When a global provider of Derivatives and Trading Systems needed to maximize their network performance and improve their network monitoring and data analysis, they turned to Net Optics Director Data Monitoring Switch. The firm faced the challenge of optimizing multiple redundant data centers to provide customers with the fastest possible access to trading data from international futures markets. Director’s ability to connect dozens or hundreds of critical high-volume data links dynamically to monitoring tools made it the ideal solution for providing the firm’s customers with the performance they demanded.
What you will learn:
Presented by Net Optics' FAE Aron Ingebrigtsen, this webinar will walk through a specific deployment scenario of Net Optics' Director Data Monitoring Switch as a key network infrastructure component for a global leader in Derivatives and Trading Systems.
Join us to discover:
The advantages of gaining 100% visibility across multiple data centers
How key features such as aggregation, regeneration, and traffic filtering at line speed make Director ideally suited to high-performance networking
The key business benefits of traffic monitoring and inspection
3. Agenda
1 • Case Overview
• Data Monitoring Challenges
2 for Financial Networks
• Possible Solutions to
3 Challenges
4 • Chosen Solution
5 • Achieved Outcome
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4. Customer Case - Profile
The Company
• Provider of high-performance
software and data for
derivatives transactions from
multiple exchanges
• Award-winning customer
service and innovation
Infrastructure
• Redundant data centers in the
U.S. and world wide located
close to exchanges
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5. Case Overview - Requirements
• 100% uptime of critical trading
links
• Improve network visibility for all
teams across world wide data
center footprint
• Enhance network monitoring
solutions by unifying data stream
• Reduce monitoring solution
footprint and increase efficiency
of the current systems
• Allow for data center growth and
entry into new trading markets
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6. Common Challenges in Financial Networks
• How will
Increasing network
Data monitoring tools
Volume handle
increase?
• Can data be
shared among
Data
Accessible multiple groups
with no impact
on data links?
• Can current
Increasing network tools
Network keep up, or will
Speeds they drop
packets?
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7. Case Overview – The Core Issue
Network Managers
Need data on health of entire
network to ensure uptime and Special Projects
SLAs Need focused data specific to
one exchange or region
Contention for data
access causes
conflict, slow
resolution time
Trading Algorithm
Specialists
Need specialized, one-off
data from across the network
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8. Possible Solutions
Taps Only Taps and Matrix Switch Net Optics Director™
• 1-to-1 connection • Overly complex • Unified, consolidate
between Tapped link • Not unified d architecture
and monitoring tool • Costly • Flexible
• No flexibility for data configuration
sharing / options for future
aggregation changes
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10. Case Overview – The Core Issue Resolved
Network Trading Special
Managers Algorithm Projects
Get the data Specialists Get the data
they need Get the data they need they need
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11. Director™
Highlights:
• Combines the features of multiple Net Optics products:
iTap™, Aggregator, Regeneration, Matrix Switches
• 7400 (74Gbps), 5400 (54Gbps) and 3400 (34Gbps) throughput
options
• Targets centralized IT department data monitoring
• Streamlines the amount of data sent to monitoring tools
• Enables using 1Gbps monitoring tools on 10Gbps networks,
and 10Gbps monitoring tools on aggregated 1Gbps links
• Hardware-based filtering engine for low latency
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12. Achieved Outcomes
Chosen Solution: Director™ Data Monitoring Switch
with inline DNM network modules
• Inline network modules replace individual taps into a simple and
elegant 1U appliance.
• Smart filtering on the Director allows for certain market exchanges to
be filtered out and directed to one, or multiple network monitoring
tools.
• No longer are groups silo’d! Collaboration is expanded across the
firm and problems can be solved in a shorter time frame.
• Multiple exchange links can be aggregated together and fed to
multiple groups, and or multiple monitoring tools.
• A Director stack can include up to 340 network ports, with data being
shared in between any of the units in the chain. This can all be
managed from one master Director unit for ease of management.
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13. Director – Key Takeaways
Key Feature Advantage Benefit
Collapsing taps into the
Multiple ports in a small,1U Director chassis and
Inline Network Modules
form factor enhancing visibility into
those tapped links.
Prevent oversubscription on Tools & groups within the
Intelligent data access and tool ports firm only see the data that is
control
relevant.
Data from any Director can
be intelligently shared to
any other unit in the stack.
Manage hundreds of ports
Director stacking This allows for groups to
from a single interface!
see the entire picture when
troubleshooting.
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14. The Future for this Customer
- Data Monitoring Switch
• (24) 10 Gig ports/(10) 1 Gig ports
• L2/4 Filtering capabilities
• RMON statistics for each port
• SPF+ based 10G interface can also support 1G
• Remote access through management port / SNMP v3
• Radius/TACACS+
• Device neutral can be used with analyzers or security tools
• Dual power for redundancy (hot-swappable)
• 19” Rackmountable 1U Chassis
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15. Q&A
• Question & Answer
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Net Optics, Inc.
www.netoptics.com
408.737.7777
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Editor's Notes
Keeping up with constantly increasing market data volume. How will the network monitoring tools, as well as the network access tools handle the increase in data?Accessing the critical, always on network links that need to be monitored while introducing as little latency as possible.The data needs to be shared among multiple groups throughout the organization, but there can be no impact on the actual market data links themselves.Extending the life of network monitoring tools as ports speeds increase.As speeds increase, current network tools will not be able to keep up creating black holes for visibility.
A) Taps on market exchange network links feeding a given monitoring tool.B) Taps on market exchange network links feeding a matrix switch which would then send data to given monitoring applications.C) Director Access Appliances with inline network modules which combines both solutions above.
