Xgig® Protocol Analyzer Family Overview
Finisar's Xgig® is a powerful protocol analysis tool for Fibre Channel, Gigabit Ethernet and SAS/SATA links operating at different data rates. The versatile features of Xgig® accelerate development and SAN deployment. The protocol analyzer tool captures details about high-speed traffic and quickly analyzes individual protocols. Xgig Expert software provides a robust set of debugging and analysis tools for analyzing traces.
The Xgig employs universal chassis and blade hardware architecture. By inserting various blades, Xgig
® becomes a multi-protocol, multi-function, and multi-speed tool. Currently available applications are the protocol analyzer, traffic generation, and BERT, all available with no hardware changes.
The suite of applications includes TraceControl, TraceView, PerformanceMonitor, and Expert:
- TraceControl captures traces with standard and customized trigger sets. Xgig has the most extensive trigger library in the market, and is able to capture and characterize the most difficult problems.
- TraceView is a decoding program that enables the user to view traces in detail, providing thorough DWORD interpretation and SAN topology as well as a traffic histogram.
- PerformanceMonitor provides real-time traffic status. PerformanceMonitor views provide quick snapshots of the current running state of the links being analyzed, as well as total statistics over time.
- Expert provides a unique and robust set of error detection and analysis capabilities. Expert automatically sorts through millions of events to identify performance, upper-layer protocol, and logical and physical layer issues.
Product Features and Benefits
- Multi-Protocol Support
- 1, 2, 4, and 10 Gb/s Fibre Channel
- 1 Gb/s and 10 Gb/s Ethernet
- 1.5, 3.0, and 6.0 Gb/s SAS/SATA
- Multiple connection interface option
- SFP for Fibre Channel and Ethernet
- SFP compatible SATA connector for SAS/SATA
- SAS connector (4x Infiniband type) for SAS/SATA
- Flexible Licensing Model
- Easy-to-Read, User Definable GUI with Unified View
- Supports up to 32 Concurrent Users
- "Expert" Software Reduces Troubleshooting Time From Hours to Minutes
Scalable Configuration Options
- 1, 2, or 4 Slot Xgig System Chassis
- 2 Port or 4 SFP Port Analyzer Blade Options
- Wide-blade wide-port SAS/SATA blade Option
- Multi-function blades provide a Jammer, BERT and Analyzer all in one
- Time-sync up to 4 Chassis
- 2, 4GB memory buffer size per analysis channel option
Xgig Analyzer Blade List
- 1, 2, 4, 10 Gb/s Fibre Channel Analyzer
- 1.0, 10 Gb/s Ethernet Analyzer
- 1.5, 3.0 Gb/s SAS/SATA Analyzer
- SFP SATA Connector Blade
- Wide-port SAS Connector Blade
- 1, 2, 4, 10 Gb/s Fibre Channel and GbE Multi-protocol Analyzer
Case Study: Qlogic uses Finisar Analyzers to test and troubleshoot iSCSI SANs
Trial Software: Xgig Analyzer Trace Viewer 4.0.1
Xgig Product Family Brochure
Data Sheet: Xgig Expert Analysis
Data Sheet: SAS/SATA SFP Latching Adaptor Module
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