FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: (of interest to editors covering: Computing, Network Equip., Mass. Business) Napatech Introduces New Cost-Effective 4 Port GbE Adapter ANDOVER, Mass., April 7, 2009 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) -- Napatech today announced the introduction of a new member to their NT4 family of high-performance 4 port 1 Gbps Ethernet network adapters for PCI-Express. The new adapter is named NT4E-STD and is an enhanced PCI-Express version of the widely deployed Napatech XD adapter for PCI-X. The NT4E-STD provides 4 x 1 Gbps Ethernet ports, doubling the number of interfaces currently provided by the XD Adapter and thereby halving the port cost. The NT4E-STD also provides complete RMON1 standard support allowing full off-load of statistics collection from host CPUs. In addition to PCI-Express and RMON1 support, the NT4E-STD provides a number of additional enhancements to the XD feature set: * Support for 4 x 1 Gbps ports both electrical RJ45 and Optical SFP versions * Support for additional DDR2 RAM for data burst buffering up to 4 GB * Fixed Slicing functionality for payload discard * Support for Multiple CPU cores via 1, 2, 3 or 4 host buffers with individual statistics. The NT4E-STD uses the same API and programming interfaces as Napatech's other adapter products. "The new NT4E-STD PCI-Express adapters enable our OEM customers to provide very advanced solutions with a high port density at an attractive price point. The NT4E-STD family provides advanced time stamping features as well as new statistics features, which combined with its attractive price offers our OEM customers a cost-effective platform for the future," says Nick Arraje, VP of Sales North America at Napatech. By implementing the full RMON1 standard (RFC2819) a very detailed view of network traffic can be presented with zero CPU load. RMON1 provides jumbo frame counters on a per-port basis, which offer a number of useful "good/bad" statistics for each of the four host buffers supported. These statistics are presented as "snapshots," which are transferred to the host through a separate DMA process followed by a time stamp. The new advanced statistics allow appliances/applications to present a very detailed view of network traffic at practically zero CPU load. Napatech's high-performance adapters include line rate capture and processing of frames up to 20 Gbps, 10 ns time-stamping of every packet, channel merging, frame classification, conditional dynamic slicing, 64 user-programmable filters, packet coloring, deduplication, support for 32 CPU cores, and more. The feature set supports Linux, FreeBSD and Windows, and includes a programming interface and development tools. About Napatech Napatech is a leading OEM supplier of multi-port 1GbE and multi-port 10GbE high-performance network adapters. The core idea is to off-load real-time/streaming protocol, payload analysis and control applications traditionally implemented in software or proprietary hardware. Napatech expects a huge growth in the demand for high performance adapters as Ethernet speeds increase. Napatech has sales, marketing and R&D offices in Mountain View, California, Andover, Massachusetts, and Copenhagen, Denmark. For more information visit us at: www.napatech.com . *(LOGO 72dpi: Send2Press.com/mediaboom/08-0429-Napatech_72dpi.jpg) All trademarks and service marks are the property of the respective parties. Send2Press(R) is the originating wire service for this story, Copr. 2009. 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