General Information - ProfiTap PROFISHARK 1G User Manual

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The PROFISHARK is a handheld, Plug and Play device dedicated to inline
gigabit monitoring. It facilitates in-field traffic capture and troubleshooting. The
PROFISHARK is equivalent to a 10/100/1G aggregator TAP and a 2 Gbit/s
NIC. All-in-one in a pocket-sized box, the only additional hardware required
being a laptop with a free USB 3.0 port.
As it is based on USB 3.0 (5 Gbit/s), the PROFISHARK manages full-duplex
gigabit at wire speed, without the bottleneck of an aggregator TAP. It also
surpasses all standard NICs in capture mode, as the PROFISHARK catches
any tag and encapsulation without altering frames.
The PROFISHARK is the perfect tool for the field engineer as well as for long-
term traffic collection.
Features
- 10/100/1G monitoring on USB 3.0
- USB 3.0 powered
- Failure safe monitoring
- Hardware aggregation
- 8 ns hardware timestamp
- Real time statistics
- Low level error and bandwidth monitoring
- CRC error capture
- Capture any packet with any analyzer
- Direct capture to disk