Packet Flow Switch

ONPATH Partner Product: Packet Flow Switch

The Packet Flow Switch (PFS), is the industry’s lowest latency aggregation, filtering, and monitoring switch to monitor, automate, and secure network infrastructure.

The platform is manufactured by Simena and integrated, sold, and supported by ONPATH Technologies, as part of the Universal Connectivity System portfolio of solutions. The Packet Flow Switch helps network managers conserve time, increase utilization, and save money compared to manual TAPs or complex SPAN architectures to gain complete visibility of network data.

Employing Layer 2-4 technology, the Packet Flow Switch aggregates, filters, disseminates, and load-balances network traffic to monitoring, measurement and security tools, optimizing their performance and investment. The PFS reduces cost by enabling network managers to centralize operations, monitor services, and enhance security. The intuitive web-based user interface makes it easy to create clusters (stacks) and manage multiple units within the same window.

Packet filtering allows users to pick and choose specific packets to be forwarded. Slicing allows users to forward only the configurable portion of packets to maximize the performance of attached monitoring systems. Port tagging marks packets with the ID of thereceiving or inbound port.

Based on these enhanced capabilities, the Packet Flow Switch is the most advanced aggregation, filtering, and monitoring switch on the market, providing greater efficiency when it comes to managing and securing networks.

APPLICATIONS

The Packet Flow Switch platform solves connectivity and monitoring challenges for a variety of high-performance applications:

• Cloud network infrastructure
• Network monitoring and provisioning
• Test automation
• Cyber Security

Fast

The Packet Flow Switch is the industry’s first platform of aggregation and monitoring switches based on L2-4 hardware. The full wire speed performance for 1GE, 10GE and 40GE ports also offers the industry’s lowest latency down to 300nsec. The PFS is capable of providing virtually unlimited possibilities of any-to-any connectivity for port aggregation, filtering, and distribution of traffic. The platform also facilitates remote management of device connections through a number of management options – from any location anywhere in the world.

Agile

The PFS 1524 supports up to 24 ports of any combination of 1GE or 10GE traffic. The PFS runs a Linux-based control plane which has several management options including an intuitive web-based Graphical User Interface (GUI), HTTP, HTTPS, SSH, Telnet, CLI, API, RS232D, USB and TACACS+. The Web based GUI provides clustering functionality for centralized management, as well as extensive alerting mechanisms via Syslog, SMTP, LiveLog, TACACS+ and SNMP traps.

Aware

The Packet Flow Switch is truly traffic aware above the physical connectivity layer. The PFS allows devices, such as monitoring and security
tools, to be physically connected to the switch and then be shared over a network without using SPAN ports. Since the PFS processes
packets, the layer 2-4 filters can be defined on ingress and egress as rules, with logical “AND/OR” operators. PFS users can be connected
directly to network TAPS or provides the capability of connecting production systems directly to the PFS, enabling connectivity as well as
the ability to duplicate, aggregate, and multicast packets from these systems. The advanced multi-core processor adds the ability for deep
packet inspection (DPI), packet de-duplication, and microburst detection at wire speed.

Any-to-any connectivity through PFS

• Moves, adds or changes
• Planning or troubleshooting
• Record keeping

• Capital expenses
• Operating expenses
• Power, space, and cooling

• Data center equipment
• Test and monitoring tools
• Personnel productivity