It’s been a busy six months at nPulse Technologies. We’ve achieved a huge milestone this week: the release of our HammerHead 3.0, Ultrafast Packet Capture Solution. Below is an htop snapshot of a HammerHead streaming 10Gbps-to-disk, sustained for 30 minutes without packet loss while tracking, indexing, and exporting flows. Notice the distribution of threads across the processor cores with a CPU load of only 0.27.
10Gbps HammerHead Capture & Replay boxes in action (above)
Incredulous Performance?
Often times we’re asked if our solutions can “really” write-to-disk at 10Gbps sustained as if there is special magic involved. Others, challenge us by saying it is physically impossible to do this with standard commodity hardware. When I hear this, I am reminded of the following riddle:
Q: How many computer scientists does it take to change a light-bulb?
A: None. It’s a hardware problem. Get an engineer to do it.
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