FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 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, 2008 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) -- INTEROP -- 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: North America Nicholas Arraje, VP Sales 1-888-318-8288 ext. 707 nick.arraje@napatech.com Europe Stig Bang, Sales Director +45 4038 3403 sb@napatech.com *(LOGO Link 72dpi: Send2Press.com/mediaboom/08-0915-Napatech_72dpi.jpg) All trademarks acknowledged. Send2Press(R) is the originating wire service for this story, Copr. 2008. NEWS SOURCE: Napatech, Inc. # # # //RELEASE END// MEDIA ONLY CONTACT(S): [ contact info not for publication online or in print ] Nicholas Arraje, VP Sales Napatech, Inc. +1-888-318-8288 ext. 707 nick.arraje @ napatech.com //Note to editors: eMediaKit(tm) and RSS feed for Napatech: http://www.send2press.com/newswire/Napatech.shtml ......... Plain Text Copy, and Story Permalink: http://www.Send2Press.com/mediadrome/2008-09-0916-002.txt Release PDF: http://www.Send2Press.com/mediadrome/news_2008-09-0916-002.pdf Get our full-text news via RSS: http://www.Send2Press.com/RSS2/rss.xml ......... Text provided by news source (and/or the source's authorized agency), who is solely responsible for accuracy and legality of content transmitted. ......... This news story from Send2Press Newswire may be redistributed and re-posted in part or in whole by members of the media. Copr. (c) Send2Press, a unit of Neotrope(R). For news aggregation sites, blogs, and bureaus, you must retain Send2Press as the original wire service source. You may capture and self-host images linked to in above release, but do NOT stream from our server. ......... The original version of this release was issued on behalf of the above organization (the "news source"), by Send2Press(R) Newswire, a service of Neotrope(R). http://www.Send2Press.com. ......... September 2008 Press Release / B-NAB MA / IND: COMP INTEROP OEM HARDW BUS / Massachusetts Newswire(TM) / ytv =