Endace Technology Limited

Endance Technology Limited

William Brier

Stuart Wilson

David William Earl

Stephen Frank Donnelly

Anthony Coddington

Maxwell John Allen

A high speed intelligent network recorder for recording a plurality of flows of network data packets into and out of a computer network over a relevant data time window is disclosed. The high speed intelligent network recorder includes a printed circuit board; a high speed network switching device mounted to the printed circuit board; and an X column by Y row array of a plurality of intelligent hard drives with micro-computers mounted to the printed circuit board and coupled in parallel with the high speed network switching device. A method for network recording is disclosed. In one embodiment, the method includes the following: receiving a plurality of incoming packets, wherein each incoming packet belongs to a conversation flow; forming a capture stream of packet records for the incoming packets; and performing intelligent load balancing on the capture stream of packet records, the load balancing including reading the metadata for each packet record, determining a packet record is part of either a hot flow or a cold flow, selecting a destination node for each packet record based on the flow hash, and steering the packet record to one of a plurality of encapsulation buffers based on the destination node, wherein a cold flow tends to be maintained in a flow coherency at a node. The method may further include operations that include querying and back-testing in order to enable distributed analytics by using low cost, low band width nodes.

Methods for intelligent load balancing and high speed intelligent network recorders

A high speed intelligent network recorder for recording a plurality of flows of network data packets into and out of a computer network over a relevant data time window is disclosed. The high speed intelligent network recorder includes a printed circuit board; a high speed network switching device mounted to the printed circuit board; and an X column by Y row array of a plurality of intelligent hard drives with micro-computers mounted to the printed circuit board and coupled in parallel with the high speed network switching device.

High speed intelligent network recording systems

Intelligent load balancing and high speed intelligent network recorders

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Hamilton, New Zealand

William Brier