Flexible Optics. Granular Traffic Control. Enhanced Network Visibility.

Exciting news! A fresh release of the Aviz Packet Broker (APB) 2.12.1 is here. A few benefits from this recent release include improved optical visibility, hardware accelerated traffic filtering and a deeper insight to all traffic within a next generation data center. Given that networks can differ wildly (various network monitoring/connectivity needs, etc.) we decided to build upon our optical experience and bring you the right pick of traffic, and the most detailed view possible, of our packet streams.

What’s New in APB 2.12.1?

Dual-Rate Transceiver Support for Broadcom Platforms

Seamless 1G and 10G Optical Operations
Then there was an in the box support for the dual rate transceivers also in the 2.12.1 of APB so for dual rate optical modules this automatically guarantees for the functionality, so it will work at 1G/10G speed due to standard RS0/RS1 register support, so very easy deployment and you will not need to configure your optical module.

Automatic Recovery After Transceiver Re-Insertion
As it was briefed before, our solution has a background listening service which finds transceiver insertion events and it reinitializes transceiver service to a level which was preset in our system.

Persistent Configuration Management
Which means in effect when my system configuration file is interpreted and written in the context of my systemsconfig file's framework that this two rate limit has been applied. After service stop, system reboot and hard disk swap all the systemsconfig file framework and settings are still available and can be referenced so the network will always react the same.

Precision Packet Filtering with Packet Length Rules

Hardware-Accelerated Packet Length Filtering
Starting with APB. For this form factor that it is the Trident/Tomahawk. That we do support packet-size filtering at line rate/wire rate.

Granular Traffic Selection
Operators can allow or block packets at configurable length values for a variety of use cases, including:

• Discard jumbo frames from monitoring traffic
• Allow only essential traffic that flows through the control-plane
• Discard undersized or fragmented packets
• Mirror big application flows to analysis tools

Flexible Policy Integration
It really is only a few places that you can get to stack packet length filtering on top of, and that it's somewhat seamlessly so transparent so quickly.

Enhanced sFlow Management and Visibility

Flexible Sample Direction Configuration
It cleans things up a bit by adding sFlow sampling config on egress/ingress/both (whichever is appropriate given your hardware specs) by the APB globally, from globally/via the interface or exclusively via the interface.

Per-Interface sFlow Control
Any one of the physical interfaces can be separately configured (which would allow you to switch traffic on and off without affecting any other setting of this port).

Simplified Configuration Management
With sFlow, by the time of sFlow polling setup configuration, it’s an easy task, and this part of your administrative operation is significantly simplified.

Why This Matters

APB 2.12.1 addresses several operational challenges in modern network environments:

Optical Flexibility→ Ease the management and deployment of dual-rate transceivers across all Broadcom platforms.

Traffic Optimization → Size based filtering of packets via hardware offloading. Make your monitoring workflows more effective and faster.

Network Visibility → Take more granular control over which interfaces should sFlow sample traffic and in which directions.

Key Benefits

• Integrated Hardware Dual-Rate Optical Module Supportwith Automated Recovery
• Functionality Wire speed packet Filtering by Length Configurable sFlow to enhance
• Traffic visibility Permanent Configurations Across reboots or hardware incidents
• Decreased Operational Cost and Complexity with Streamlined CLI management.
• Greater deployment flexibility across heterogeneous network environments

Conclusion

You got it! Aviz Packet Broker added network visibility with an extended optical range and broke your traffic down to more intelligently structured pieces - it enhanced your work flow as well! Version 2.12.1will let you master even your more complicated networks!