[j-nsp] Whitebox 10Gb/s capture challenge

[Phil Bedard]

How much traffic is actually on the boxes?  A full 10G or some fraction?  Are they in the same datacenter?  There are muxing boxes from onpath,apcon, anue, net optics, etc.  which might let you get away with less actual capture devices.  Keep in mind some of those solutions are fairly expensive themselves... 

Phil

On Jan 9, 2012,s  at 11:05 AM, "OBrien, Will" <ObrienH at missouri.edu> wrote:

> I'm pondering the idea of trying to build a relatively inexpensive 10Gb capture box.
> The simple solution is a dell R710 with 10Gb nics. I have some, they work, but I'd have to spend $50k to get enough of them.
> 
> So, my challenge is keeping the price point is something around $1000-$1500 - basically the 10Gb version of a 1u gigE capture system.
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> In general, I probably don't need to ever write 10Gb/s to disk, but it would be nice load the dice for success.
> My thoughts are a reasonable performance motherboard with 10Gb PCIe nics or a white box mobo with onboard SFP+ ports.
> 
> Anyone gone this route?
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> Will O'Brien
> University of Missouri, DoIT DNPS
> Network Systems Analyst - Redacted
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> obrienh at missouri.edu
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