Product Description

The nGenius® 5000 Series Packet Flow Switches (PFS) are dense, 1G to 100G models designed for dense 1GbE to 100GbE deployments and bridge the gaps between 1GbE, 10GbE, 25GbE, 40GbE, and 100GbE networks and tools.

The nGenius 5000-series Packet Flow Switches offer SFP+, SFP28, QSFP+, and QSFP28 ports in various 1RU, and 2RU, and 4RU fixed configuration form factors. All ports are enabled by default1 , with each port configurable as an input port, intermediate (service) port, or output port. With the NETSCOUT pfsMesh, a self-organizing architecture, the nGenius 5000-Series Packet Flow Switch can be deployed in a redundant, low-latency meshed architecture for dynamic and fault-tolerant visibility that can scale to over 40002 ports across LAN and WAN environments.

Cost-Effective Feature Set

Providing a lot of interfaces into a compact form factor, the nGenius 5000 Series Packet Flow Switches support core network packet broker features including filtering, load balancing, replication, and aggregation. With an expansive feature set, the nGenius 5000 Series Packet Flow Switches are capable of managing a monitoring network independently. Connect the HD Fiber TAPs and any number of tools, including NETSCOUT's Service Assurance and Security Assurance products, to an nGenius 5000 Series Packet Flow Switch and easily manage a diverse and complex monitoring network.

Flow-aware load balancing enables intelligent control of traffic distribution to the monitoring tools, increasing output capacity while maintaining session integrity. For example, packets from a 40GbE TAP can be captured and automatically load-balanced across multiple 1GbE or 10GbE monitoring tool ports based on user-defined session criteria. The PFS 5000 series can load balance among tools of different processing capacity (e.g., 10GbE tools and 40GbE tools) by assigning weights to each tool port to achieve weighted load balancing. Flow-aware load balancing can operate in tandem with hardware-based filtering or independently.

Management

The nGenius 5000-Series Packet Flow Switches can be managed via Web UI (over HTTP or HTTPS) and CLI (via SSH) and include NETCONF XML (over SSH) and RESTCONF (HTTP or HTTPS) APIs for programmatic management; the systems can be monitored via Syslog and SNMP. Each device ships with an intuitive and easy to use graphical element management system (EMS) out of the box. Simply point a web browser at the nGenius 5000-Series Packet Flow Switch and let the web-based user interface (WebUI) power the packet flow system. IPv4 or IPv6 management IP addresses can be manually assigned or obtained via DHCP; DHCP can also be used to bootstrap new PFS via Zero Touch Provisioning.

Virtual Access

For accessing traffic that is completely virtualized and never makes it onto a physical network, traffic can be mirrored and forwarded from the virtual network to the physical network using tunneling protocols such as NVGRE (L2GRE) or ERSPAN which encapsulate the traffic of interest. The nGenius 5000 Series Packet Flow Switches can terminate these tunnels so the traffic can then be forwarded on to monitoring applications.

Power and Cooling

Each of the nGenius 5000 Series Packet Flow Switches supports redundant, hot-swappable power supplies. Redundant, hot-swappable fan modules (in an N+1 configuration) supply ample cooling in a front-to-back air flow configuration.

• Optical Fiber
• Twisted Pair

• Gigabit Ethernet
• 10 Gigabit Ethernet

• 1000Base-X
• 10GBase-X
• 1000Base-T
• 1000Base-LX
• 1000Base-SX
• 10GBase-LR
• 10GBase-SR
• 10GBase-ER
• 10GBase-ZR
• 10GBase-T

• IEEE 802.3
• IEEE 802.3ab
• IEEE 802.3ae
• IEEE 802.3ba
• IEEE 802.3bm
• IEEE 802.3by
• IEEE 802.3z
• IEEE 802.1ad
• IEEE 802.1Q
• IEEE 802.3cu

• 120 V AC
• 230 V AC

• 50 Hz
• 60 Hz

• AC
• Power Supply