PFS 6010 and HD Taps provide highest scale, performance and density
in the market at 40G
WESTFORD, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sep. 13, 2016--
NETSCOUT
SYSTEMS, INC. (NASDAQ: NTCT), a leading provider of business
assurance – a powerful combination of service assurance, cybersecurity,
and business intelligence solutions – today announced two additions to
its nGenius® Packet
Flow Switch (PFS) portfolio, designed for performance and scale at
40G. The nGenius PFS 6010 packet flow switch adds a high-density 40G
line card, providing the highest density 40G system in the market, as
well as expanding the coverage of protocol stripping and
de-encapsulation. The HD (high density) Fiber Tap introduces a flexible
optical tapping solution for networks that scale from 1G to 100G.
The PFS 6010 offers the industry’s most scalable packet flow switch
solution, with advanced traffic optimization, filtering and flow
balancing functionality in a single system that support speeds from 1G
to 100G. With the PFS 6010 and HD Fiber Taps, all speeds and feeds
needed for network access and monitoring tools or security systems are
addressed in a single solution, simplifying deployment, configuration
and operations.
According to analyst firm IDC,1 the 40Gbe/100Gbe market is
forecasted to grow at 39.2% CAGR from 2014-2019. Datacenter adoption of
10GbE is widespread, and adoption of the newer 40GbE/100GbE speeds is
ramping up rapidly. 40GbE is seeing rapid adoption in the datacenter as
public and private cloud demands grow. 100GbE is similarly establishing
itself on the market and will see a growing uptake from high-end
datacenters and hyperscale players.
“Datacenters are evolving to support higher capacity and faster
connections and this leads to a myriad of implications for network
infrastructure,” said Nolan Greene, senior research analyst, IDC.
“Monitoring systems may not have kept pace with these changes, and need
the density and scale capabilities of systems such as the NETSCOUT
nGenius PFS 6010 in order to ensure network visibility.”
The PFS 6010 packet flow switch already provides the highest density
systems for 100G and 10G, and now for 40G as well, delivering maximum
scalability for any network environment. The new 40G high-density line
card provides 15 ports of 40G, delivering a total of 150 40G ports in a
single fully populated PFS 6010 chassis, the highest density 40G system
in the market today. In addition to key capabilities such as protocol
stripping and de-encapsulation, the PFS 6010 also features new generic
stripping capabilities, to provide the broadest coverage for removing
unwanted protocol headers from the traffic before forwarding to
monitoring devices.
Organizations can reduce operational complexity with the PFS 6010. In
contrast to multi-chassis options, only a single system needs to be
managed, minimizing use of precious data center rack space and reducing
cabling requirements. Deploying this high-density 40G solution also
reduces per port cost by over 50% on the PFS 6010 packet flow switch,
and scales to meet the needs of the largest enterprise and service
provider environments.
With data center and rack real estate at a premium, the HD Tap chassis
secures rack space in a 1RU form factor so IT can mix and match variable
tap modules at high densities. This flexibility supports evolving
optical network conditions, from collections of homogenous links to
those with various speeds and feeds. As networks upgrade, tap modules
can be easily added or swapped out. The HD Fiber Tap module options
support numerous popular interfaces and media types, including 1G for
SX, LX, and ZX; 10G for SR, LR, and ER; 40G for SR2 BiDi, SR4, LR4, LM4,
ER4, and ZR4; and 100G for SR4, LR4, ER4, and SR10. These links are now
made fully available to a PFS, such as the 6010.
Key features of the PFS 6010 and HD Fiber Taps include:
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Flexibility and density for different network needs. With PFS
6010 and high-density Fiber Taps, numerous popular interfaces and
media types are supported, including 40G support for Cisco SR2 BiDi,
SR4 for 40G, in addition to LR4, LM4, ER4, and ZR4 40G. For networks
requiring 100G support, options include SR4 for 100G, in addition to
LR4, ER4, and SR10 100G.
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Simple, flexible, and scalable deployment options with the HD Fiber
Tap. The high-density Fiber Taps have a unique design that slots
into a rack mount chassis, consolidating tapping interfaces and
minimizing rack space use. With densities of up to 24 fiber network
connections in 1RU and modularity on a per 1x1 tap basis, Tap modules
can be added or swapped out to support the physical media upgrades
without hassle as networks evolve.
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All traffic is visible. With generic stripping available on the
PFS 6010, monitoring tools and security systems see everything. In
complex networks with multiple, specialized protocols (e.g. Fabric
Path, GRE, GTP, IP-in-IP, L2F, L2TP, L2VPN, MAC-in-MAC, MPLS, NVGRE,
PPTP, STT, TRILL, VXLAN), monitoring systems may not be able to see
all the traffic. With generic stripping at 4Tbps performance,
organizations can now monitor large amounts of traffic that they were
unable to monitor before. For instance, if they are utilizing SDN or
virtualized networks where encapsulation using protocols like STT or
VXLAN are prevalent, these packet flows are now made visible to the
monitoring systems to provide complete visibility.
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Continuous line rate performance. Hardware-accelerated
microburst mitigation delivers line-rate performance to ensure no
packets are dropped, so monitoring visibility is constant.
Availability
The nGenius PFS 6010 packet flow switch with
40G HD line card and generic stripping and the HD Fiber Taps are
available now. Customers covered under NETSCOUT’s award-winning MasterCareSM
customer support program enjoy access to supported features and
applications released during the term of their coverage without the
costs and complexity of additional software feature licenses.
To learn more about the nGenius Packet Flow Switches and HD Taps, visit here.
About NETSCOUT SYSTEMS, INC.
NETSCOUT SYSTEMS, INC. (NASDAQ:
NTCT) is a leading provider of business assurance – a powerful
combination of service assurance, cybersecurity, and business
intelligence solutions – for today’s most demanding service provider,
enterprise and government networks. NETSCOUT’s Adaptive Service
Intelligence (ASI) technology continuously monitors the service delivery
environment to identify performance issues and provides insight into
network-based security threats, helping teams to quickly resolve issues
that can cause business disruptions or impact user experience. NETSCOUT
delivers unmatched service visibility and protects the digital
infrastructure that supports our connected world. To learn more, visit www.netscout.com
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1 IDC Market Forecast: Worldwide Ethernet Switch Forecast,
2015-2019. May 2015. Doc # 256299.
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