As organizations continue their digital transformation, the underlying network becomes increasingly critical for supporting end user applications and services. With this increasing reliance on network infrastructure to support growth of complex and dynamic IT workloads, network traffic management, service complexity, and security become more taxing. Network managers face network performance and reliability challenges, including security-related attacks and breaches, resulting in service disruptions that can occur at any moment.
Organizations can use Flow Optimizer to proactively help increase network efficiency, improve resource utilization, mitigate network attacks, and significantly reduce network congestion. The Flow Optimizer is an easily deployable open Software-Defined Networking (SDN) application that detects and manages large Layer 2 through Layer 4 traffic flows in service provider and enterprise networks. By defining policies for proactive monitoring and automated management of large traffic flows and programming those policies into Flow Optimizer to optimize their network infrastructure, organizations can perform the following:
Threat Management – Detect and mitigate threats in the network quickly and efficiently with:
Flow Optimization – Monitor, tune, and map network flows for intelligent Service Level Agreement (SLA) management with profile granularity and enhanced flow reporting:
The Flow Optimizer application is supported by the Extreme Networks MLX® Routers and Extreme Networks SLX® Routers, as well as the Extreme Networks VDX® Switches. The application comes with a Web-based Graphical User Interface (GUI) that provides simple profile configurations and a detailed view of the dashboard and associated settings. Additionally, REST APIs facilitate customized integration into existing network environments and cloud orchestration systems.
Specifications
Specifications
ServerLinux
Ubuntu 14.0.4 (64 Bit), CentOS 7
Server must have in-band connectivity to Extreme MLXe Routers or Extreme ICX Switches to receive sFlow packets
Server CPUIntel Core: Four cores or equivalent
Server memory and storage32GB RAM
1 TB of free hard disk drive space
Extreme SDN ControllerOpenDaylight Controller Boron SR3
DevOps AutomationStackStorm 2.3.3 and NE 1.2
Switch/Router firmwareExtreme Networks MLX NetIron firmware, version NI 6.0, 6.1.0 (IPSEC Logical port and Group table feature need NI 6.1.0)