Visibility & Security With sFlow Solutions
Brocade networking products have all been architected to deliver full line rate forwarding and routing, and provide traffic flow information through our embedded sFlow technology. This allows network traffic data to be delivered in real-time, from all Brocade equipment, to a variety of security, reporting, and compliance devices. This includes anomaly detection, IDS/IPS, and traffic accounting appliances and applications. With sFlow, Brocade can eliminate the use of costly and difficult to operate network sensors, and provide real traffic data, even in a 10Gig environment.
Overview
Complete network management has always been a goal for network managers in companies of all sizes. Trying to understand all the possible traffic flows, the bandwidth requirements, performance implications, security threats, and billing allocations are just a few of the challenges that network managers face with modern networks. As networks grow in size, speed, and capacity, it is getting much more difficult to monitor and manage with traditional tools that rely on RMON or NetFlow based counters and statistics.
sFlow is a modern standard based network export protocol (RFC 3176) that addresses many of the challenges that network managers face today. By embedding sFlow technology into network router and switch ASICs, Brocade delivers an "always-on" technology that operates at wire speed performance. Cost of implementation is driven down dramatically when compared to traditional network monitoring solutions using mirrored ports, probes, and line tap technologies. A full enterprise-wide monitoring capability for every port in the corporate network is now possible using sFlow. Advantages of Brocade sFlow implementation include:
- ASIC based for fast low overhead monitoring
- Reduces the need to use port mirroring and to provision probes throughout the network (this reduces cost & complexity while maintaining high-performance)
- Supports a broad range of protocols (IPv4, IPv6, MPLS, IPX, Appletalk, and more)
- Can be integrated with a broad range of network management and threat detection applications
- IronView Network Management software supports sFlow collection and can convert sFlow into Snort format for Intrusion Detection and closed loop remediation
- Works with InMon Traffic Server to provide continuous monitoring and analysis of network traffic.
Related Products
Brocade provides a range of security solutions and partners that assist customers in building highly secure networking environments. These security solutions revolve around our award winning L2-3 switches and routers, wireless access points and switches, L4-7 traffic management solutions, and our L2-7 security products.
Security Partners
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- Lancope Partner Brief (PDF 463K)
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