This white paper reviews how ProfiShark hardware supports accurate, lossless, long-term packet capture for troubleshooting, performance analysis, and security investigations. Standard network cards and software-based capture tools may drop small frames at moderate traffic rates and provide inconsistent timestamps because processing depends on the operating system and CPU. ProfiShark uses dedicated hardware, memory, and FPGA processing to capture full-duplex traffic without sampling while producing precise hardware timestamps. Its USB 3.0 interface simplifies deployment, supplies power, and supports direct capture to disk. The paper provides installation and configuration guidance, explains inline and aggregation modes, and discusses timestamp, CRC, filtering, and storage options. It also d

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