iTap GigaBit Dual Port Aggregator

The NIC receives 800 Mbps (80% utilization), so no memory is required for the monitoring device's NIC to process all full-duplex traffic.

If there is burst of traffic on Side A of 900 Mbps and Side B remains at 500 Mbps, the aggregated traffic equals 1400 Mbps, 400 Mbps over the capacity of the NIC. The excess traffic is put in memory on a first-in-first-out basis until either the buf- fer is full or the burst passes.

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The extra 400 Mbps of traffic is stored in buffer memory. Memory continues to fill until capacity is reached, or the burst ends.

Figure 2: Side A plus Side B becomes greater than 100% of the NIC’s receive capacity

After the burst has passed and the buffers have passed all the stored traffic, each monitoring device resumes receiving traffic directly from the link.

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Utilization statistics and alarms are monitored before buffering and aggregation.

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96547iTP, 96542iTP specifications

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