Solutions for Network Monitoring Access Performance Challenges Load Balancing Monitoring Access

Guest Speaker Lannie Rhodes – Product Manager Lannie spent 25 years as a hardware design engineer at Intel, Tandem computers, and several start-up companies before shifting to a product management role. In her three years at Net Optics, she has been instrumental in building the control product line, making key contributions in the Director, iLink Agg, and xBalancer families. Lannie is also a writer; her booklets "Asic Basics" and "Developing Printed Circuit Assemblies" can be found on Amazon.com and Lulu.com. Her non- technical writing is published under the pen name Lannie Rose.

Agenda The 10 Gigabit monitoring challenge The Load Balancing solution Three use cases Nine requirements for Monitoring Load Balancers A real-world implementation Conclusion

The 10 Gigabit Monitoring Challenge As network speeds increase to 10G, performance, security, and compliance monitoring is more important than ever — But monitoring tools are becoming a bottleneck!

The Load Balancing Solution Operate multiple tools in parallel to share the load Calls for a monitoring load balancer What are the requirements? What are the use cases? Network Traffic Monitoring Tool Capacity 2.5G 10G

Use Case #1: Call Center Out-of-band load balancing to traffic recorders Your call may be monitored for quality purposes

Monitoring Load Balancer Requirements Requirement #1 Flow Coherent Load Balancing Requirement #2 Accommodate different definitions of flow Requirement #3 Filtering capability to select traffic of interest Requirement #4 Include aggregation, redirection, and regeneration functionality

Use Case #2: Enterprise Intrusion Prevention Inline load balancing to IPSs

Monitoring Load Balancer Requirements Requirement #1 Flow Coherent Load Balancing Requirement #2 Accommodate different definitions of flow Requirement #3 Filtering capability to select traffic of interest Requirement #4 Include aggregation, redirection, and regeneration functionality Requirement #5 Adequate bandwidth for current and future needs Requirement #6 100% traffic visibility Requirement #7 Tolerant of IPS failures

Tool Sharing for Efficiency Dedicating tools to specific links uses tools inefficiently IPS Oversubscribed! Under-utilized!

Use Case #3: HIPAA Compliance Tool-sharing inline load balancing EHR Department Finance Department HR Department

Monitoring Load Balancer Requirements Requirement #1 Flow Coherent Load Balancing Requirement #2 Accommodate different definitions of flow Requirement #3 Filtering capability to select traffic of interest Requirement #4 Include aggregation, redirection, and regeneration functionality Requirement #5 Adequate bandwidth for current and future needs Requirement #6 100% traffic visibility Requirement #7 Tolerant of IPS failures Requirement #8 Inline tool-sharing capability Requirement #9 Fault mirroring across inline links

Net Optics xBalancer The first monitoring access device purpose-built for load balancing 24 SFP+ ports support 10G and 1G speeds Flow-coherent out-of-band and inline load balancing Up to 8 independent load balancing groups Up to 16 load balanced outputs per group Tool sharing: sharing a load-balanced toolset across multiple independent links

Preloaded Configurations 1 group Inline, tool sharing 8 independent links 4 IPSs 4 groups, each: Out-of-band, aggregating 2 inputs 4 out-of-band tools

xBalancer Meets the Requirements

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Net Optics Load Balancing Solutions

Conclusions Load balancing is a viable approach for increasing monitoring throughput Out-of-band (traffic recorders) Inline (Intrusion Prevention Systems) Increases ROI of existing tools CAPEX: High-throughput tools are very expensive OPEX: Personnel already trained and procedures in place on existing tools Monitoring tools combined with load balancing solutions offer 100% visibility, flow coherence, and tool sharing

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