12 April 2011
Endace New Range of Network Monitoring and Recording Systems for Government Agencies
EndaceProbe™ 3820 Redefines Space,Weight, and Power (SWaP) Standards for Mass Data Acquisition
Auckland, New Zealand — Endace (LSE: EDA), world leaders in high-performance network monitoring and recording, today announced the general availability of the EndaceProbe 3820, the first 1U, feature-rich, data acquisition system capable of delivering sustained 4 x 10 Gb/s lossless data acquisition with sub-6.5E-6 Joule-per-Packet power consumption.
Data acquisition, for the purposes of intelligence gathering, is widely regarded as one of the most resource intensive and technically challenging activities in intelligence networking. Historically characterized by “heavy-iron” system deployments, involving expensive routers, sophisticated switching gear and custom systems, a radical overhaul of the architecture has been long overdue.
The EndaceProbe 3820 is a 1U, 19 inch, 25 KG system that guarantees continuous lossless packet capture on four highly configurable 10 Gb/s monitoring ports. Each monitoring port can be configured to receive and transmit a wide range of different framing formats, including SONET (OC-192) and 10 GbE LAN/WAN. Monitoring support is provided for both channelized and unchannelized SONET, as well as full visibility into potential covert channels.
The Endace 3820 is designed to be deployed in secure environments as part of an integrated data acquisition and analytics “fabric.” Like all Endace Systems, the 3820 leverages Endace’s three layer technology architecture to deliver full platform-application separation. The platform uses FPGA technology, tightly integrated into commodity multi-core Intel® hardware, Endace OSm, which delivers central management capability and a powerful multi-application hosting environment into which agencies can easily deploy custom packet classification and filtering applications.
Neil Livingston, chief product officer at Endace, said: “We’ve worked closely with our government intelligence customers over the last ten years and have built up an intimate understanding of their feature, performance and SWaP requirements. The 3820 brings those requirements to life and is redefining how government customers think about data acquisition. The ability to provide such a rich set of functionality in such a lightweight, low power unit represents a major step forward for customers trying to monitor heterogeneous network environments.”
Key features of the EndaceProbe 3820 include:
- Four individually configurable Rx interfaces
- Four individually configurable Tx interfaces
- Full bandwidth, minimum packet size on all interfaces simultaneously
- Full support for custom packet classification and distribution algorithms
- Access to SONET/SDH channel structures without the need for external switches or routers
- Access to all SONET/SDH overheads for complete channel inspection
- Low rack space utilization (1U), and ultra-low power consumption (6.25 uJoule/packet)
- Hardware-based time-stamping to +/- 7.5 nSec resolution
- Single SKU coverage for the broadest range of interface types and speeds
- Central management capability for fabric deployments
- Open multi-application hosting environment
- Four TB of onboard RAID storage
Endace will be demonstrating the EndaceProbe 3820, along with the recently launched EndaceSensor range, at the upcoming DoDIIS show in Detroit. DoDIIS runs between May 1 and 4, 2011, and Endace can be found exhibiting in booth number 225.
About Endace
Endace provides open network monitoring and recording systems that form the basis for mission critical network security, monitoring and measurement solutions. Endace Systems are designed to be deployed from the edge to the core of the network, creating a complete monitoring and recording fabric on top of which a range of custom, open-source or commercial applications can be deployed.
One hundred percent packet capture is now widely accepted as a non-negotiable input to applications that are being used to help organizations manage risk, reputation and compliance. Based on proprietary DAG technology, Endace’s systems have a global reputation for consistently monitoring and recording 100-percent of network traffic at speeds up to 40 Gb/s.
Based in Auckland, New Zealand, Endace also has offices in the U.K. and the United States. Quoted on London's AIM, the stock code is LSE: EDA.