Finisar Surveyor Protocols Supported, Finisar Analyzer Devices, Finisar Device Description

Surveyor

User’s Guide

Analyzer Devices

The full power of Surveyor is realized through optional hardware analyzer cards available from Finisar. Analyzer cards from Finisar are installed in a PC, a notebook PC, or in a separate analyzer device. The table below provides a brief summary of the Finisar analyzer devices used by Surveyor:

	Table 1-3. Finisar Analyzer Devices
Finisar Device	Description
THGm (Ten/Hundred/	PCI-bus hardware card that installs in a PC for analyzing 10/100 Ethernet
Gigabit module)	or Gigabit Ethernet networks.
THGs	Analyzer device accessed remotely by Surveyor. THGs contains two syn-
	chronized THGm modules for analysis of full-duplex 10, 100, or Gigabit
	Ethernet traffic at full-line rate.
THGsE	Analyzer device accessed remotely by Surveyor. THGsE contains two syn-
	chronized THGm modules for analysis of full-duplex 10, 100, or Gigabit
	Ethernet traffic at full-line rate. THGsE also contains a 80MB hard disk for
	capture to disk.
THGp	Portable analyzer/PC device running Surveyor and other analyzer soft-
	ware. THGp contains one or more THGm modules for analysis of 10, 100,
	or Gigabit Ethernet traffic at full-line rate.
THGnotebook	Portable undercarriage unit with one or two THGm analyzer cards
	designed to operate with a high-performance notebook computer. Connec-
	tion to the notebook PC is via PCI bus expansion. Full line rate THGm ana-
	lyzer cards are made available from a notebook PC.
Portable Surveyor 10/	CardBus analyzer/adapter card that installs in a notebook PC for analyzing
100 Ethernet Ana-	10/100 Ethernet networks.
lyzer Card

See Chapter 5 for more detailed information on how Surveyor uses analyzer devices.

Protocols Supported

Table 1-4 on the following page lists the network and application protocols that Surveyor can decode. For a listing of protocol specifications and information, refer to Appendix C.

Note that Finisar continually adds to the list of protocols it can decode. If you do not see a protocol on this list that you need, visit the Finisar web site, www.Finisar.com, or check with Customer Support for new additions.

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