a programming interface and development tools.

About Napatech

Napatech is a leading OEM supplier of multi-port 1GbE and multi-port 10GbE high-performance network adapters. Napatech expects a huge growth in the demand for intelligent and programmable adapters as Ethernet speeds increase. Napatech has sales, marketing and R&D offices in Mountain View, California, Andover, Massachusetts, and Copenhagen, Denmark.

“The new 4- and 8-port combinations available with this new family of PCI-Express adapters enable our OEM customers to provide very advanced solutions with a high port density at an attractive price point. The NT4 family carries all features previously announced in the ANAHEIM and TUCSON release plus the above new feature set, a true new platform for the future,” says Nick Arraje, VP of Sales North America at Napatech.

The DMA-based statistics further enhance the comprehensive Napatech set of statistics already available. The full RMON standard extended with jumbo frame counters on a per-port basis are now available for both captured and discarded frames. The NEWARK release further brings a number of useful “good/bad” statistics per filter (64) and per host buffer (32). These statistics are presented as “snapshots,” which are transferred to the host through a separate DMA process followed by a time stamp. The new advanced statistics allow appliances/applications to present a very detailed view of the network traffic at practically zero CPU load.

The new features described above are added to the already feature-rich product line offered to Napatech’s OEM customers. The high-performance adapters already include line rate capture and processing of frames up to 20 Gbps, 10 ns time-stamping of every packet, channel merging, frame classification, conditional dynamic slicing, 64 user-programmable filters, packet coloring, deduplication, support for 32 CPU cores, and more. The feature set supports Linux, FreeBSD and Windows, and includes a programming interface and development tools.

About Napatech

Napatech is a leading OEM supplier of multi-port 1GbE and multi-port 10GbE high-performance network adapters. The core idea is to off-load real-time/streaming protocol, payload analysis and control applications traditionally implemented in software or proprietary hardware. Napatech expects a huge growth in the demand for intelligent and programmable adapters as Ethernet speeds increase, since the current PC architecture limits the amount of processing that can be achieved. Napatech has sales, marketing and R&D offices in Mountain View, California, Andover, Massachusetts, and Copenhagen, Denmark.

* Pattern Search at full 20 Gigabit per second line speed
* Pattern Search across fragmented packets
* Sustained capacity up to 1 million flows
* Handles one hundred thousand new flows per second
* 20 Gbps speed up to 2 million characters for all patterns
* Flexible configuration of pattern length and number of patterns

“The new Pattern Matching Adapter is an enhancement of the earlier Tilera TILE 64 Processor based adapter launched in the spring of 2008. By adding two 10 Gbps ports to the advanced 64 Multicore Tilera TILE64 Processor, Napatech achieves both world-class 20 Gbps speed for advanced Pattern Searches, and a unique flexibility for processing and adapting to different search criteria. This new product can furthermore be used as a stand-alone Pattern Matching Accelerator Adapter as well as in combinations with the Napatech Programmable Network Adapters to utilize the advanced high-performance frame classification and filtering of these adapters,” says Erik Norup, President, Napatech Inc.

The Pattern Matching Adapter will have many uses within Appliances for Intrusion Detection, Forensic Analysis, Lawful Intercept, IP Address Surveillance, Security and Cyberspace Surveillance.

The new Pattern Matching Adapter is added to the already feature-rich product line offered to Napatech’s OEM customers. The high-performance adapters already include features such as line rate capture and processing of frames up to 20 Gbps, 10 ns time-stamping of every packet, channel merging, frame classification, conditional dynamic frame slicing, 64 user-programmable filters, packet coloring, deduplication, support for 32 CPU cores, and more. The feature set supports Linux, FreeBSD and Windows, and includes a programming interface and development tools.

The feature set for the Pattern Matching Adapter supports Linux drivers, a programming interface and development tools.

About Napatech

Napatech is a leading OEM supplier of multi-port 1GbE and multi-port 10GbE high-performance network adapters. The core idea is to off-load real-time/streaming protocol, payload analysis and control applications traditionally implemented in software or proprietary hardware. Napatech expects a huge growth in the demand for intelligent and programmable adapters as Ethernet speeds increase, since the current PC architecture limits the amount of processing that can be achieved. Napatech has sales, marketing and R&D offices in Mountain View, California, Andover, Massachusetts, and Copenhagen, Denmark.

Due to the increased deployment of their adapters in mission-critical operations requiring advanced Fail-safe solutions beyond what external optical bypass switches can accommodate, Napatech has launched their NEW 4-port Optical Bypass Adapter enhancing the usual power failure bypass with a watchdog function which can be activated from the server if an application stops servicing the adapter driver, or if the server is taken down for maintenance in a controlled way.

Available in two versions supporting both Long Range single-mode on 9-micrometer optical fibers and Short Range multimode on 50-micrometer optical fibers, the Adapter can be configured to enter into either bypass or pass-through mode at power failure or heartbeat failure.

The Optical Bypass Adapter is added to an already feature-rich product line offered by Napatech. Their high-performance adapters include features such as line rate capture and processing of frames up to 20 Gbps, 10 ns time-stamping of every packet, channel merging, frame classification, conditional dynamic frame slicing, 64 user-programmable filters, packet coloring, deduplication, support for 32 CPU cores, and more, supporting Linux, FreeBSD and Windows, and including a programming interface with development tools.

About Napatech

Napatech is a leading OEM supplier of multi-port 1GbE and multi-port 10GbE high-performance network adapters with sales, marketing and R&D offices in Mountain View, California, Andover, Massachusetts and Copenhagen, Denmark. The core idea is to off-load real-time/streaming protocol, payload analysis and control applications traditionally implemented in software or proprietary hardware.

The new Deduplication feature can remove duplicate frames (frames containing identical payload) from the traffic captured by the Napatech adapter. This saves a substantial amount of server CPU cycles and, for applications storing the network data to disk, also large amounts of disk space.

The new Filter Priorities extend the possibilities of the 64 programmable hardware filters by enabling full control filters working on overlapping definitions. As an example, three filters can be set up to capture all UDP packets, all TCP packets and all other IP packets by giving the IP filter a lower priority than the UDP and TCP filters.

Furthermore, if Packet Coloring is added, each of the three packet types will be tagged with a unique Color ID enabling fast software processing/identification of the individual classes of packets.

Finally as Napatech is seeing more OEMs using several adapters in one server or in servers next to each other, several Napatech adapters can now be daisy-chained and time-synchronized without using external boxes. In this way, an inter-adapter time-stamping precision better than 30 ns can be obtained.

“These new features again add to the Napatech goal of providing world-class off-loading and acceleration features to our OEMs enabling their solutions to provide more advanced analysis and allowing them to scale faster to i.e. 20 Gbps speed or to store more data in an easily retrievable way,” says Nick Arraje, VP Sales of North America.

The new features described are added to the already feature-rich product line offered to Napatech’s OEM customers. The high performance adapters include features such as line rate capture and processing of frames up to 20 Gbps, 10 ns time-stamping of every packet, channel merging, frame classification, conditional dynamic frame slicing, support for 32 CPU cores, and more. The feature set supports Linux, FreeBSD and Windows, and includes a programming interface and development tools.

About Napatech

Napatech is a leading OEM supplier of multi-port 1GbE and multi-port 10GbE high-performance network adapters. The core idea is to off-load real-time/streaming protocol, payload analysis and control applications traditionally implemented in software or proprietary hardware. Napatech expects a huge growth in the demand for intelligent and programmable adapters as Ethernet speeds increase, since the current PC architecture limits the amount of processing that can be achieved. Napatech has sales, marketing and R&D offices in Mountain View, California, Andover, Massachusetts and Copenhagen, Denmark.

PCIe High Performance Network Adapter Cards

Order # Product Name Description
810-0017 NT20E PCI-E, 2x10Gb XFP
801-0074 NT4E – 4 PCI-E, 4x1Gb SFP
801-0075 NT4E – 4T PCI-E, 4x1Gb RJ45
801-0076 NT4E – 2+2T PCI-E, 2x1Gb SFP and 2x1Gb RJ45

PCIx High Performance Network Adapter Cards

Order # Product Name Description
810-0018 NT20 PCI-X, 2x10Gb, XFP
35540 XA1 – 4 PCI-X, 18mb Cam, 4x1Gb SFP
60250 XD1 – 2/2T PCI-X, 2x1Gb SFP or 2x1Gb RJ45
60260 XL2 – 2+2T PCI-X, 2x1Gb SFP, 2x1Gb RJ45
60270 XL2 – 4 PCI-X, 4x1Gb SFP
60390 XL2 – 4T PCI-X, 4x1Gb RJ45

“Napatech’s adapter acceleration is not just one feature, but a number of different acceleration technologies that can be used in different combinations for different user scenarios. This allows our OEM customers to address applications like Flow Inspection, Lawful Intercept, Deep Packet Inspection, Protocol Classification and more. Adapter features like Packet Classification off-loads the host CPU from analyzing network frames. Dynamic Frame Offsets and 64 User-Programmable Filters with the ability to be changed on the fly enable filtering of network frames at line speed so that user applications only need to handle relevant frames. Fixed and Dynamic Slicing enables slicing of captured frames that reduces the amount of data that must be transferred to the host memory and that the user application needs to handle. 2 or 5 Tuple Hash Key Generation can be used to recognize various IP/UDP/TCP flows (e.g. NetFlow, Snort or Data Retention),” says Nick Arraje, VP of Sales at Napatech.

He adds, “PCAP, Standard and Extended Descriptor Generation enables the user to generate a broad range of descriptors that can be pre-pended to the captured frames and can integrate smoothly with LibPCAP-based applications. Multi CPU Buffer Splitting supports splitting of data in from 2 to 32 buffers, which simplifies the distribution of the processing of captured data on multiple CPU cores, improving cache hit rates, and memory bandwidth.”

“These along with other features, like high-precision time stamping (10nS) with support for 6 different formats including standard Windows, UNIX and other options (e.g. via GPS), and large on-board memory buffering (up to 2GB), are all designed to accelerate the user application and bring products to market quicker by utilizing an off-the-shelf server solution.”

“As part of the new release, Napatech has developed a Napatech Programming Language (NTPL) to simplify the setup of advanced adapter features. NTPL is a text-based interface that enables customers to develop HW independent and very portable applications by focusing on the business logic. NTPL enables Napatech to evolve and upgrade the underlying technology without the need for its OEM customers to modify their applications. NTPL is parsed by an interpreter in the driver that will automatically optimize the use of the adapter resources (e.g. Filter resources). In addition, a command line tool taking NTPL commands or command files is available which enables rapid prototyping. The NTPL interface and NTPL command line tool are supported by all Napatech adapters,” Arraje concludes.

The feature set supports Linux, FreeBSD, and Windows drivers, a programming interface and development tools.

About Napatech

Napatech is a leading OEM supplier of multi port 1Gb and multi port 10Gb high performance network adapter cards. The core idea is to off-load real-time/streaming protocols, payload analysis and control applications traditionally implemented in software or proprietary hardware. Napatech expects a huge growth in the demand for intelligent and programmable adapters as Ethernet speeds increase. Current PC architecture limits the amount of bandwidth that can be handled by the PCI bus and CPU/memory. Napatech has sales, marketing and R&D offices in Mountain View, California, Andover, Massachusetts and Copenhagen, Denmark.

For more information visit us at: http://www.napatech.com.