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Members of the jury evaluated the NT40E2-1 in a live demonstration with Spirent TestCenter using HyperMetrics 40/100G test modules as well as Spirent TestCenter Virtual.

Napatech’s NT40E2-1 provides full 40 GbE packet capture of burst traffic, which in the demo at Interop was distributed to virtual machines on a per port, protocol, flow and service basis based on Napatech’s VMware support.

The latest capability to be offered by Napatech is virtualization support allowing several monitoring applications running on virtual machines to share data captured at line rate by one or more Napatech network adapters.

“Not only does the NT40E2-1 provide a high-speed physical interface offers frame decoding, intelligent flow detection and distribution to up to 32 CPU cores, which can off-load and accelerate the performance of network appliances”, said Henrik Brill Jensen, CEO Napatech. “It also provides the intelligence and acceleration features to help OEM vendors deal with the 60m of packets per second that 40 GbE networks can generate”.