Xgig® Fibre Channel, SAS, SATA, Gigabit Ethernet, iSCSI Analyzer Suite

The Finisar Xgig® Family of Distributed Systems for Monitoring, Analysis, and Testing are multi-purpose systems.

Xgig is designed to help you meet the biggest challenges and accelerate your development with today’s high speed serial storage area networks and subsystems.

Xgig's integrated hardware and software solution allows users to define analysis for a specific environment, providing detailed feedback on errors and problem events.

Xgig's blade-based hardware allows for multi-function testing and analysis all in one. With licensing in place, users can easily switch blade function from an Analyzer to a BERT to a Jammer and back.

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.

For the enterprise, Xgig works best with Finisar's NetWisdom.



The suite of applications includes TraceControl, TraceView, PerformanceMonitor, and Expert:

Product Features and Benefits

Multi-Protocol Support: 1, 2, 4, 8 and 10 Gbps Fibre Channel, 1 Gig and 10 Gig Ethernet and SAS/SATA
Flexible Licensing Model
Easy-to-Read, User Definable GUI with Unified View
Supports up to 32 Concurrent Users
The Industry's Most Efficient "Expert" Software Reduces Troubleshooting Time From Hours to Minutes

Scalable Configuration Options

1, 2 or 4 Slot System Chassis
2 Port or 4 Port Analyzer Blade Options
Multi-function blades provide a Jammer, BERT and Analyzer all in one. Connect up to 4 Chassis Together

Works with NetWisdom, Finisar's SAN performance monitoring tool

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, 8 and 10 Gb/s Fibre Channel
1 Gb/s and 10 Gb/s Ethernet
1.5 Gb/s, 3.0 and 6Gb/s SAS/SATA Analysis

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

Works with NetWisdom, Finisar's SAN performance monitoring tool

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



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Downloads

Xgig Family Brochure

Xgig SAS/SATA Data Sheet

Expert Data Sheet

Case Study:
Qlogic uses Finisar Analyzers to test and troubleshoot iSCSI SANs

Whitepaper: Easy Troubleshooting with Xgig Expert

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Training
Fibre Channel, iSCSI & FCIP Training Classes for SAN technologies provided by Finisar's Medusa Labs