wkld char. on OC48 backbone link: hardware


DAG - PCI network monitoring cards:

project at University of Waikato (New Zealand) computer science department
http://dag.cs.waikato.ac.nz/

DAG4 card - ATM and PoS capture at OC48c 
2.5 GBit/sec link rate
exceeds PCI bus bandwidth, requires filtering & compression
provides highly accurate timestamping
timestamp sync across boards available via cable and GPS

CAIDA/U.Waikato collaboration (subcontract)