Expand Your Visibility Fabric with Advanced Packet Broker Functionality

Product Description

The nGenius 7000 Series Packet Flow Switches (PFS) are dense, 1G to 100G models designed for dense 1 GbE to 100 GbE deployments and bridge the gaps between 1GbE, 10GbE, 25GbE, 40GbE, and 100GbE networks and tools.

The nGenius 7000 Series Packet Flow Switches offer SFP+, SFP28, QSFP+, and QSFP28 ports in various 1RU and 2RU fixed configuration form factors. All ports are enabled by default, with each port configurable as an input port, intermediate (service) port, or output port. With the NETSCOUT pfsMesh, a self-organizing architecture, the nGenius 7000 Series Packet Flow Switch can be deployed in a redundant, low-latency meshed architecture for dynamic and fault-tolerant visibility that can scale to over 40001 ports across LAN and WAN environments.

Cost-Effective Feature Set

Providing a lot of interfaces into a compact form factor, the nGenius 7000 Series Packet Flow Switches support core network packet broker features including filtering, load balancing, replication, and aggregation. With an expansive feature set, the nGenius 7000 Series Packet Flow Switches are capable of managing a monitoring network independently. Connect the HD Fiber TAPs and any number of tools, including NETSCOUT's Service Assurance and Security Assurance products, to an nGenius 7000 Series Packet Flow Switch and easily manage a diverse and complex monitoring network. With NVGRE tunnel origination monitored packets can be forwarded across routed networks or to virtual monitoring applications.

Flow-aware load balancing enables intelligent control of traffic distribution to the monitoring tools, increasing output capacity while maintaining session integrity. For example, packets from a 40GbE TAP can be captured and automatically load-balanced across multiple 1GbE or 10GbE monitoring tool ports based on user-defined session criteria. The PFS 7000 series can load balance among tools of different processing capacity (e.g., 10GbE tools and 40GbE tools) by assigning weights to each tool port to achieve weighted load balancing. Load balancing across multiple L2GRE or VxLAN tunnels allows traffic to be spread among several remote or virtual destinations. Flow-aware load balancing can operate in tandem with hardware-based filtering or independently

Security Optimization

To take action as offenders and bad actors are detected active inline security tools need to see and handle all the traffic that needs to be inspected.

nGenius 7000 Series Packet Flow Switches with inline tool chaining allow aggregation, filtering, and load-balancing of production network traffic toward multiple inline security applications whilst adding only a single device to each network link. Application-specific health checks (not just ICMP heartbeats) ensure the active security tools are connected and functioning properly. External bypass TAPs can be used to ensure that the security policies are adhered to during power failure. Triggers allow automated event-driven behavior (such as redirecting traffic, deactivating ports, or sending notifications via syslog or SNMP) to enable highly available (HA) inline security configurations.

• General Information
• • Manufacturer
  • NETSCOUT
  • Manufacturer Website Address
  • http://www.netscout.com
  • Brand Name
  • NETSCOUT
  • Product Line
  • nGenius
  • Product Series
  • 7000
  • Product Type
  • Ethernet Switch