Features and specification
Feature Highlights
- Network ports: 4 × SFP+
- Capture of Ethernet traffic: Full 4 × 10/1 Gbps
- Zero packet loss for all frame sizes
- 4 GB DDR3 RAM buffer (800 ms at 40 Gbps)
- Typical CPU load: < 5% of one core
- Addressing up to 1 TB application buffer memory
- Packet or segment delivery to application
- Hardware-accelerated:
- Multi-port packet merge
- Load distribution across up to 128 CPU cores
- 1 ns time stamp resolution
- Frame and protocol information
- Filtering based on e.g. L3/L4 criteria
- GTP, IP-in-IP, GRE and NVGRE tunneling support
- IP fragment handling
- Slicing at fixed or dynamic offset
- Deduplication in hardware
- RMON1 counters, including jumbo frames
- IEEE 1588-2008 PTP and PPS time synchronization
- OS time synchronization
- Easy-to-integrate API
- Linux, Windows, libpcap, WinPcap and DPDK
General Features
- Full line-rate processing for all frames from 64 bytes to 10,000 bytes – keep or discard erroneous frames
- IEEE standard: IEEE 802.3 10/1 Gbps, 100 Mbps Ethernet support
- Network interface: 4 × SFP+ ports
- Supported SFP modules: 1000BASE-SX, 1000BASE-LX, 1000BASE-ZX, 1000BASE-T or 100/1000BASE-T
- Supported SFP+ modules: Multi-mode SR, single-mode LR and ER, 10GBASE-CR
- Supported dual-rate SFP+ modules: Multi-mode SR and single-mode LR
- Data rate: 4 × 10/1 Gbps
- Typical CPU load: < 5%
- Time formats: PCAP-ns/-μs and UNIX 10 ns / 1 ns
- Time stamp resolution: 1 ns
- Stratum 3 compliant TCXO
- Pluggable options for IEEE 1588-2008 PTP and PPS time synchronization
- PTP slave in IEEE 1588-2008 default, power, enterprise and telecom (G.8265.1, G.8275.1) profiles
SmartNIC Hardware
- Bus type: 8-lane 8 GT/s PCIe Gen3
- 4 GB onboard DDR3 RAM
- Flash: Support for two boot images
- Built-in thermal protection
- Physical dimensions: ½-length and full-height PCIe
- Weight excluding pluggable modules:
- NT40E3-4-PTP: 260 g
- NT40E3-4-PTP-NEBS: 285 g
- MTBF according to UTE C 80-810:
- NT40E3-4-PTP: 297,993 hours
- NT40E3-4-PTP-NEBS: 367,807 hours
- Power consumption including SFP+ SR modules:
- NT40E3-4-PTP: max 27 Watts
- NT40E3-4-PTP-NEBS: max 30 Watts
