NETSCOUT nGenius 5110 Packet Flow Switch

The nGenius® 5110 Packet Flow Switch (PFS) is a dense 10G/25G model and is a part of the nGenius 5000 series of Packet Flow Switches. The nGenius 5110 model is designed with dense 10GbE and 25GbE deployments in mind and bridges the gap between 1GbE, 10GbE, 25GbE, 40GbE, and 100GbE Ethernet networks and tools.

The nGenius 5110 Packet Flow Switch has built-in 48 x 1Gbe /10Gbe/25GbE SFP28 ports and 6 x 40GbE/100GbE QSFP28 ports which provide a maximum of up to 72 10GbE or 25GbE ports via breakout cables all in a 1RU, fixed-configuration 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 self-organizing architecture, the nGenius 5110 Packet Flow Switch 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 5110 Packet Flow Switch supports core network packet broker features which includes filtering, load balancing, replication, and aggregation. With an expansive feature set, the nGenius 5110 Packet Flow Switch 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's Service Assurance and Security Assurance products, to the nGenius 5110 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, a 100GbE TAP from the network can be captured and automatically balanced across multiple 10GbE, 25GbE or 40GbE monitoring tool ports based on user-defined session criteria. 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 Packet Flow Switches with inline tool chaining allow aggregation, filtering, and load-balancing of actual network traffic toward multiple inline security applications whilst adding only a single device to each network link while providing application-specific health checks (not just ICMP heartbeats) to 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.

Management

The nGenius 5110 Packet Flow Switch can be managed via a Web UI, CLI, and NETCONF XML API using HTTP, HTTPS, or SSH. 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 5110 Packet Flow Switch to manage and let the web-based user interface (WebUI) power the packet flow system. Management IP addresses can be manually assigned or obtained via DHCP.