en.Wedoany.com Reported - GL Communications Inc. has introduced a bidirectional 400G packet capture and extraction solution for high-speed networks, based on its FastRecorder™ and PacketExtractor™ platforms, designed for continuous packet recording, intelligent traffic filtering, real-time monitoring, packet extraction, and offline traffic analysis on high-speed Ethernet and IP networks.
As artificial intelligence infrastructure, hyperscale data centers, cloud environments, and telecom backbone networks increasingly adopt 400G Ethernet technology, maintaining continuous packet visibility on high-speed bidirectional links has become critical for performance monitoring, troubleshooting, network security investigations, and regulatory compliance. Capturing traffic at these speeds without packet loss while maintaining the ability to isolate relevant sessions poses significant operational challenges for network engineers. To help engineers address these challenges, GL Communications offers this high-performance bidirectional 400G packet capture and extraction solution.
GL's FastRecorder™ supports continuous full-duplex packet capture at up to 2 × 400 Gbps, along with event-triggered recording, nanosecond timestamping, and hardware-assisted filtering. Based on high-performance SmartNIC acceleration and an optimized NVMe storage architecture, the platform enables continuous recording from days to months, supporting recording rates of up to 6 TB per minute. Additionally, the platform supports continuous and event-triggered recording, circular recording modes, synchronized multi-port traffic aggregation, and nanosecond-precision timestamps. Advanced hardware-assisted filtering supports selective packet capture based on MAC, VLAN, IPv4/IPv6, tunnel traffic, TCP, and UDP parameters, enabling engineers to effectively focus on traffic of interest while optimizing storage utilization.
A browser-based monitoring interface provides real-time visibility into capture rates, recording throughput, link utilization, frame statistics, packet loss, and port-level performance metrics. Integrated rate and error charts allow engineers to quickly identify traffic anomalies, congestion events, packet loss conditions, and other network faults during active recording operations. The Linux-based platform further supports centralized remote management, multi-user access, multi-server connectivity, and REST API automation, enabling scalable deployment in enterprise and service provider environments.
PacketExtractor™ processes previously recorded traffic and rapidly extracts specific packets, sessions, or protocol flows into PCAP and PCAPNG formats for detailed offline analysis. Time-based filtering, protocol filtering, session-based extraction, packet count limits, and file size constraints simplify forensic investigations and troubleshooting workflows by isolating relevant traffic from large recorded datasets. Extracted traces can be further analyzed using PacketScan™ or Wireshark® for advanced protocol analysis and diagnostics.
Vikram Kulkarni, Sales Director at GL Communications, stated that this 400G packet capture solution records, monitors, filters, and analyzes network traffic at full line rate without packet loss, serving as a versatile tactical recording device for various civilian and defense-related use cases.
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