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Solera Networks' Deep Packet Capture and Storage Speeds Validated By Miercom Performance Verified Award(TM)

Posted on: Tuesday, 29 April 2008, 09:00 CDT

Solera Networks today announced that Miercom Communications Inc., an independent laboratory testing company, completed a "Miercom Performance Verified" test on the Solera Networks DS5100. The test validates Solera Networks' claim of providing comprehensive and accurate network surveillance through real-time traffic capture and storage on today's high-speed 10 gigabit networks. The full report can be accessed at www.soleranetworks.com.

During testing, the DS5100 achieved 8.1 Gbps sustained and 10 Gbps burst data capture and storage with zero loss of packets. It proved to be an easy-to-use appliance with a highly functional Web-based interface.

"Miercom's independent objectivity is well known in the industry. We were very pleased to see their tests confirmed our own Solera DS5100 test results," said Steve Shillingford, CEO of Solera Networks. "This provides further validation that our unique design, based entirely in software, gives customers the best price performance and flexibility in the industry."

The Miercom report states, "We verified that the DS5100 was capable of capturing data at a faster rate than any other product we have seen in our lab." The report also indicated "few, if any, other products on the market can record all packets to storage for analysis and playback within 1 ms of capture. The DS5100's capabilities allow for the creation of a comprehensive record of network traffic (including headers and payload)."

Highlights from the Solera Networks DS5100 test include:

The DS5100 attained a sustained throughput of 8.1 Gbps with no packet loss

The appliance was able to handle 10 Gbps bursts of traffic without packet loss

Filtering of captured data is enabled through an easy-to-use, Web-based graphical interface

The appliance can replay captured data for analysis and security event remediation

"Complete network visibility requires access to a complete record of all information that crosses the network," said Bojan Simic, analyst, Network Management Research from Aberdeen Group. "High-speed packet capture capabilities help enable organizations to take control over their networks and achieve their network management and security goals."

Solera Networks will be showcasing their DS line of deep packet capture and storage solutions at Interop Las Vegas in booth 1971.

About Solera Networks

Solera Networks is the leader in providing network visibility via deep packet capture and stream-to-storage technology. Solera Networks' DS Series is a line of high-performance appliances, including software-only virtual appliances, which capture, record, and archive 100% of network traffic at speeds up to 10 Gbps. Captured traffic is written to a scalable, disk-based cache system and presented in multiple industry-standard formats, including PCAP, as a virtual network interface, or as regenerated network traffic. The captured data is then accessible instantly via Solera Networks' search, alert and archive interfaces, or via any standards-based security, forensics, compliance, analytics or network management application. Those applications can then perform their analysis on either live or stored data, at live, throttled or accelerated playback speeds, using sophisticated filters based on source/destination, protocol, time period and other variables, providing complete visibility into all network traffic without affecting the production network's performance. For more information on Solera Networks, visit http://www.soleranetworks.com.

Source: Business Wire

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