Network Visibility
Expand visibility without extending your budget with a carrier-grade network visibility solution. Aggregate, filter, optimize, and reduce network traffic in real time. Proactively monitor customer experience and network conditions. With a comprehensive, intelligent, and scalable network visibility platform, you’re well on your way to transforming data into revenue.
Physical Packet Broker
Next-Generation Visibility for Service Provider Networks
Brocade Packet Brokers deliver real-time, programmable network visibility with the best-in-breed performance and cost-effective scalability you need to effectively manage, secure, and monetize your mobile network. Use MLXe Packet Brokers for core traffic aggregation and optimization, and SLX Packet Brokers for edge traffic aggregation.
Carrier-Grade Scale and Performance
Scalable core and aggregation packet brokers deliver up to 6.4 Tbps and 1.28 Tbps aggregate port throughput respectively in a single chassis unit.
Flexible Form Factors for Diverse Deployment Scenarios
Deploy centralized and distributed network visibility architectures with 1, 5, 7, 14 and 33 RU hardware packet broker form factors.
Session Director
Software-Defined Session Intelligence for Scalable, On-Demand Visibility into Mobile Networks
Mobility-Aware Traffic Optimization
Value-added features such as GTP correlation and advanced filtering based on attributes (IMSI, IMEI, APN, RAT) optimize flows on a per tool basis.
Automated Network Learning
Holistic, real-time network topology graphs support advanced, network-aware flow provisioning.
Real-Time Flow Programming
The tool-facing, real-time flow programming API exposed by Brocade Session Director delivers a truly service-oriented visibility architecture.
Visibility Manager
Single Pane of Glass for Simplified Management and Provisioning
Simplify network operations with a centralized, easy to use, graphical user interface for provisioning, configuring, and maintaining Brocade Network Visibility portfolio products.
Single Pane of Glass
Intuitive, point-and-click GUI helps provision, configure, and maintain Brocade Network Visibility products.
Monitoring and Reporting
Monitor metrics and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for inbound and outbound flows by port, line-card, or device.
Programmatic Management
Enable third-party management tools to programmatically manage Brocade Network Visibility products with management APIs.
Virtual Packet Broker
Scalable Network Visibility for Virtualized Workloads
Gain real time visibility into east-west traffic between Virtual Network Functions (VNF) with the industry’s first full-featured, virtualized network visibility solution for service providers and enterprises. Deploy Brocade Virtual Packet Broker as a virtual tap for traffic interception and replication, or as a virtual broker for traffic aggregation, tool-specific filtering, and optimization.
Tap and Broker Deployment Alternatives
Deploy as a virtual tap in the application VM environment, or deploy as a virtual broker outside the application VM environment for advanced aggregation and optimization features.
Advanced Filtering and Load Balancing
Filter and load-balance traffic flows by port, IP address, and encapsulation header, or by matching content within specific byte offsets.