VSS Monitoring network packet broker appliances

VSS Monitoring has introduced a suite of NPB appliances and software capabilities which are claimed to deliver the industry’s only fabric-system approach for enhancing global visibility and operational performance for network monitoring and security systems. The vBroker product range enables users to provide network-wide link-layer visibility and access to a broad set of network monitoring and security systems.

The vBroker 200 and vBroker 300 appliances expand the capacity and interface flexibility of the company’s packet broker solutions while delivering a rich set of features, including traffic filtering/grooming and offloading of packet processing to increase tool system capacity and efficiency. The vBroker 300 Series provides high capacity in a 1RU format - 560 Gbps - and up to 56 ports per appliance, while the vBroker 200 Series provides the flexibility of a modular chassis in compact 1 or 2RU form factors.

Launching with the company’s packet broker appliances is vMesh, a mesh architecture to interconnect up to 256 VSS Monitoring NPBs and more than 10,000 ports, delivering good scalability and link-layer visibility, whether across multiple data centre racks, physical locations or entire geographies. Customers gain the scalability to capture and broker packets across large networks to centralise monitoring and security systems, resulting in more efficient capital investments and fewer resources needed to manage them. vMesh leverages VSS Monitoring’s vStack protocol to provide end-to-end visibility and data access - at the link-layer - across the entire network.

Adding to the company’s system-level capabilities is a management console called vMC. Customers can now manage all or multiple VSS Monitoring NPBs using a single ‘pane-of-glass’ to deploy, provision and make drag-and-drop configuration changes for the full topology and perform bulk software updates. Customers can also create advanced charts and graphs at a group or network-wide level.