In some cases, filtering and aggregating network traffic is not enough to efficiently use monitoring and security tools: Network Operators need Advanced Network Packet Brokers capable to deliver advanced features like header stripping, packet slicing, inner parameters filtering and load balancing, at the same time assuring top performances.
Advanced Network Packet Brokers 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.
Advanced Network Packet Brokers 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.
Microtel Innovation Advanced Network Packet Brokers are based on a flexible and powerful architecture, able to grant high flexibility and top performances to our customers. The platform includes a rich feature set, which can be easily customized for specific needs: this is what Telecom Operators need to face today’s 5G monitoring challenges.
It can host 1G, 10G, 25G, 40G, 100G and 400G ports in 1U, while also making available advanced features such as GRE and VXLAN tunnel start/termination, header stripping for several protocols, packet slicing, timestamping, VLAN tagging, load balancing, and filtering based on inner and outer L2–L5 parameters.
For example, it enables filtering of the Inner IP in the GTP protocol, performed entirely in hardware, allowing full-speed deployment of this functionality. This is a very important feature, for instance to balance 5G User Plane traffic across multiple tools, ensuring on one side very high performance (up to 12.8 Tbps traffic capacity) and on the other guaranteeing that all traffic belonging to the same subscriber session is forwarded to the same tool.
Advanced Network Packet Brokers also provide customers with an easy-to-use and intuitive web-based graphical user interface, powerful real-time statistics, and SNMP alarms for simple control of device behavior and input/output port traffic.
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| Product | ASTER A-640 | ASTER A-7400 |
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| Technical data sheet | ASTER A-640 | ASTER A-7400 |
| PERFORMANCES | ||
| Switching Capacity | 6.4 Tb/s | 12.8 Tb/s |
| INPUT/OUTPUT PORTS | ||
| Total number of input/output ports | 32x40/100 Gb/s | 32x10/25/40/100/400 Gb/s |
| Max number of 400 Gb/s ports | 0 | 32 |
| Max number of 100 Gb/s ports | 32 | 128 |
| Max number of 40 Gb/s ports | 32 | 32 |
| Max numbers of 10/25 Gb/s ports | 128 | 128 |
| Max number of 1Gb/s ports | 0 | 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, Timestamping | ||
| SYSTEM SPECIFICATION | ||
| Chassis | 1U | 1U |
| AC Redundant power supply | ||
| DC Redundant power supply | ||
