• Zero packet loss for packet size 64 – 10,000 bytes

• Sustained traffic up to 100 Gbps (PCIe3 ×16 packet bandwidth)

• Line rate 4 x 25 Gbps traffic burst, 680 milliseconds buffering

• Multi-port packet merge, sequenced in time stamp order

• L2, L3 and L4 protocol classification

• GTP, IP-in-IP, GRE, NVGRE, VxLAN, Pseudowire, Fabric Path, VNtag tunneling support

• Custom flow definitions based on 2-, 3-, 4-, 5- or 6-tuple

• Flow match/actions: Forward to application or network port or drop packet

• Stateful flow management

• 50 million bidirectional IPv4 or IPv6 flows

• Learning rate: 2 million flows/sec

• TCP flow termination, flow timeout, or application-requested

• Flow records with Rx packet/byte counters and TCP flags

• Stateless flow management

• Up to 36,000 IPv4 or up to 7,500 IPv6 2-tuple flows

• Custom hash keys, symmetric hash key option

• CPU load distribution based on hash key or filter or per flow

• 128 Rx queues, 16 MB – 1 TB Rx buffer size

• Packet descriptors with metadata

• IP fragment handling

• Deduplication

• Slicing at dynamic offset or fixed offset from start or end of packet

• Extended RMON1 and counters per filter and per queue

Tx Packet Processing

• Line rate Tx up to 100 Gbps for packet size 64 – 10,000 bytes

• Replay as captured with nanoseconds precision

• Per-port traffic shaping

• Port-to-port forwarding

• 128 Tx queues, 4 MB Tx buffer size

Time Stamping and Synchronization

• Rx time stamp and Tx time stamp inject

• OS time, PPS and IEEE 1588-2008 PTP V2 synchronization

• Synchronization between SmartNICs

• Time stamp formats: Unix 10 ns, Unix 1 ns, PCAP 1 us, PCAP 1 ns

Network standards

• IEEE 802.3 1G, 10G and 25G Ethernet

Supported pluggable modules

• 1000BASE-T, SX, LX, ZX

• 10GBASE-SR, CR, LR, ER

• 25GBASE-SR, LR, LR-BiDi

Software

• Operating systems: Linux and Windows

• libpcap, WinPcap and DPDK

• Napatech NTAPI for highest performance and advanced features

• SDK tools included in source code for debugging and prototyping and as application examples

Hardware

• Xilinx XCVU5P FPGA

• 8 GB DDR4 SDRAM

• PCIe Gen3 16 lanes @ 8 GT/s

• 4 × SFP28 network ports

• RJ45-F 100/1000BASE-T IEEE1588 PTP

• SMA-F PPS input/output

• 2 × internal MCX-F PPS and NT-TS time sync

• Stratum-3E-compliant TCXO

• Flash memory with support for two boot images

• Built-in thermal protection

• Physical dimensions: ½-length and full-height PCIe

• Weight excluding pluggable modules:

• NT100A01-SCC: 355 g

• NT100A01-NEBS: 350 g

• MTBF according to UTE C 80-810:

• NT100A01-SCC: 317,821 hours

• NT100A01-NEBS: 398,565 hours

• Power consumption including 100GBASE-SR4 modules and typical traffic load:

• NT100A01-SCC: 44 Watts

• NT100A01-NEBS: 44 Watts

Environment for NT100A01-SCC

• Operating temperature: 0 °C to 45 °C (32 °F to 113 °F)

• Operating humidity: 20% to 80%

Environment for NT100A01-NEBS

• Operating temperature: –5 °C to 55 °C (23 °F to 131 °F) measured around the SmartNIC

• Operating humidity: 5% to 85%

• Altitude: < 1,800 m

• Airflow: >= 2.5 m/s

Regulatory Approvals and Compliances

• PCI-SIG®, NEBS level 3, CE, CB, RoHS, REACH, cURus (UL), FCC, ICES, VCCI, RCM

Product:

Data Rates included:

NT100A01-4×25/10/4×10/1

4 × 10/25 Gbps and 4 × 1/10 Gbps

NT100A01-4×10/1

4 × 1/10 Gbps