OREANDA-NEWS. April 03, 2015. Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd. today announced the development of software that monitors transmission packets and analyzes quality in real time at a world-record speed of 200 Gbps.

With the advance of cloud services, brought on by the spread of smartphones and tablets and the expanded use of datacenters, it is increasingly important to have a firm grasp of service quality to ensure the overall operational stability of systems. Until now, however, when monitoring communications packets with commodity hardware, it was difficult to analyze service quality at high speeds because of limits in the performance of CPUs and memory access.

Now Fujitsu has developed software that runs on a single piece of commodity hardware to monitor communications packets and analyze network and application quality in real time at speeds of 200 Gbps, a ten-fold improvement in performance. This was accomplished by technology that reduces computational load when collecting packets, technology that eliminates the need for memory copying and mutual exclusion, and parallel processing technology that prevents contention when using multiple cores.

Together, these technologies make it possible to provide network infrastructure that supports the stable use of services without requiring expensive, specialized equipment, allowing for lower costs.