Napatech NT4E-4

Features

The Napatech NT4E-4 product has the following features:

Napatech NT4E-4
  • 4 x 1 Gbps SFP and/or RJ45 connections
  • Expandable to 8 ports using the NTPORT4E adapter
  • Full-duplex monitoring of IPv4 and IPv6
  • Full-line-rate capture and processing for all frame sizes
  • Efficient capture: < 1% host CPU load
  • High-precision 10 ns time-stamping
  • Advanced hardware time synchronization
  • 6 sec. of on-board data burst buffering
  • 4 or 8 Gbps frame processing including protocol decoding, programmable filters, conditional slicing, hash keys, buffering, advanced statistics, deduplication and multi-CPU support
  • On-the-fly fully reconfigurable setup
  • Easy-to-integrate API
  • LibPCAP and WinPCAP support
  • Linux, FreeBSD and Windows support

Technical Specifications

General Features
Full-line-rate processing for all frames from 64 bytes to 10.000 bytes
IEEE standard IEEE 802.3 10 Mbit/s, 100 Mbit/s, 1 Gbit/s Ethernet
Physical interfaces 4 SFP ports
Supported SFP modules Multimode SR (850 nm), single-mode LR (1310 nm), 1000BASE-T or 10/100/1000BASE-T
Data rate 4 x 1 Gbit/s or 8 x 1 Gbit/s
PCIe performance 12.5 Gbit/s
CPU utilization
  • < 1% of the CPU is used for any data transfer
  • 0% of the CPU is used for any on-board processing
Time formats PCAP-ns/-µs, native, NDIS 10 ns/100 ns, UNIX 10 ns
Software
Linux kernel 2.6: 32-bit/64-bit
FreeBSD 6.x and 7.x: 32-bit/64-bit
Windows Server 2003/2008, XP and Windows 7: 32-bit/64-bit
API supporting user level applications
LibPCAP and WinPCAP support
SDK tools included in source code for debugging and prototyping and as examples of how the adapters are used
Host Interface
Bus type 8-lane 2.5 GHz PCIe Gen1
Data transfer modes
  • Bus master DMA
  • Memory write or memory read transactions
Support for 32-bit/64-bit addressing and host DMA addressing
Statistics
RMON1 counters plus Jumbo frame counters per port
Frame and byte counters per filter and per host buffer
Counter sets always delivered as a consistent time-stamped snapshot
Adapter Hardware
Flash Supports two boot images
Memory options Standard SO-DIMM 200-pin 1 GB, 2 GB or 4 GB DDR2 RAM modules
Physical dimensions ½-length full-height PCIe
Environment
Power consumption 25 Watts including SFP SR or RJ45 modules
Operating temperature 0 - 45 °C, 32 - 113 °F
Operating humidity 20 - 80%
Hardware compliance RoHS, UL, CE, FCC, CSA, VCCI, C-TICK
MTBF 266329 hours according to RIAC-HDBK-217Plus