Extreme Physical Packet Brokers
Scale with high-capacity network monitoring
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Overview:
As network traffic continues on an exponential growth curve, service providers rely on a growing ecosystem of monitoring tools to effectively secure and manage their networks. But monitoring tools, like the networks they monitor, face significant scalability challenges that result in increased costs, higher operational complexity, and reduced productivity.
To manage escalating costs and enhance tool productivity, service providers need a scalable, programmable, and intelligent visibility infrastructure that can curate traffic in order to deliver relevant flows to each individual
Features:
Flow Aggregation and Regeneration
Wire-speed 10 GbE, 40 GbE, and 100 GbE flow filtering and forwarding on ports in a single line card or across several line cards:
- Map bidirectional (uplink and downlink) flows to the same network port
- Replicate flows from any network port to any tool port on the same or different line cards
- Aggregate flows from multiple 1 GbE, 10 GbE, or 40 GbE network ports to a single 10 GbE, 40 GbE, or 100 GbE tool port
- Distribute flows from one 10 GbE, 40 GbE, or 100 GbE network port across multiple 1 GbE, 10 GbE, or 40 GbE tool ports
- Selectively forward flows from 10 GbE, 40 GbE, and 100 GbE network ports to lower-speed tool ports
- Mirror flows across tool ports
- Dual, concurrent IPv4 and IPv6 stack support
- Burst protection with buffering on network ports
Mobile (Layer 7) Flow Optimization
Stateful optimization of mobile bearer and control flows:
- GTP correlation
- Subscriber (IMSI) aware forwarding
- Inter Radio Access Type (IRAT) transfer aware forwarding
- Bearer flow deduplication (based on inner IP payload)
- Automated mobile network topology learning
Flow Filtering
Flow selection and filtering configurable on a per-tool basis, based on:
- Layer 2, 3, and 4 criteria (5-tuple)
- Deep-packet (up to 128 bytes) pattern matching
- GTP outer and inner headers
- Packet length
- International Mobile Subscriber Identity (IMSI)
- VLAN tags
Load Balancing
Balance traffic load across multiple egress ports based on:
- Round-robin packet distribution
- IP hash
- GTP TEID and payload (inner) IP address
- International Mobile Subscriber Identity (IMSI)
Layer 2–4 Flow Optimization
Packet modification features for optimized flow delivery:
- MPLS label and VLAN tag stripping
- Port labeling
- Packet slicing
- Time stamping
Specifications:
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Extreme MLXe Packet Brokers at a Glance |
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Capacity and Performance |
MLXe-4 |
MLXe-8 |
MLXe-16 |
MLXe-32 |
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Interface module slots |
4 |
8 |
16 |
32 |
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Switch fabric capacity |
1.92 Tbps |
3.84 Tbps |
7.68 Tbps |
15.36 Tbps |
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Packet forwarding performance |
1.6 billion pps |
2.38 billion pps |
4.75 billion pps |
9.5 billion pps |
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Ports |
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Maximum 1 GbE ports |
80 |
160 |
320 |
640 |
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Maximum 10 GbE ports |
80 |
160 |
320 |
640 |
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Maximum 40 GbE ports |
16 |
32 |
64 |
128 |
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Maximum 100 GbE ports |
8 |
16 |
32 |
64 |
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Redundancy |
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Management module redundancy |
1:1 |
1:1 |
1:1 |
1:1 |
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Switch fabric redundancy |
N+1 |
N+1 |
N+1 |
N+1 |
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Power supply redundancy |
1+1 |
1+1 |
1+1 |
1+1 |
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Power and Cooling |
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Maximum DC power consumption (W) |
2,083 |
4,060 |
7,107 |
14,232 |
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Maximum AC power consumption (W) (100 to 240 VAC) |
2,083 |
4,060 |
7,107 |
14,232 |
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Maximum thermaloutput (BTU/HR) |
7,108 |
13,858 |
24,255 |
48,575 |
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Airflow |
Side to back |
Side to back |
Front to back |
Front to back |
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Dimensions |
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Height (inches/centimeters/rack units) |
8.71 in./22.12 cm/5U |
12.21 in./31.01 cm/7U |
24.50 in./62.16 cm/14U |
57.75 in./146.69 cm/33U |
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Width (inches/centimeters) |
17.20 in./43.69 cm |
17.20 in./43.69 cm |
17.20 in./43.69 cm |
17.45 in./44.32 cm |
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Depth (inches/centimeters) |
23.0 in./58.42 cm |
24.0 in./60.96 cm 2 |
4.18 in./61.42 cm |
26.88 in./68.28 cm |
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Weight (pounds/kilograms) |
117 lb/53 kg |
171 lb/78 kg |
351 lb/159 kg |
505 lb/229 kg |
Documentation:
Download the Extreme Physical Packet Brokers Datasheet (.PDF)