The GigaStor provides massive data collection and unique time-based analysis that eliminates the need to recreate problems—rapidly decreasing resolution time.

Now available for WAN, LAN, Fibre Channel, gigabit and 10 GbE networks. Portable units are also available

Retrospective Network Analysis
Stop missing critical events. With the GigaStor everything is captured - every transaction, every packet, every protocol. And it’s captured for hours, days, weeks, sometimes months. With this data and a unique time-based navigation system, your networking team has the benefit of perfect hindsight to attack every network problem and anomaly.

Now it is easy to “rewind” your network, determine the source, perform comprehensive analysis, and move on.

Network Forensics
The GigaStor plays a significant role in data mining, network forensics, and data retention compliance. For example, the GigaStor not only shows communications that occurred, but it can reconstruct the mined data—providing hard evidence such as phone conversations, web pages, documents, instant messages, and e-mails.

Security Forensics
Use the Network Instruments® GigaStor to solve security problems. Because the GigaStor acts like a security camera it records every action occurring on the network. If a breach is suspected, the GigaStor compares the breach to thousands of network attacks and anomalies with “Snort style” IDS functionality. Once identified, the GigaStor provides drill-down analysis to determine the source and time of the occurrence.

Security Forensics benefits:

• View security and access violations in context of all network activity
• Validate and provide evidence for compliancy and security issues
• Go back in time and find the source of zero-day violations
• Break down the silos of IT department factions (troubleshooting and security) by delivering data to both
• Reconstruct network communications, files, web pages (including images), instant messaging texts, e-mails, and VoIP calls

Hold Everything
GigaStor can hold up to 48 TB of data or offload to a SAN for almost unlimited storage potential. The appliance continually updates and tracks storage capacity, as it pertains to your network. Choose 4 TB, 8 TB, 12 TB or scale up to 48 TB with GigaStor Expandable.

Comprehensive Analysis
GigaStor provides long-term, real-time, and post-capture network statistics across multiple topologies and technologies. Track bandwidth utilization, network top talkers, individual link utilization, application metrics, NetFlow data, and much more with a full arsenal of information at your fingertips. Expert analysis provides insight into possible causes for network performance and offers immediate solutions.

Ideal for Transaction-Heavy Organisations
The GigaStor is ideal for data mining and network forensics. Filter and mine network data by MAC stations, IP stations, IP pairs, TCP ports, UDP ports, VLANs, and physical ports. For example, for monitoring slow Oracle transactions simply choose your time-window and filter through the Oracle protocols. GigaStor provides the ability to quickly drill down to individual application metrics to immediately isolate and resolve the problem.

Gen2™ Ensures Line-Rate Captures
All full-duplex gigabit and Fibre Channel products include the Gen2 capture card designed exclusively by Network Instruments. Obtain the fastest processing and accurate timestamping. Best of all, with one GigaStor box you can have up to 8 simultaneous combinations of SPAN sessions, trunked links, and full-duplex connections.

Capture Card Optimised for Analysis

• Monitor up to eight ports with one box for gigabit links
• Monitor up to two ports with on box for 10 GbE links
• Analyse by individual port or in aggregation
• Get the fastest real-time processing available with 64-bit support
• Utilise the largest capture buffers in the industry (124 GB)
• Switch between copper or optical links with SFPs
• Update drivers in the field with a downloadable firmware patch
• Ensure accurate captures with one card (one clock) to timestamp all data

On Site Analysis Reduces Overhead
The GigaStor was designed to manage all data processing and Expert analysis on the box itself. This eliminates the need to transfer heavy files across your network to your local console. Instead, only screen updates are sent, allowing analysis to take seconds rather than hours.

Capture-to-disk at up to 400 MBps (3200 Mbps)
High-performance RAID array permits continuous capture of live traffic at full-duplex gigabit line rate.

Comprehensive VoIP Analysis
Inside every GigaStor is an enterprise-strength VoIP Expert with call detail records, and aggregate VoIP health statistics.

Expert Analysis
The GigaStor performs real-time Expert processing at the probe to identify problems and provide possible solutions. To minimise network overhead, all processing is done on the GigaStor and only screen updates are transferred to the console.

Integration with NetFlow
The GigaStor seamlessly integrates with NetFlow data traversing your network. The GigaStor can act as a NetFlow collector and report on real-time statistics such as Top Talkers, Pairs Matrix, Bandwidth Usage, VLAN Analysis, and Application Awareness.