Lumacron Technology Athena

Lumacron Technology says its Athena portable network recorder is the fastest available. It facilitates sustained and lossless traffic capture at 100 Gbps with real-time, full-duplex, cycle accurate traffic playback and 1-ns timestamping. The system comes with up to 160-Gbps internal disk bandwidth in the form of removable, hot-swappable solid-state disk arrays.

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Lumacron Technology says its Athena portable network recorder is the fastest available. It facilitates sustained and lossless traffic capture at 100 Gbps with real-time, full-duplex, cycle accurate traffic playback and 1-ns timestamping. The system comes with up to 160-Gbps internal disk bandwidth in the form of removable, hot-swappable solid-state disk arrays. Athena enables unparalleled network visibility for SIGINT, data analytics, network test, and performance monitoring applications, the company asserts.

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