Aster A-XFE Streamliner
ADVANCED PACKET BROKER WITH GTP BALANCING AND FILTERING CAPABILITIES
L2-L7 Network Packet Broker;
ASTER A-XFE STREAMLINER AT A GLANCE
PRODUCT DESCRIPTION
Aster A-XFE Streamliner, Microtel Innovation top performing appliance for mobile user & control plane visibility, represents a flexible solution that allows for L2-L7 network packet brokering, GTP session based balancing, filtering, sampling capabilities and Advanced Packet Manipulation functionalities to streamline data traffic to the monitoring tools.
The device is powered by a double Network Processor fabric, supporting up to 20X100Gb/s ports and implements a powerful GTP engine which can manage up to 200Gb/s total traffic and 10 million users
As other Microtel Innovation GTP solutions, Aster A-XFE Streamliner aims to reduce significantly the probe workload by filtering and sampling GTP traffic. Several parameters are configurable as filtering criteria, like i.e. IMSI, APN, IMEI, RAT, ULI, QCI…, granting then a full range of monitoring options to the Operator. The output traffic is load balanced across multiple probes in a coherent way, addressing the whole subscriber sessions to the same tool.
Additionally, Aster A-XFE can execute APM operations like Deduplication, Header Stripping, Source Port Labelling and Packet Slicing.
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TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS
Aster XFE offer high versatility to customers, since the baseline product works as L2-L4 Network Packet Broker (First column below). Anytime the customer might decide to upgrade licence/licences by adding new functionalities if needed. The device stand out for its extreme flexibility to add new features based on real needs.
| Licence Aster A-XFE Streamliner – Base Product | L2-L4 NETWORK PACKET BROKER |
|---|---|
| Switching capacity | 2Tb/s |
| L2-L4 filtering | |
| Traffic Replication | |
| Traffic Aggregation |
| Licence: STL-A-XFE-APM | ADVANCED PACKET MANIPULATION (APM) FUNCTIONALITIES |
|---|---|
| Packet Deduplication | |
| Detunneling/ Header Stripping | |
| Packet Slicing | |
| Source Port Labelling |
| Licence: STL-A-XFE-LA | GTP ADVANCED LOAD ADAPTER |
|---|---|
| GTP CORRELATION | |
| – IMSI based correlation | |
| – TEID based correlation | |
| GTP LOAD BALANCING | |
| – GTP-U and GTP-C belonging to the same subscriber are sent to the same output port | |
| GTP SAMPLING | |
| – Session aware sampling | |
| – Output traffic after sampling | Configurable |
| GTP SESSION AWARE FILTERING | |
| – IMSI White/Black list | |
| – APN White/Black list | |
| – INNER IP (IPV4, IPV6) White/Black list | |
| – IMEI White/Black list | |
| – MSISDN White/Black list | |
| – VoLTE filtering | |
| – GTP-U, GTP-C, GTP-Cv1, GTP-Cv2, GTP-V1, GTP-V2 | |
| – ULI (CGI, SAI, RAI, TAI, ECGI, LAI) | |
| – RAT | |
| – Service network | |
| – QCI |
| Licence: STL_A_XFE_LB | GTP LOAD BALANCER |
|---|---|
| GTP CORRELATION | |
| – IMSI based correlation | |
| – TEID based correlation | |
| GTP LOAD BALANCING | |
| – GTP-U and GTP-C belonging to the same subscriber are sent to the same output port |
