Aster A-XFE Streamliner
Advanced Packet Broker with GTP Balancer and Filtering capabilities
Aster A-XFE is Microtel Innovation top performing appliance for mobile user & control plane Advanced Packet Brokering, powered by a double Network Processor fabric, supporting up to 20X100Gb/s ports.
Combined with the powerful Streamliner Suite applications, A-XFE works as a powerfull L2-L7 Advanced Packet Broker with GTP balancing and filtering functionalities, also providing Advanced Packet Manipulation capabilities.
Product Description
Implement the visibility you need
Aster A-XFE Streamliner represents a flexible solution which allows for L2-L7 filtering, GTP Load Balancer and Advanced Packet Manipulation functionalities, like Deduplication and Packet Slicing.
The device consists in a powerful appliance, with 20X100Gb/s input/output ports, which can hosts the Streamliner Suite Applications. All Applications can work together in the same platform: by simply adding a software licence, the additional functionalities are ready to go in the Aster A-XFE.
Following Streamliner Applications are available:
- L2-L4 Network Packet Broker, with 20X100Gb/s interface, each one to be used as 100Gb, 40Gb/s or 4X10Gb/s ports, any mixed configuration is possible,
- GTP Advanced Load Adapter, implementing powerful session based L5-L7 GTP traffic filtering and sampling, with the goal to significantly reduce the probe workload. Several parameters can be used as filtering criteria, between them IMSI, APN, IMEI, RAT, ULI, QCI,
- Advanced Packet Manipulation (APM), which can smartly reduce the traffic towards the monitoring tools: Deduplication, Header Stripping, Source Port Labeling and Packet Slicing,
- GTP Load Balancer, capable to balance the GTP traffic load across multiple probes in a coherent way, i.e. granting that the whole subscriber session is sent to the same tool.
L2-L4 Network Packet BrokerGTP Advanced Load AdapterAdvanced Packet Manipulation (APM)GTP Load Balancer
Powerful L2-L4 Network Packer Broker
Key features:
- 20x100Gb/s input/output cages,each one to be used as 1x100Gb/s, 1x40Gb/s or 4x10Gb/s,
- 2 Tb/s Switching Capacity,
- Filtering based on a variety of L2, L3, L4 header,
- Selective aggregation: Any to Any, Many to One, One to Many,
- Traffic replication,
- Load Balancing.
GTP Load Adapter with sampling capabilities
Aster A-XFE can be combined with the Streamliner GTP Advanced Load Adapter Application, in this way implementing a powerful GTP session aware L5-L7 filtering engine, which can also provide sampling capabilities, with the goal to significantly reduce the probe workload.
It performs stateful correlation of GTP-C with GTP-U messages; it can manage 200Gb/s data throughput and up to 10 Million users, to support future traffic growth driven by 5G and OTT applications.
Key features:
- 20x100Gb/s input/output cages, each one to be used as 1x100Gb/s, 1x40Gb/s or 4x10Gb/s,
- Perform stateful correlation, load balancing, session aware filtering and sampling of GTP traffic,
- Session based filtering is possible on several parameters, which may be combined at the same time:
- White and Black lists are possible for IMSI, APN, Inner IP, IMEI, MSISDN
- Other parameters which can be used for filtering: GTP, GTP-C, GTP-U, VoLTE, ULI, RAT, Serving Network, QCI
- Session based traffic sampling, which keeps the integrity of the data flows intact, by forwarding all the flows associated with the sampled subscriber to the appropriate monitoring and analytic tools.
Smartly reduce traffic towards monitoring tools
Key features:
- Packet deduplication:
- Enable/Disable De-Duplication function “per” Input port,
- Protocol can be selected: IP, VN-TAG, VLAN, MPLS, VxLAN, GRE, GTP-U, GTP-C,
- Field selectable: Frame length, FCS, MAC Src/Dst, IP Src/Dst, Ether type, IP Id, IP Protocol/Next Header, Total Length/Payload length,
- Detunnelling/Header Stripping
- Available for the following protocols: VN-TAG, VLAN, MPLS, VxLAN, GRE, GTP-U, GTP-C,
- Packet slicing
- Available for the following protocols: IP, VN-TAG, VLAN, MPLS, VxLAN, GRE, GTP-U,
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Start point is configurable,
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Ethernet frame CRC recalculated,
- Source port Labeling
- Using VLAN tag, available for the following protocols: IP, VN-TAG, VLAN, MPLS, VxLAN, GRE, GTP-U.
GTP Load Balancer up to 10 Million users
It performs stateful correlation and load balancing of GTP-C with GTP-U messages, based both on the subscriber ID (IMSI) and the related tunnel ID (TEID), so enabling coherent distribution of 2G, 3G, 4G and 5G mobile traffic load across multiple instances of the monitoring tools.
Key features:
- 20x100Gb/s input/output cages, each one to be used as 1x100Gb/s, 1x40Gb/s or 4x10Gb/s,
- Manage 200Gb/s total traffic and 10 million users,
- Perform stateful correlation and load balancing of GTP-C with, GTP-U messages, based both on the subscriber ID (IMSI) and the related tunnel ID (TEID),
- All GTP-C/GTP-U packets correlated to the same IMSI are dispatched to the same destination Output Port,
- Load Balancing packets distribution takes into account the port speed capability (10/40/100Gb/s).
Technical Features
| MODEL | INPUT/OUTPUT PORTS | INTERFACES | DATASHEET | ORDERING GUIDE | SOLUTION BRIEF |
| A-XFE Streamliner | Up to 20 | 10-40-100Gb/s |
| Model | INPUT/OUTPUT PORTS | INTERFACES | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A-XFE Streamliner | Up to 20 | 10-40-100Gb/s |
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