All-in-One Network Recorder
Multi-Port -- Multi-Format -- Multi-Speed
PacketRAID delivers remarkable performance and flexibility with an intuitive GUI in a standard 2U rackmount chassis. Designed for use in test labs and in network security applications, it can record and replay almost any type of traffic at a wide range of speeds.
2-12 Ports
Each port rated up to 10G
Takes standard SFP+ optics
Supports 850, 1310 and 1550nm
Concurrent
Record and replay at the same time
Mixed formats across all ports
Synchronise start across multiple ports
Remote Control
JSON API for control and monitoring
All operations can be automated
Optionally use PAM for authentication
Multi-Format
Ethernet - standard LANPHY
Ethernet over SDH - WANPHY
SONET / SDH - concatenated PoS
Intuitive GUI
Simple to control and manage
Multiple users allowed at the same time
Command line and scripting fully supported
Open Platform
Runs standard CentOS
Full root access provided
1 spare PCIe slot available
Multi-Speed
Record LAN and WAN frames from 10G
Record packets from concatenated STM-64
Record raw bits from 100MbE to OTU2e
Graphs and Stats
Bit, packet and error rates monitored
Stats archived per port and per recording
Graph and zoom data interactively
Solid State Storage
Large SSD data array in RAID 0, 50 or 60
Standard Linux XFS filesystem
>60Gb/s sustained read / write throughput
PacketRAID Specifications
PacketRAID can record and replay 4 10G packet streams at once - any mix of LAN ethernet, WAN ethernet and PoS (SDH). It can also record and replay 1G ethernet and below, as well as signals at the raw bit level including STM-1, STM-4, STM-16, channelised STM-64, OTU2 and OTU2e.
All data is stored on a very high speed SSD RAID array - optimised for sustained throughput and built with a standard Linux filing system (XFS). The use of solid state technology allows PacketRAID to record on some ports whilst replaying on others at the same time - there are no disk seek times to impact performance. Data can be imported or exported over NFS, SMB or any other standard protocol.
All aspects of the PacketRAID can be remote-controlled, and sample scripts are provided for BASH and Python. Within The Packet Company, we use this feature to automate product testing via Jenkins.
- Dual 8-core hyper-threaded Xeon E5 v4 3.2GHz
- 256 GiB 2166MHz ECC DDR4
- 48TB removable SSD in RAID0/50/60
- 2-12 10G ports for LAN/WAN/PoS
- Dual hot-swap 1kW PSUs
- IPMI BMC controller for remote management
- Dual port 10GbE or single port 40GbE NIC
- Stock Linux kernel with XFS filing system
- 2U rackmount chassis
- Precision time-stamping and accurate replay