Myricom: Extreme Performance Ethernet

“The performance and cost-effectiveness of Myricom's Sniffer10G lossless packet capture and injection solution allowed us to replace specialized packet capture cards at a fraction of the cost, thereby enabling deployment of thousands more servers within the same budget,” said Greg Lefelar, Vice President of Sales at Jeskell Systems, one of the top 100 U.S. integrators serving federal, state, and local government agencies. “Sniffer10G 2.0, with new features like injection and precision timestamping, is a game changer for our key government customers who require large scale deployment with compelling return-on-investment economics.”

Sniffer10G 2.0 serves the following market segments: network surveillance, monitoring and analysis; deep packet inspection; test, measurement and packet generation; and as a critical technology component within distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) defense appliances. Sniffer10G 2.0 running on Myricom network adapters offers a powerful, highly cost-effective technology solution in performance-sensitive and mission-critical environments.

Sniffer10G 2.0:

• Provides line-rate throughput with 100% lossless packet capture and injection for all Ethernet packet sizes.
• Reduces latency with a packet capture mechanism that adapts to incoming packet rates such that packets can be received within a couple of microseconds.
• Uses partitioning, duplication, and process sharing for enhanced multi-core awareness:
  • By partitioning incoming flows across available CPU cores, Sniffer10G 2.0 can relax the processing time constraints under high packet loads for applications performing deep packet inspection (DPI).
  • Sniffer10G 2.0 can duplicate incoming packets into multiple receive rings so that multiple CPU cores can concurrently apply different search criteria on the same data.
• Timestamps all incoming packets in the Myri-10G network adapter to reflect actual packet arrival time.
• Provides send queues that can work in conjunction with the standard Ethernet driver for transmission.
• Allows network traffic from two or more ports, from the same or different Myri-10G adapters, to be aggregated into a single logical receiver

“Our first version of Sniffer10G enabled 100% (lossless) packet capture of 10-Gigabit Ethernet traffic streams. With our new version, Sniffer10G 2.0, Myricom is extending those core technology capabilities to include packet injection and precision timestamping, plus features to allow more efficient multi-core packet processing by applications,” said Dr. Nan Boden, CEO of Myricom. “With its additional capabilities, Sniffer10G 2.0 is positioned to be a key technology component within a wide range of network security appliances and applications that require extreme networking performance.”

Sniffer10G 2.0 for Linux, FreeBSD, and Windows is available now. For more information about Sniffer10G and other Myricom extreme-performance Ethernet products, please contact This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .