Napatech today provided details on the upcoming release of onboard PTP support on Napatech 1G and 10G adapters. These highly anticipated products promise to make time synchronization implementation much easier for both Napatech OEM vendor customers and end-users.

Napatech have released the latest brief in its “Time to ReThink” series of insights into crucial issues facing OEM vendors. In “Time to ReThink Network Security,” Napatech focuses on the security challenges facing businesses today and proposes a holistic solution based on analysis of a combination of network and security information.

Napatech announced that it has achieved 100 Gbps throughput on a Dell PowerEdge R720 rack server. This makes the PowerEdge R720 ideal for OEM vendors of network appliances who need to analyze up to 10 ports at speeds of 10 Gbps.

Napatech today announced the introduction of new functionality to intelligently identify fragmented IP packets. Available on the latest Napatech network adapters, it provides OEM vendors with a powerful off-load tool to increase performance in networks with many fragmented packets.

Napatech today announced the availability of on-board IEEE1588 PTP (Precision Time Protocol) support on Napatech 1 Gbps and 10 Gbps intelligent network adapters. This will allow Napatech customers to synchronize appliances using Napatech intelligent network adapters to an IEEE1588 PTP master or to use Napatech network adapters as an IEEE15888 PTP master for other systems.

Napatech is to demonstrate a new VMware-based data distribution solution for virtual network appliances at Interop Las Vegas (8th to the 12th of May). The virtualization solution allows multiple network appliances to be consolidated onto a single server platform without having to change the application or the operating system. Napatech’s network adapters ensure that each virtual network appliance receives the data it requires at full line rate ...

Napatech and Spirent Communications will be jointly demonstrating one of the industry’s first data center virtualization environments supporting 40G Ethernet (GbE) server interfaces. The live demo, featured at booth #739 during Interop Las Vegas, May 10 – 12, will showcase the performance and scalability capabilities of virtualized data centers at 40G speeds.

Napatech today announced the introduction of the world’s first 40 Gbps Ethernet adapter for network monitoring and analysis. The NT40E2-1 intelligent network adapter provides a single QSFP-based 40 GbE port and can be used for both packet capture and transmission.

Napatech today announced the introduction of two new NEBS compliant intelligent network adapters. NEBS is an important set of design guidelines for manufacturers of telecom equipment and often a requirement from telecom carriers. The combination of a NEBS compliant server and Napatech’s new NEBS compliant adapters provides a cost effective and reliable platform for development of deep packet capture systems.

nPulse Technologies will demonstrate the world’s first commercial implementation of the open-source, OISF- and DHS-sponsored Suricata IDS/IPS project (http://www.openinfosecfoundation.org) at next week’s RSA Conference in San Francisco.

New whitepapers released by Napatech suggest that Deep Packet Inspection technology can be used to help mobile carriers offer more intelligent mobile data services than “flat-rate” and thereby ensure that mobile revenues keep pace with growing network traffic.

Napatech has been awarded the prestigious Ernst & Young “Entrepreneur of the Year 2010” award in the category “Innovation” in Denmark. This is the second time that Napatech has received this honor having also won in 2008. The jury noted in particular that Napatech is steeped in innovation and is also an internationally oriented company which in a relatively short period of time has become a market leader in its segment. In this regard, Na...

Napatech today announced the opening of a new office in Tokyo, Japan. This follows the opening of our new office in Washington D.C. and Napatech’s entry into India earlier this year. “We are seeing strong demand in the Japanese market for our products, where Japanese OEM vendors have long been at the forefront of developments in IP and broadband in general”, said Henrik Brill Jensen, CEO, Napatech. “In this regard our products are a perfe...

Napatech today announced that it has joined the Network Intelligence Alliance (NI Alliance), a new industry organization created for collaboration among the Network Economy’s technology providers. Participation in the NI Alliance will ensure that Napatech Intelligent Network Adapter products support the existing and future needs of Network Intelligence vendors.

Napatech today announced that it has joined the Open Information Security Foundation’s Suricata initiative as a technology partner. Napatech will directly contribute to the development of Suricata by ensuring that Napatech intelligent network adapters support applications based on Suricata.

Napatech has today opened a new sales office in Washington D.C. to support local OEM customers. This follows expansion of Napatech’s offices in Andover, Massachusetts and Copenhagen, Denmark with a 30% increase in staff globally over the last year.

Napatech will demonstrate full real-time 20Gbps packet capture and replay, as well as full 20Gbps traffic generation at the upcoming Interop New York show from the 18th to 22nd October. The demonstrations will showcase Napatech’s new NT20E2 2x10Gbps intelligent network analysis adapter based on PCI-Express Gen 2.

Napatech has taken its first steps into the Indian market with a Value Added Reseller (VAR) agreement with Rahi Systems. Rahi will become the first local Indian supplier of Napatech intelligent real-time network analysis adapters for OEM customers. Napatech will be exhibiting together with Rahi Systems at Interop Mumbai 2010 from the 28th to the 30th of September.

The Internet is still growing and, as we make the transition from Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) to Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPS) – driven in part by the fact that IPS technology can scale to meet users’ needs in the future.

Frost & Sullivan’s recently released update on the “World Intrusion Detection and Intrusion Prevention Systems Markets” suggests that users of Intrusion Detection and Prevention Systems (IDS/IPS) are willing to pay 3 times more for higher throughput.