Optical Bypass Adapters support 1 and 10 Gbps signals.September 25, 2008 -
Featuring programmable operation via API, Optical Bypass Adapters include 8 optical connections, supporting 4 full-duplex optical bypass ports. Units automatically switch to bypass or pass-through mode at power failure. Watchdog function can be activated from server if application stops servicing adapter driver, or if server is taken down for maintenance. Featuring half-length format with 1-lane PCI-Express interface, adapters support both single-mode and multimode optical interfaces.
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Original Press release
Napatech Inc.
10 New England Business Center Dr.
Andover, MA, 01810
USA
Napatech Announces New Optical Bypass Adapter for Their Optical 1GbE and 10GbE High-Performance Network Adapters
Product Displays at INTEROP in New York, September 17-19 2008
ANDOVER, Mass., Sept. 16 /-- Napatech announces NEW Optical Bypass Adapters for their 1 Gbps and 10 Gbps high-performance network adapters. The Optical Bypass Adapters features include:
-- 8 optical connections, supporting 4 full-duplex optical bypass ports
-- Support for 1 Gbps, 10 Gbps signals or a mix of these
-- Automatic switch to either bypass or pass-through mode at power failure
-- Watchdog performing automatic switch to bypass or pass-through mode at software driver or application failure
-- Support for application-controlled switch to either bypass or pass-through mode
-- Fully programmable operation via easy-to-use API
-- Switch between bypass or pass-through mode in less than 20 milliseconds
-- Support for both single-mode and multimode optical interfaces through standard LC connectors
-- Half-length format with a 1-lane PCI-Express interface
Due to the increased deployment of their adapters in mission-critical operations requiring advanced Fail-safe solutions beyond what external optical bypass switches can accommodate, Napatech has launched their NEW 4-port Optical Bypass Adapter enhancing the usual power failure bypass with a watchdog function which can be activated from the server if an application stops servicing the adapter driver, or if the server is taken down for maintenance in a controlled way.
Available in two versions supporting both Long Range single-mode on 9-micrometer optical fibers and Short Range multimode on 50-micrometer optical fibers, the Adapter can be configured to enter into either bypass or pass-through mode at power failure or heartbeat failure.
The Optical Bypass Adapter is added to an already feature-rich product line offered by Napatech. Their high-performance adapters include features such as line rate capture and processing of frames up to 20 Gbps, 10 ns time-stamping of every packet, channel merging, frame classification, conditional dynamic frame slicing, 64 user-programmable filters, packet coloring, deduplication, support for 32 CPU cores, and more, supporting Linux, FreeBSD and Windows, and including a programming interface with development tools.
About Napatech
Napatech is a leading OEM supplier of multi-port 1GbE and multi-port 10GbE high-performance network adapters with sales, marketing and R&D offices in Mountain View, California, Andover, Massachusetts and Copenhagen, Denmark. The core idea is to off-load real-time/streaming protocol, payload analysis and control applications traditionally implemented in software or proprietary hardware.
For more information visit us at: http://www.napatech.com/, or please contact:
CONTACT: Nicholas Arraje, VP Sales of Napatech, Inc., 1-888-318-8288, ext. 707
Web site: http://www.napatech.com/
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