L2-L5 Advanced Network Packet Brokers

What do you need?

Send the right data to the right tools efficiently

In some cases, filtering and aggregating network traffic is not enough to efficiently use monitoring and security tools: Network Operators need NPBs capable to deliver advanced features like header stripping, packet slicing, inner parameters filtering and load balancing, on the same time assuring top performances.

NPBs must be capable of managing the relentless growth in network traffic, the multiplication and constant evolution of monitoring and security appliances, and also the increasing complexity brought by virtualization technologies. Modern Telecommunication networks, like CUPS (Control and User Plane Separation) and 5G, have very complex architecture and are resource-intensive, and introduce the concept of the disaggregation and physical separation of the control and user planes in network topology. 

NPBs must be able to address these challenges by providing a more efficient and intelligent way to manage data forwarding to the monitoring tools, implementing intelligent functionalities like header stripping, packet slicing, inner parameters filtering and load balancing, while granting top performances.

How Microtel Innovation can help

Microtel Innovation L2-L5 Advanced Network Packet Brokers

Microtel Innovation A-640 new Network Packet Broker is based on a flexible and powerful architechture, able to grant high flexibility and top performances to our customers. The platform includes a rich feature set, which can be easily customized on specific needs: this is what Telecom Operators need to face today 5G monitoring challenges.

It can host 1G, 10G, 25G, 40G and 100G ports in 1U, moreover making available advanced features like GRE and VXLAN tunnel start/termination, header stripping for several protocols, packet slicing, VLAN tagging, load balancing and filtering based on inner and outer L2-L5 parameters.

For example, it makes possible to filter the Inner IP in GTP protocol, and they do it in hardware, so deploying such functionality full speed. This is a very important feature, to be used for example to balance 5G User Plane traffic to several tools, on one side making possible very high performances (up to 3.2 TB traffic) and on the other granting that all traffic belonging to the same subscriber session is forwarded to the same tool. 

A-640 makes available to the customer an easy to use and intuitive web based Graphical User Interface, powerful real time statistics and SNMP alarms for easy control of the device behaviour and input/output ports data traffic.

Here is the right product for your needs

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Product ASTER A-640
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Technical data sheet ASTER A-640
PERFORMANCES
Switching Capacity 6.4 Tb/s
INPUT/OUTPUT PORTS
Total number of input/output ports 32x40/100 Gb/s
Max number of 40/100 Gb/s ports 32
Max numbers of 10/25 Gb/s ports 128
Max number of 1Gb/s ports 0
NPB functionalities
Filtering and Load Balancing, using inner and outer parameters
Traffic replication and aggregation
L2GRE, L3GRE, VXLAN tunnel Start/Termination
Advanced Capabilities
Slicing, Header Stripping, tagging
SYSTEM SPECIFICATION
Chassis 1U
AC Redundant power supply
DC Redundant power supply
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