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Extreme Virtual Packet Broker

and Virtual TAP

Scalable Network Visibility for Virtualized Service Provider

and Enterprise Networks

The virtualization of networking functions across service providers, data

centers, and enterprise networks has grown significantly as network

operators embrace next-generation architectures to improve service

agility and operational efficiency. At the same time, it is becoming more

difficult to protect these complex virtualized networks from malicious

attacks. Monitoring for performance, service quality, and user experience

as well as dynamic resource orchestration and issue remediation are

critical to maintaining network health and performance.

Common network visibility solutions are designed for hardware-centric

networks. For the new virtual environment, network operators need an

effective, highly scalable network visibility and monitoring solution that is

specifically designed for virtual networks. Our Virtual Packet Broker (vPB)

and Virtual TAP (vTAP) delivers a full-featured network visibility solution

for virtualized service provider and enterprise networks. It offers an

end-to-end set of capabilities ? including traffic interception, filtering, and

optimization ? to maximize the productivity of network monitoring and

analytics tools. With the vPB and vTAP, you can analyze traffic flowing

between application VMs and if required forward to special purpose tools

for further analysis.

Highlights

- Provides comprehensive network

visibility, helping to secure, monitor,

optimize, and monetize virtualized

networks

- Scales dynamically to meet compute

capacity requirements during surges in

network traffic

- Improves operational efficiency by

automating resource provisioning and

simplifying feature additions

- Enhances monitoring productivity by

allowing the dynamic modification of

flow definitions and traffic optimization

functions within the Extreme Networks

virtual network visibility infrastructure

Data Sheet

Summary of content (4 pages)

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Dat a Sheet Hig hlig ht s - Provid es com p rehensive net w ork visib ilit y, help ing t o secure, m onit or, op t im ize, and m onet ize virt ualized net w orks - Scales d ynam ically t o m eet com p ut e cap acit y req uirem ent s d uring surg es in net w ork t raffic - Im p roves op erat ional efficiency by aut om at ing resource p rovisioning and sim p lifying feat ure ad d it ions - Enhances m onit oring p rod uct ivit y by allow ing t he d ynam ic m od ificat ion of flow d efinit ions and t ra
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Im p roved Op erat io nal Efficiency and Scale Sessio n and Packet Mo d e Our vPB and vTA P elim inat e t yp ical long d ep loym ent cycles associat ed w it h hard w are t hroug h aut om at ed scale orchest rat ion and sim p lified p rovisioning .
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SMA RTMat ch Virt ual Packet Bro ker and Virt ual TA P Sp ecificat io ns A SMA RTMat ch p olicy ad d resses t he req uirem ent for g roup ing m ult ip le g eneric p acket m at ch rules. The t ab le b elow show s t he sp ecificat ions for t he q cow 2 im ag e. The KVM hyp ervisor on w hich t he q cow 2 im ag e is d ep loyed m ust m eet t hese req uirem ent s.
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The vTA P and vPB sup p ort s Head er St rip p ing for: Sam p ling Sam p ling is a feat ure t hat red uces t he t raffic t hat flow s t ow ard s eg ress. It is only relevant t o Session Mod e (see ab ove) and can b e ap p lied on t he Int erface or as an act ion in a SMA RTMat ch rule. This feat ure can b e used t o set t he p ercent ag e of flow s t hat w ill b e sam p led out .