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Low Latency
Wire Speed
Web GUI
Clustering
Packet Slicing
Port Tagging
Internal Tap
Packet Flow Switch
PFS1524
Network Emulator
Traffic Generator
Network Taps
SDK/API
Product Briefs
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Packet Flow Switch
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With many 10GE/1GE wire speed ports, Packet Flow Switch (PFS), acting as a aggregation and filtering switch, allows users to collect packets from many sources and send them to various devices.
Through it's web based user interface, it is very easy to create any-to-many, many-to-many and many-to-any connections. For example, as a traffic aggregation tool, the Packet Flow Switch can be used to collect packets from sources such as routers, switches, and load balancers. These packets can then be sent to various traffic analyzers, loggers or monitoring systems. |
Packet Flow Switch PFS1524 Product Brief
Applications
- Load balancing heavy traffic to multiple monitoring tools
- Sharing expensive network tools among many SPAN ports and TAPs
- Multicasting critical traffic to multiple security devices
- Bridging traffic between expensive 10G and multiple 1G ports
- Packet filtering and packet slicing to reduce the chatty SPAN/TAP traffic
- Dynamically creating aggregating and regenerating TAPs with media and speed conversion
Features
- Industry's lowest fixed latency, fractions of a microsecond
- 10GE full-duplex wire speed
- Dynamic input/output permit/deny packet filtering up to 128 bytes
- Packet slicing
- Tagging packet with port numbers
- Modifying or removing VLAN IDs
- Redundant load balancing traffic to multiple destinations
- Media and speed conversion
- Setting ports as input only
- Creating internal taps
- Creating loopbacks
- Central management of multiple units
- Clustering (stacking) multiple units
- All ports can be used for any function
- Cut-thru forwarding
- Data plane is a programmable switch, not FPGA or ASIC
- Control plane is Linux for expendable management
- Redundant power supplies
- Syslog, SNMP, TACACS+, NTP, DNS support
- Generating alerts on packet drops due to oversubscription, port status changes, utilization, login/logout etc.
- Real time detailed port statistics
- Multi user support
- Labeling ports, groups, filters with text
- Licensed based on number of ports, adding ports via GUI
Low Latency
Low latency with zero variance is a very important requirement for today's real time applications. Simena's Packet Flow Switch PFS1524 model has industry's lowest latency which is fractions of microsecond. The latency value is also fixed during any operation including filtering.
Wire Speed
Packet Flow Switches provides any to any connection at wire speed for any packet size. It has 10GE full duplex wire speed under any utilization among its 24 ports.
Web Based GUI
Simena's Packet Flow Switches are managed by a web based GUI which provides very intuitive user interface with mouse over hints to utilize the system very easily.
Clustering
PFS's web based GUI also provides central management of remote PFSs from a single user interface. In addition, it allows clustering (stacking) multiple PFS units to act as a one big virtual switch with up to 500 ports.
Packet Slicing
Packet slicing feature allows users to forward packets with headers only by striping the payload or any portion of the packet to eliminate overloading of monitoring tools. Users can specify to slice packets from 64 to 4096 bytes.
Port Tagging
Port tagging feature allows marking each monitored packets to be tagged with unique numbers such as the port numbers the packets come from. This way the monitoring system can identify each packet based on their physical source.
Internal Tap
With PFS, users can also create network taps internally. Production systems can be directly connected to PFS, providing connectivity as well as the ability to duplicate and aggregate packets from these systems. This capability eliminates the use of external taps or valuable SPAN ports. Redundant power supplies in PFS1524 ensure production traffic always runs.
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