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ProfiShark Network TAPs

Complete visibility of your entire network anytime, anywhere

Reliable Traffic Capture in a Portable Package


ProfiSharks are portable traffic capture devices that provide quick packet-level insight anywhere they are deployed. With capture regardless of packet rate and high quality hardware timestamping, ProfiShark delivers high fidelity capture files, forming an ideal starting point for troubleshooting or network forensics. Designed for easy, non-intrusive traffic capture, ProfiShark offers a valuable improvement over less performant options, such as SPAN ports on a switch or direct capture on a laptop. They give reliable insight into the network, ensuring the quality of analysis, and optimizing workflow, without dropping any packets.

Connected via USB to a host PC or laptop, in-line or out-of-band traffic can be forwarded directly to packet analyzer software, like Wireshark, or stored to disk. To ensure optimum network protection, the monitored network is physically separated from the management interface. The capture control and hardware settings can be managed via the included ProfiShark Manager application.

ProfiShark Network TAPs Illustration

QUICKLY GET PACKET-LEVEL INSIGHT

ProfiShark enables complete data capture in a portable form factor. This means you can deploy rapidly anywhere, and capture the traffic data you need, with no performance impact on your production network.

GET TRACE FILES YOU CAN RELY ON

To help optimize your analysis workflow and consume less disk storage, ProfiShark offers packet slicing capabilities, making sure you only get actionable data.

GET TRANSPARENT AND NON-INTRUSIVE ACCESS

Capture network data without impacting security or performance. The ProfiShark and host PC will not show up as a node on the network. Network connection is maintained, even when power to the ProfiShark is disconnected. ProfiShark is set up to passthrough PoE.

GET THE TIMESTAMP ACCURACY YOU NEED

Accurate timestamping is essential for the analysis of performance metrics like TCP flow throughput, delay, and jitter. ProfiShark offers models with down to 5ns hardware timestamping, and advanced GPS/PPS timestamping features on the + models.

ProfiShark Series

STRAIGHTFORWARD SETUP AND MANAGEMENT

Place ProfiShark in the line of the packets you want to analyze and use the ProfiShark Manager GUI to control hardware and packet capture settings.

CAPTURE HIGH FIDELITY NETWORK TRAFFIC

Capture all bytes, with high accuracy timestamping, regardless of packet rate.

MULTIPLE TRAFFIC CAPTURE OPTIONS AVAILABLE

Direct capture to disk without the need for external software, live capture with Wireshark or other packet analyzer, or long-term traffic capture on a NAS.

WIDE OS SUPPORT

ProfiShark is supported on the main OS choices on the market today: Linux, Windows, and macOS.

ProfiShark 1G with ProfiSight

DEPLOY IN-LINE OR OUT-OF-BAND

All ProfiShark models can be configured in either in-line mode, or out-of-band, monitoring traffic from SPAN/mirror ports or external TAPs.

COMPATIBLE WITH MANY PROTOCOL ANALYZERS

ProfiShark is often used in combination with Wireshark for protocol analysis, and can also be combined with any other traffic analyzer.

PHYSICAL ISOLATION

The monitored network is physically isolated from the management interface, to avoid any risk of injection or MITM attack through the device.

FLEXIBLE POWERING OPTIONS

ProfiShark can be powered from a USB 3.0 port, or a 5 VDC input.

ProfiShark 1G Dimensions

ProfiShark 100M

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Profishark 100M

ProfiShark 1G

Advanced Gigabit Network TAP

Profishark 1G

ProfiShark 1G+

Gigabit Network TAP with Advanced Timestamping

Profishark 1G+

ProfiShark 10G

1G/10G Copper and Fiber Network Troubleshooting Solution

Profishark 10G

ProfiShark 10G+

1G/10G Copper and Fiber TAP with Advanced Timestamping

Profishark 10G+

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