Intelligent Network Adapters

NT4E Capture
4-Port 10M / 100M / 1G Ethernet PCIe
DATA SHEET

Hardware Acceleration
The NT4E Capture Adapters provide deep packet inspection
(DPI), flow analysis and protocol processing capabilities that
can accelerate network applications and off-load the server
CPU by taking care of layer 2 to 4 network traffic analysis.
This enables OEM customers to build or upgrade their products
to become high-performing full-line-rate 4 or 8Gbps network
monitoring/analysis systems by using the NT4E Capture
Adapter and a standard Linux, FreeBSD or Windows server.
NT4E-4: 4x1Gbps PCIe

Server

HW Time Stamp and Time Sync CPU Core 1

Intelligent Frame Processing
4 x 1 Gbps ports

Intelligent Flow Identification CPU Core 2

Frame and Flow Filtering
Intelligent Multi-CPU Distribution
Advanced Statistics
Monitoring Sensors
Linux, FreeBSD and Windows CPU Core 32

NT4E-4T: 4x1Gbps PCIe

Adapter

Feature Highlights and Applications

Feature Highlights Napatech-Supported Applications

4x1Gbps 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
Extremely low CPU load
High-precision 10ns time-stamping
Advanced hardware time synchronization
3 or 6sec. of onboard data burst buffering
4 or 8Gbps frame processing including protocol decoding,
programmable filters, conditional slicing, hash keys, buffering,
advanced statistics, deduplication and multi-CPU support
Temperature and voltage sensors
On-the-fly fully reconfigurable setup
Easy-to-integrate API
LibPCAP and WinPCAP support
The Napatech Capture Adapters enable our OEM vendors
to build cost-effective and value-added appliances to meet
requirements for many different solutions. Examples of
supported applications are:
Advanced Frame Analysis and Statistics
Packet Jitter and Latency Analysis
Flow Analysis of any IP end-to-end traffic
Data Recording of network traffic
Data Retention, Logging and Forensic Analysis
Lawful Intercept
Intrusion Detection
Network QoS Assurance for media streams
Transaction Performance Analysis

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 Specifications

General Features Host Interface

Full-line-rate processing for all frames from 64 bytes to Bus type: 8-lane 2.5GHz PCIe Gen1:
10,000 bytes (fully compatible with 4-lane 2.5 GHz PCIe Gen1)
IEEE standard: IEEE 802.3 10Mbit/s / 100Mbit/s / 1Gbit/s Data transfer modes:
Ethernet Bus master DMA
Physical interfaces: Memory write or memory read transactions
NT4E-4: 4 SFP ports
NT4E-4T: 4 RJ45 ports Statistics
Supported SFP modules: Multimode SX (850nm), single-mode RMON1 counters plus Jumbo frame counters per port
LX (1310nm), single-mode ZX (1550 nm), 1000BASE-T or Frame and byte counters per filter and per host buffer
10/100/1000BASE-T Counter sets always delivered as a consistent time-stamped
Data rate: 4x1Gbit/s or 8x1Gbit/s snapshot
PCIe performance: 12.5Gbit/s
Typical CPU load: 5% Adapter Hardware
Time formats: PCAP-ns/-s, native, NDIS 10ns/100ns, Flash: Supports two boot images
UNIX 10ns Memory options: Standard SO-DIMM 200-pin 2GB or 4GB
DDR2 RAM modules
Software Physical dimensions: -length full-height PCIe
Linux, FreeBSD and Windows
API supporting user level applications Environment
LibPCAP and WinPCAP support Power consumption: 25Watts including SFP SR or RJ45
SDK tools included in source code for debugging and modules
prototyping and as examples of how the adapters are used Operating temperature: 0 C to 45C (32 F to 113F)
Operating humidity: 20% to 80%
Regulatory Approvals MTBF: 266,329 hours according to RIAC-HDBK-217Plus
CE, CB, RoHS, REACH, cURus (UL), FCC, CSA, VCCI, C-TICK

Company Profile

Napatech is the leading supplier of real-time analysis adapters
with over 140,000 Ethernet ports deployed worldwide. Designed
for use with Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) servers,
Napatech adapters enable rapid development of powerful
appliances for high performance analysis. Napatech adapters
guarantee real-time delivery of data at speeds up to 40 Gbps.
Intelligent features allow network data analysis to be off-
loaded, thereby accelerating application analysis for managing,
securing and optimizing networks and services. When
performance matters, the worlds largest equipment vendors in
telecom, enterprise, financial and government markets choose
Napatech. Customers depend on Napatech for reliable delivery,
complimentary maintenance and upgrades, and experienced
global customer support.

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