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With a strong success record within government and commercial enterprises, nPulse has established a reputation as a leading provider of high-performance network sensors. With OEMs in mind, nPulse Sensors are designed as open, adaptable solutions that deliver essential features, minimize development costs, and accelerate time to market. To this end, nPulse Sensors feature the following elements:
Powerful Acceleration Technology
nPulse Sensors incorporate Packet Capture Express (PCAPx), an acceleration technology, offering a standards-based API, speed, flexibility, and easy of integration. PCAPX dramatically boosts the performance of network security and monitoring applications by transparently balancing computationally-intensive operations between FPGA-based acceleration modules and x86-based multi-core processors. This significantly frees up CPU resources, enabling sensor applications to achieve wire-speed throughput rates up to 10 Gbps.
Open-Source Software Architecture
nPulse Sensors include an Ubuntu-based, security-hardened, Linux distribution, designed to harness the power of advanced multi-core processors. Because the distribution is derived from Ubuntu, engineers and application developers have easy access to a widely available repository of software packages and development tools.
Standards-Based Hardware Platform
nPulse Sensors are based on the Catapult Multi-purpose Platform, a standards-based, server-class, architecture with the following features:
- Multi-core x86-based processor(s)
- Serial ATA drives, up to 2.2 TBytes in a 1U RAID configuration
- Optional 16TBytes with up to 6.2Gbps sustained write-to-disk speed, in a 3U appliance platform
- Full iSCSI support, on a dedicated port, providing virtually unlimited SAN-based storage capacity
- Line-rate monitoring options for Gigabit and 10Gig Ethernet, as well as PoS/ATM