DAG 7.5G2/G4 Network Monitoring Card
The Endace® DAG® 7.5G2/G4 Network Monitoring Cards, with Data Stream Manager (DSM), provide 2 or 4 Gbps sustained, lossless, traffic capture and inspection on 10/100/1000BASE-T and optical Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) networks. Leveraging the latest PCIe expansion slot technology, the DAG 7.5G2/G4 enables equipment manufacturers to develop solutions on commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) servers that inspect all traffic for the purpose of real-time or post analysis. With synchronised sub-10 nanosecond time stamping capabilities, the card can be used to precisely measure network performance, identifying issues that may affect mission-critical applications and time-sensitive services such as financial market data distribution systems.
Highlights
- 2/4 ports for 1000BASE-SX or 1000BASE-LX Optical Ethernet or 10/100/1000BASE-T Electrical Ethernet using SFP pluggable transceivers.
- DAG technology provides 100% capture into host memory at full line rate for all IP packets from 64 to 9600 bytes (including Jumbo frames).
- Full packet, header only or set length (truncated) packet capture.
- Designed to integrate easily into commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) server hardware through any 4-lane PCI Express interface slot.
- Full line-rate traffic capture and filtering based on:
- Ethertype.
- Src/Dst Ethernet MAC Addresses.
- 5-Tuple IPv4 packet information (Src/Dst IP addresses, Src/Dst ports, protocol type and protocol flags).
- Non-blocking simultaneous capture and transmit.
- Link and filter statistics counters for reporting and analysis.
- Two-way CPU load balancing for increased processing performance.
- Precise packet time-stamping and clock synchronization by GPS for applications that require highly accurate measurements over long distances.
- Support for industry standard PCAP capture format (libPCAP / WinPCAP).
- Invisible to all other network elements with no MAC or IP Address assigned to the DAG interface ports.
- Relative timed data replay option enables precise reproduction of traffic conditions (TR-TERF).
Technical Specification
| SFP Interface Options | 2 or 4x 1000 BASE-SX SFP transceivers MMF
850nm LC optical connectors, or; 2 or 4x 1000 BASE-LX SFP transceivers SMF 1310nm LC optical connectors, or; 2 or 4x 1000 BASE-ZX SFP transceivers SMF 1550nm LC optical connectors or, 2 or 4x 10/100/1000 BASE-T SFP transceivers with ‘RJ-45’/8P8C connectors. |
| Network Type | IEEE802.3 Ethernet |
| Time Synchronization | External: ‘RJ-45’ connector (7.5G4) IEEE-1394 serial
(7.5G2) for RS-422 PPS Signal from GPS or CDMA
receiver. Internal: Host PC clock. Also able to synchronize with other DAG cards. |
| Packet Timestamping | 7.5ns clock resolution |
| PCI Interface | 4-lane PCIe 1.1 |
| Minimum Systems Requirements | Endace software is supported on the following operating systems: LINUX, FreeBSD, Windows Server 2003.
Please refer to the most recent software Release Notes or contact support@endace.com for system specific information. x86 processor 1GHz or better, 1 GB RAM, 1 GB disk space for tools installation One free PCIe slot. |
| Power Requirements | Less than 20W |
| Operating Temperature | 0 to 55 deg C |
| Operating Humidity | 5 to 95% non condensing |
| Physical Dimensions | 7.5G2 (2-Port) PCIe 1.1 Half height, half length Height 64.25mm (2.53“) Length 167.5mm (6.6”) 7.5G4 (4-Port) PCIe 1.1 Full height, half length Height 106.7mm (4.2”) Length 167.5mm (6.6”) |
| *This device complies with Part 15 of the FCC Rules. Operation is subject to the following two conditions: (1) this device may not cause harmful interference, and (2) this device must accept any interference received, including interference that may cause undesired operation. | |
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