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[Keith Sinclair]

Carl,

Lincoln has a good point, that's alot of data, and the solutions are expensive, what outcome are after?  Forensics?  Trading floor, "voice recording"?

I have used Niksuns and Network General gear in the past, the Niksuns gear most recently and it was definitely high performance and is quite popular on wall street for trading floor "playback" and forensics. 

I have been told that Network General had competing products, but no experience with that product line.


Regards


Keith

On 01/06/2012, at 9:41 AM, Lincoln Dale <ltd at aristanetworks.com> wrote:

> On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 7:27 PM, carl gough [mobsource] <carl at mobsource.com> wrote:
> Ive been told that at 10G/s 40G/s and 100G/s there is no other technology
> that captures 100% of packets -
> 
> Whoever told you that is wrong.
> 
> 10GbE linerate is only 1000MB/s, 40GbE linerate is 4000MB/s, 100GbE linerate is 10000MB/s.
> There's no rocket science in 'capture 100% of packets' at 10G, 40G or 100G is relatively trivial.
> 
> Doing something meaningful with said data is less trivial but again isn't too hard really. Its really just a function of N x disk spindles and streaming write speeds.
> 
> Can this be done 'trivially' using off-the-shelf equipment?  Actually it can.  But its not necessarily cheap particularly for 40G/100G and clearly one needs a lot of disk spindles to sustain linerate and/or store for extended time periods.
> 
> 
> cheers,
> 
> lincoln.
> 
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