Net Optics Product Manager, Hema Helagatti, provides an over of Director Pro. Director Pro™ is a "Smart Filtering and load balancing" appliance built on Net Optics’ award-winning Director switch architecture. Offering the highest port density in the industry, Director Pro is the only security- and performance-monitoring switch that can control, filter, and dynamically load balance traffic sent to monitoring tools, enabling you to maximize the effectiveness and performance of your data center.

1. Product Overview: Director Pro
Hema Halagatti, Product Manager
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2. Today’s Challenges
• Cost and complexity
• Oversubscription Analyzer RMON IDS
• Tool contention
• Government regulations ?
• Compliance/Security
requirements Forensics IPS
Tool Contention
• Performance monitoring
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3. Director Pro
A versatile monitoring access appliance for improved network
visibility and security threat management across the whole
network.
1. All of the Director features and benefits, plus
2. Layer 7 Filtering through Deep Packet Inspection
3. Dynamic Load Balancing
4. ProPushTM Statistics
5. Extended Filtering
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4. Director Features
• Industry leading port density in 1U form factor
• Aggregation, regeneration, matrix switching
• Hardware based L2-L4 Filtering (up to 2000 filters per unit)
• Static load balancing
• Multi-unit operation
• Enterprise manageability via CLI, Web UI, SNMP, Syslog
• TACACS and Radius authentication
• Reliability
• Filter tagging and more..
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5. Typical System Components
1. Chassis
2. Director Network Module (DNM) - Available in Span/Inline, copper/Fiber versions
3. Director Monitor port interfaces
a. SFP Kits – Available in copper and Fiber versions b. XFP Kits – Available in SR ,LR and ER versions
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6. Layer 7 Filtering through DPI
• Improves monitoring tool efficiency by sending tools the exact data streams they
need to inspect
• Search anywhere in the entire packet payload
o Filtering on HTTP header information
o Filtering on custom application fields
• Pattern-matching in the L5-L7 headers and the packet payload
o Each pattern is one or two strings up to 64 characters long
o Strings can be in hex or ASCII format
• E.g. Detect leaks of confidential information
Protocol= String 1 =
Network Port 1 TCP Confidential Monitor Port 1
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7. Dynamic Load Balancing
• Optimize tool’s utilization when traffic is unpredictable
• Multi-unit system: the input and outputs of the flow balancer can cross chassis
boundaries freely
• Supports multiple load balancing modes
o Flow based
o Non flow based
o Link state aware
o N+1 redundancy
o Overflow mode
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8. ProPushTM Statistics
• Statistics for each Pro filter include,
o Byte counts and packet counts for total in, total out
o Load balance outputs
o Protocol distribution (IPv4, IPv6, TCP, UDP, ARP, ICMP)
• Send statistics to up to 5 management systems
• User configurable frequency (1-30 sec interval)
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9. Extended Filtering
• Enables efficient use of monitoring tools by eliminating unwanted traffic
• Supports exact ranges for IP addresses, ports, MAC addresses, and VLANs
• Filter on Ethertype to identify L2/L3 protocols
• Filter on MPLS label to analyze MPLS traffic
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10. Thank You
Questions ?
• Call Net Optics technical support at 408-737-7777
Want to share feedback ?
• Reach me at hema@netoptics.com
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11. Thank You!
Net Optics, Inc.
www.netoptics.com
408.737.7777
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