Riverbed Cascade Shark

Riverbed Cascade SharkRiverbed Cascade Shark (formerly known as CACE Shark) is a continuous packet capture and indexing appliance providing:

  • High-performance, multi-gigabit per second, packet analysis & traffic recording without packet drops
  • Retrospective analysis & drill-down in multi-terabyte network data recordings
  • Extended-duration network trending & alerting
  • Support for both 1Gbps and 10Gbps networks

Cascade Shark seamlessly integrates with Riverbed Cascade Pilot supporting an intuitive drag-and-drop multi-level drill down for local and remote analysis and troubleshooting. Cascade Pilot is capable of accessing and controlling one or more remote Cascade Shark appliances.

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Cascade Shark includes the only network analysis software fully integrated with Wireshark, the world’s most popular network protocol analyser. Cascade Shark supports packet filtering based on Wireshark BPF and Wireshark Display filters.

Cascade Shark supports a wide variety of network protocols and traffic analysis metrics (Views) for monitoring, reporting, and troubleshooting. Views can be applied to live traffic on Cascade Shark’s local network interfaces or to off-line network traces stored in Cascade Shark’s storage system.

Typical Views include:

  • LAN and Network troubleshooting (MAC, VLAN, ARP, ICMP, DHCP, DNS)
  • Bandwidth usage (including micro-bursts, IP, TCP, WEB, VoIP)
  • Talkers and conversations (IP, subnets, countries, TCP, WEB, VoIP)
  • Performance and errors (IP, TCP, Web, VoIP)
  • User activity (Web, VoIP)