NETSCOUT nGenius 5010 Packet Flow Switch

The nGenius® 5010 Packet Flow Switch (PFS) is a dense 10G model and is a part of the nGenius PFS 5000 series of packet flow switches. The nGenius 5010 model is designed with dense 10GbE deployments in mind, and bridges the gap between 1GbE, 10GbE, and 40GbE Ethernet networks and tools.

The nGenius PFS 5010 has built-in 48 x 10GbE SFP+ ports and 6 x 40GbE QSFP+ ports, which provide a maximum of up to 72 10GbE ports, via breakout cables, all in a 1RU, fixedconfiguration form factor. 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 selforganizing architecture, the nGenius PFS 5010 can be deployed in a redundant, low-latency meshed architecture for dynamic and fault-tolerant visibility that can scale to over 4000* ports across LAN and WAN environments.

Cost-effective Feature Set

Providing a lot of interfaces into a compact form factor, the nGenius PFS 5010 supports core network packet broker features, which includes filtering, load balancing, replication, and aggregation. With an expansive feature set, the nGenius PFS 5010 is, like other devices in the PFS portfolio, capable of working and managing a monitoring network independently. Connect the HD Fiber TAPs and any number of tools, including the NETSCOUT InfiniStream® product, to the nGenius PFS 5010, and easily manage a diverse and complex monitoring network.

Flow-aware load balancing enables intelligent control of traffic distribution to the monitoring tools, increasing output capacity while maintaining session integrity. For example, a 40GbE tap from the network can be captured and automatically balanced across multiple 1GbE or 10GbE monitoring tool ports based on user-defined session criteria. Flow-aware load balancing can operate in tandem with hardware-based filtering or independently.

Management

The nGenius PFS 5010 can be managed via a Web UI, CLI, and NETCONF XML API using HTTP, HTTPS, SSH, or Telnet. The system can be monitored via Syslog and SNMP. Each device ships with an intuitive and easy to use graphical element management system (EMS) out of the box. Simply point a web browser at the nGenius PFS 5010 to manage, and let the web-based user interface (WebUI) power the packet flow system.

The nGenius PFS 5010 provides automated event driven monitor output traffic direction and responses (Syslog messages, SNMP traps, deactivate ports).

Virtual Access

For accessing traffic that is completely virtualized and never makes it onto a physical network, traffic can be mirrored and forwarded from the virtual network to the physical network using tunneling protocols such as NVGRE (L2GRE) or ERSPAN, which encapsulate the traffic of interest. The nGenius PFS 5010 can be the destination of these tunnels and terminate them, and the traffic can then be forwarded on to monitoring applications.

Power and Cooling

The nGenius PFS 5010 supports two redundant, hot-swappable power supplies, and five redundant, hot-swappable fan modules (in a 4:1 configuration), supplying ample cooling, in a front to back air flow configuration.