Load Balancing
Logically divide traffic among ports
The Load Balancing feature is a licensable addition to the GigaSMART® engine that divides and distributes traffic among multiple tools, so network and security visibility can scale beyond the capacity a single tool can provide. Using effective load balancing techniques, traffic and requests can be distributed based on a variety of options: bandwidth, cumulative traffic, packet rate, connections, round robin, and stateless hashing.
Load Balancing allows operators to include any port in the node as a member of the tool group, as well as ports operating at different speeds. Operators can also use load balancing to weight server-traffic delivery on a per-port basis, to accommodate bandwidth differences or processing capabilities of attached tools, or match and load balance based on inner addressing within encapsulated and tunneled packets.
Benefits of the Load Balancing feature
- Helps scale network infrastructure by dividing traffic between two or more tools when volume exceeds a single tool or port's capacity.
- Improves efficiency by weighting traffic application delivery to match tool processing capabilities or port bandwidth capacity.
- Automatically redistributes traffic to remaining tools in case of tool failure. Automatically restores tool availability for new traffic upon failed tool recovery.
- Enables load balancing of encapsulated or tunneled traffic (GTP, GRE, or ERSPAN).
- GTP-aware load balancing helps mobile service providers ensure improved response time and performance for individual subscribers or groups.
GigaSMART Features
GigaSMART® offers a number of other essential traffic intelligence services required for active visibility into infrastructure blind spots, including:
NetFlow Generation
Delivering basic Layer 2–4 network traffic data to analysis tools.
Advanced Flow Slicing
Eliminates these issues by slicing payloads and packets from long data flow.
Source Port Labeling
Provides context to packets and allows tools to properly assess network behavior and threats based on where they are.
Adaptive Packet Filtering
Identifies patterns across any part of the network packet, including the packet payload.
SSL/TLS Decryption
Creates a secure channel between the server and the end user's computer or other devices as they exchange information.
Packet Slicing
Truncates packets while preserving the portion of the packet (the protocol headers) required for network analysis.
Advanced Load Balancing
Divides and distributes traffic among multiple tools, so network and security visibility can scale.
De-duplication
Targets, identifies and eliminates duplicate packets, blocking unnecessary duplication and sending optimized flows.
Masking
Provides customizable data protection by overwriting specific packet fields with a set pattern.
Tunneling
Alleviates blindness of business-critical traffic at remote sites, virtualized data centers, or hosted in a public cloud.
Application Visualization
Provides a complete view of the applications running on your network automatically.
Application Filtering Intelligence
Extends Layer 7 visibility to thousands of common and proprietary applications.
Application Metadata Intelligence
Empowers your security information and event management and network performance monitoring tools.
GTP Correlation
Enables mobile service providers to monitor subscriber data in GPRS Tunneling Protocol tunnels.
5G Correlation
Intelligently forward subscriber sessions to specific tools by filtering on subscriber, user device, RAN or network slice IDs.
FlowVUE Flow Sampling
Provides subscriber IP-based flow sampling.
SIP/RTP Correlation
Enables enterprises and service providers to monitor VoIP traffic.
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