Limited by legacy packet broker capabilities?

 
As technology and software advances, you can now take advantage of new and improved capabilities for a fully programmable pipeline that legacy packet brokers just can't handle, and at speeds up to 400G.
 
The MantisNet Reconfigurable Frame Processor - Next Generation (RFP-NG) provides packet broker-like capabilities including these additional functions to make network engineer's live more easy. Learn more from our blog series "Can your packet broker do this? A blog series on fully programmable data pipeline functions."
 
Traditional Packet Brokers MantisNet RFP-NG Function
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Identify unknown packets, complex parsing, match-action, de-parsing of packets:

  • Identify packets that don't match existing header definitions and parse graph (e.g. packets that don't parse) and direct packets out to a follow-on system for reverse engineering and further characterization.
  • Unique header / network overlay stripping capabilities (multiple VLANs, 802.1aq, etc.).
  • Can hash and load balance based on innermost IP information in complex packet formats.

Learn more about unknown packets, complex parsing and more here.
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Generate time-series data metrics for all applied ACLs (via ONT):

  • Ability to set ACLs (filters) and generate octets and packet stats.
  • Cloud native instrumentation via Prometheus and Grafana.

Learn more about generating time-series data metrics here.
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RFPX

 

 The Reconfigurable Frame Processor - Next Generation (RFP-NG) is a network intelligence and visibility solution for infrastructure and network operations teams. It provides network monitoring of complex traffic at 1G to 400G speeds and beyond. It consists of (P4) software applications running on a programmable software defined networking (SDN) platform. 

 

Technical specifications of our partner white-box switches  and appliances

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Resource Center

Demo: 100G complex traffic load balancing

Data Sheet: Network monitoring, control and observability at 100G

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