Service providers and enterprises deploy Network Packet Brokers (NPBs) to build monitoring networks that feed replicated traffic flows from production networks to monitoring and analytics tools. These monitoring networks often have an expansive, layered footprint of aggregation and core NPBs distributed across the network, creating numerous operational challenges. As the number of management endpoints grows, provisioning, configuring, and upgrading NPBs become more time-consuming and error-prone. In addition, several departments within the organization share the monitoring infrastructure, but each has its own visibility requirements. Providing access only to flows that are relevant to a particular group of users therefore becomes an important undertaking. With the growing adoption of Network Functions Virtualization (NFV), these challenges now also extend into the realm of virtualized networking and monitoring infrastructures.
To effectively manage their NPB infrastructure, service providers and enterprises need a centralized and intuitive management application that can provide a single point of administration for all physical and virtual NPBs deployed in their networks.
Specifications
Specifications
ComponentMinimum Specification
CPU8-core 2 GHz processor
RAM16 GB
HDD128 GB
OSRHEL release 7.2 or CentOS release 7.2
BR-NVA-BVM-1Visibility Manager license for one device
BR-NVA-INFOSIM-1Infosim StableNet license for one device
NVA-BVM-SVV-SW-1Essential Application Support 24×7—1 year, Visibility Manager
NVA-BVM-SVV-SW-2Essential Application Support 24×7—2 years, Visibility Manager
NVA-BVM-SVV-SW-3Essential Application Support 24×7—3 years, Visibility Manager
NVA-BVM-SVV-SW-4Essential Application Support 24×7—4 years, Visibility Manager
NVA-BVM-SVV-SW-5Essential Application Support 24×7—5 years, Visibility Manager
NVA-INFOSIM-SVV-SW-1Essential Application Support 24×7—1 year, Infosim StableNet
NVA-INFOSIM-SVV-SW-2Essential Application Support 24×7—2 years, Infosim StableNet
NVA-INFOSIM-SVV-SW-3Essential Application Support 24×7—3 years, Infosim StableNet
NVA-INFOSIM-SVV-SW-4Essential Application Support 24×7—4 years, Infosim StableNet
NVA-INFOSIM-SVV-SW-5Essential Application Support 24×7—5 years, Infosim StableNet
BR-9500-1NODE-SVV-SW-11 Node license (paper)—1 year; includes support
BR-9500-1NODE-SVV-SW-31 Node license (paper)—3 years; includes support