Interface network traffic with a single device, no matter which interfaces are used
Aster A-648 at a glance
- 1/10/25/40/100 Gb/s visibility in 1U form factor
- Available ports: 16x1/10/25Gbps plus 32x10/25Gb/s plus 8x40/100Gbps
- L2GRE, L3GRE, VXLAN tunnel encapsulation and de-capsulation
- Filtering and load balancing based on inner and outer parameters
- Traffic aggregation and replication
- Header Stripping, Slicing, VLAN tagging
Aster A-648 Packet Broker provides a comprehensive Network Packet Brokering for all link speeds from 1 Gbps to 100 Gbps.
Designed with a 1U box, Aster A-648 provides 16×1/10/25G, 32×10/25G and 8×40/100G ports, so making possible to interface network traffic with a single device, no matter if 1Gbps, 10Gbps, 25Gbps, 40Gbps or 100Gbps interfaces are used, and to aggregate, filter and load balance it towards the monitoring tools at different speeds.
A-648 implements Advanced Packet Manipulation (APM) functionalities, like Packet Slicing, Header Stripping and Tunnel Encapsulation/Decapsulation capabilities, to improve monitoring tools efficiency and send and get data to/from NFV infrastructure.
- Possibility to interface all link speed with one only device: 1/10/25/40/100 Gb/s ports are available in 1U space
- By doing header stripping on a variety of tunnels, allows monitoring tools to process traffic flows that they otherwise could not recognize because of an unreadable header type
- Feed the monitoring tools with the right data, by filtering the network traffic up to L4, using both inner and outer parameters
- Ready for NFV and 5G infrastructure monitoring: thanks to its advanced tunnel capabilities it can get data from and send data to the virtual infrastructure
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| Product | Aster A-648 |
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| Technical data sheet | Aster A-648 |
| PERFORMANCES | |
| Switching Capacity | 2.0 Tb/s |
| INPUT/OUTPUT PORTS | |
| Total number of input/output ports | 16x1/10/25 Gb/s plus 32x10/25 Gb/s plus 8x40/100 Gb/s |
| Max number of 100 Gb/s ports | 8 |
| Max number of 40 Gb/s ports | 8 |
| Max number of 25 Gb/s ports | 80 |
| Max number of 10 Gb/s ports | 80 |
| Max number of 1 Gb/s ports | 16 |
| MODULE TYPE | |
| 100 Gb/s QSFP28 ports | 8 each one to be used as 1x100 Gb/s or 4x25 Gb/s |
| 40Gb/s QSFP+ x 8 ports | 8 each one to be used as 1x40 Gb/s or 4x10 Gb/s |
| 10 Gb/s SFP+ port | 48 |
| 1Gb/s SFP port | 16 |
| NETWORK PACKET BROKER | |
| L2-L4 filtering, based on inner and outer parameters | |
| Inner IP filtering | |
| Traffic replication | |
| Traffic aggregation | |
| Load Balancing, based on inner and outer parameters | |
| Support Jumbo frames | |
| L2GRE, L3GRE, VXLAN tunnel Start/Termination | |
| Advanced Capabilities | |
| Packet slicing | |
| MPLS, GTP-U, L2GRE, VLAN, VNTag, VXLAN Header Stripping | |
| VLAN ID replacement | |
| VLAN, MPLS Tag adding and removal | |
| DEVICE MANAGEMENT | |
| Web GUI | |
| CLI | |
| Real Time statistics and counter (for each input/output port) | |
| SNMP alarms | |
| PROTOCOLS | |
| – IPV4, IPV6 | |
| – SNMPV2, SNMPV3 | |
| – TACACS+ | |
| – HTTPS | |
| - Syslog | |
| SYSTEM SPECIFICATION | |
| Chassis | 1U |
| AC Redundant power supply | |
| DC Redundant power supply | |
