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Solera Networks packet capture and deep packet inspection platform now supports fully saturated 10Gb networks

Solera Networks announced the availability of the DS 5100 series of capture and stream-to-storage appliances capable of lossless, deep packet capture and recording of fully saturated 10Gb networks.

“As companies migrate to 10 Gigabit networks, their existing need to monitor network traffic to manage their network performance and improve network security is increased exponentially,” said Steve Shillingford, CEO of Solera Networks. “We are the only company that can capture network traffic and then stream-to-storage at full 10Gbps line rates. While other products may be able to inspect a subset of the packets, no other product can record all packets to storage for analysis and playback within one millisecond of capture. We provide the inline benefits to existing network tools unable to handle 10Gb speeds, without the inline risk.”

Solera Networks’ deep packet capture and stream-to-storage appliances are the foundation of effective layered-security solutions and provide a comprehensive network surveillance fabric. By performing complete deep packet inspection on historical data, network security analysts and network administrators can roll back the clock, analyze anomalous traffic, and thereby improve all layers of security and management. They can then use applications of their choice versus having to use proprietary solutions.

Firewalls, network access control, antivirus, and intrusion detection systems each provide an important layer of security in the network, but can typically detect threats only when they are known in advance. Solera Networks appliances act much like a digital video recorder (DVR) for the network, capturing every single packet (header and payload) that crosses the network to enable post-event analysis, remediation and prevention. With Solera Networks’ unique data architecture, network analysts can search, reconstruct and analyze all of the captured traffic using any tool of their choice, including popular open-source applications such as Snort and Wireshark.

Shillingford continued, “Unlike other solutions using off-the-shelf file systems, Solera Networks’ hardened operating system, special purpose file system, and unique data architecture are explicitly designed to overcome the inherent limitations of speed and memory, enabling the capture, recording, and playback of network data as fast as it is delivered. Our appliances (including our software-only virtual appliances) sit passively on the network, allowing an analyst to know everything that is happening on the network without adding yet another bump in the wire.”

Solera Networks Breaks Stream-to-Disk Performance Records in Network Capture and Storage

Solera Networks, a premier provider of deep network packet capture appliances, today announced sustained packet capture and stream to disk network traffic capture exceeding 400 MBytes/second or 3 Gbits/second, without packet loss on packets sizes ranging from 64 bytes to 1500 bytes with its DS Series Network Traffic Recorder. These performance levels demonstrate the ability to capture every packet on three fully saturated 1Gb networks with a combination of fiber and 1000BaseT topologies.

Additional tests indicate sustained capture and store to disk of over 1,000,000 packets/second on a single capture card. Extensive testing indicates that a Solera DS appliance configured with 3 capture cards can sustain rates of over 2 million packets/second capture stream to disk.

These performance characteristics far exceed any other network packet stream-to-disk supplier. The Solera DS Series of Linux 2.6-based appliances set a new standard for full visibility to network traffic and provide a full picture to what is happening or what happened on a network or networks.

The necessity of deep packet capture is essential to network forensics, network management applications and analysts who are tasked to know what is happening and what has happened on the networks for which they have responsibility. The ability to further store these packets to disk at these phenomenal data rates give network forensics or network management personnel the luxury of “time shifting” their analysis. In other words, to go back in time to investigate management or security concerns. Furthermore, these tests indicate an ability to replay or reconstruct sessions (often referred to as flows) with the knowledge that ALL packets of a given session are available.

Solera Networks provides a platform whereby a wide array of network forensics, security and management applications are available. Solera’s unique approach to providing access to captured data in industry standard access methods allows for easy integration with existing applications that a customer may have; while giving them the option to select “best of breed” applications for solving problems and utilizing the network capture storage provided by these appliances. The Solera DS Appliance and Solera File System Architecture currently supports hundreds of vertical, open source, and industry standard network forensic and network management applications.

Solera Networks DS series of appliances provide a variety of network packet storage options that scale from 800 GBytes of storage to 128 TBytes of storage.