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Agenda
• Software IP SLA agent• Smart Loopback• IP SLA probe• TAP / Packet broker• Network Interface Device (NID)• Optical Time Domain Reflectometer (OTDR)• Dying gasp• Deep Packet Inspection (DPI)• Router/VPN-gateway on a stick• Advanced telemetry• Ethernet switch• Network time server• IP SLA probe with precision GNSS sync• USB router• MACSec encryption
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Software IP SLA agent Production
• Easy IP SLA software agent integration (just install)• Software-based traffic generating up to 250 Mbps (iperf tested)• Single board computer inside the SFP (Raspberry Pi like)• Debian OS, Linux kernel 5.x• Loaned IP feature support for IP address saving • No free rack space required• No separate power supply required
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Smart Loopback – Service activation Production
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• Service activation testing / on-demand channel verification• Applicable for network analyzing with help of Y.1564, RFC 2544, BERT• Measurements without impact on user’s traffic• In-line or out-of-line usage• Compatible with test equipment of any vendor• Ready for testing at every moment
• Smart Loopback L2-L4• Loopback by L2-L4 filters• TWAMP Light• Test traffic statistics• Loaned IP• Remote loopback activation• Persistent Smart Loopback
Deploy at scale – use Smart SFP instead of standard SFP transceiver
Smart Loopback – In-depth troubleshooting Production
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• Remote packet capturing via ERSPAN to PC with Wireshark enabled• Transit traffic statistics• Familiar troubleshoot tools are available from anywhere on the network:
ping, traceroute, tcpdump, iperf, speedtest, curl, ssh/telnet, and others• Smart Loopback L2-L4• Easy standard software integration (apt-get install …)• Ready for troubleshooting at every moment • Inline or out-of-line usage
Remote root cause isolation without dispatching IT staff
Reducing of MTTR
IP SLA probe Production
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• Line-rate packet generator and analyzer• BW, loss, delay, jitter• Smart Loopback L2-L4• TWAMP Light• Y.1564• Service activation test with interval stats• PTP and NTP• HW timestamps• Packet capture• Flow statistics by filters• RMON statistics• Loaned IP
IP SLA probe = software agent + hardware implemented features
Deploy at scale – use Smart SFP instead of standard SFP transceiver
TAP / Packet broker – For distributed network
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• Monitoring and network visibility: flow monitoring, DPI• Security analysis: DDoS, ADS, IDS, IPS• Troubleshooting
Features:• ERSPAN by filters• Packet slicing • Sampling, policing, duration
(secs/bytes/packets)• HW timestamping• NetFlow / sFlow / IPFIX
Production
Deploy at scale – use Smart SFP instead of standard SFP transceiver
TAP / Packet broker – For campus network
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• Unique copies of traffic for every analysis appliance• Decreasing network and hardware load due to
mirroring only relevant traffic• Policer for total speed limitation of the mirrored traffic
Capturing capabilities:• LAN and WAN traffic monitoring• Inline or out-of-line installation• All traffic are mirrored• Mirroring by filters (5-tuple, VLAN ID)
Production
Network Interface Device (NID)
Tunnel extending• VXLAN tunnel from DC to the customer site• MPLS extension to client’s equipment
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Beta
Traffic remarking• VLAN, Q-in-Q, 802.1p• Remarking, mapping, tagging/untagging
Classic approach - 2 ports Smart SFP approach - 1 port
Optical Time Domain Reflectometer (OTDR)• Regular SFP mode – Gigabit Ethernet• Fiber fault distance detection and significant events
with help of integrated micro OTDR • Auto/manual switching between SFP and OTDR modes• Advanced network troubleshooting: LB, IP SLA, ERSPAN• Wavelengths: 1310, 1550, 1270-1610 (CWDM) and 1625 nm• Single wave single fiber operation (SWSF)• Up to 40 km, 1 or 2 fibers• Management: SSH, REST API, SNMP• Compatible with any equipment right out of the box
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Beta
OTDR Lite
• Regular SFP mode – Gigabit Ethernet and STM-1/4/16• Fiber fault distance detection and significant events
with help of integrated micro OTDR • Auto/manual switching between SFP and OTDR modes• Wavelengths: 1310, 1550, 1270-1610 (CWDM) and 1625 nm• Single wave single fiber operation (SWSF)• Up to 60 km, 1 or 2 fibers• Management over I2C
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Solution for vendors of networking and measurement equipment:switches, routers, multiplexers, testers
Beta
Dying gasp
Dying gasp – sending an alarm message in the event of unexpected power outage
Features:• Up to 5 seconds of working without external power supply• Sending alarm messages via SNMP, Syslog and Ethernet OAM• Customization of alarm messages• Sending messages to one or several monitoring systems• IP SLA software agent installation to measure loss, delay, jitter• Up to 80 km• 1 or 2 fiber• Different wavelengths• IP-management: SSH, REST API
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Beta
Deep Packet Inspection (DPI)
Benefits:• Full network visibility from one point• Detailed statistics up to L7• Real-time traffic analysis and relevant tests running• Total network coverage
Key features:• Support of various DPI engines• DPI engine processes data locally on the Smart SFP• Up to L7 flow classification • Thousands of classified applications and metadata• Ability to develop custom signatures• Only statistics is sent to the monitoring system• Ultra low bandwidth occupation• Integration with OSS through API/IPFIX
Use cases:• Network usage control at any point• End-to-End service assurance• Subscriber behavior analysis and quality of
experience control (QoE)• Security analytics• Troubleshooting, root-cause isolation
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Smart SFP 1GS
Beta
Router/VPN-gateway on a stick
Key features:• 1G Line-rate software packet processing• Linux kernel 5.x• Various OS – Debian, Ubuntu, CentOS• FRRouting (FRR)• WireGuard• DPDK• XDP/eBPF
Applications:• Routing• Bridging• VPN• Overlay
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Smart SFP 1GS
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Beta
Advanced telemetry
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• Microburst analyzer• Extracting metadata from packets and flows up to L7• TCP monitoring: flags, window size• Add/extract timestamps• Threshold alerting• In-band network telemetry (INT)
Compatible with any collector SW
Under development
Ethernet switch
• 3-port 1/10 Gigabit Ethernet switch• 2 x independent single fiber
transceivers in SFP case• Tx and Rx wavelengths: 1310 and 1550 nm• VLAN/Q-in-Q, tag/untag, trunk• Rate-limit• QoS• BFD• 1+1 redundancy • Ring topology• PRP/HSR
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Applications:• Increase access switch port density (1 port = 2 customers)• RedBox for electrical substations• TAP, mirroring
Under development
CPU
RAM Flash
FiberDriverBOSA
Driver
1/10G
Ethernet
SW(FPGA)
FiberBOSA
Port 1
Port 3
Port 2
Tx/Rx
Tx/Rx
Port 1
Port 2
Ethernet switch
Smart SFP
Ethernet Switch
RouterSwitch
RouterSwitch
SFP
+
SFP
+
Connecting 2 customers in to 1 port
3 Gbps
Single port redundancy
SwitchRouterHost
Smart SFP
G.8032PRPHSR
Customer 1 Customer 2
7 Gbps
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Under development
Redbox
Network time server Under development
• PTP (IEEE 1588 v2), NTP• GNSS receiver• GLONASS, GPS, GALILEO, BeiDou• 1 PPS input/output• «Copper» SFP, RJ-45
AntennaRouter
Switch
Smart
SFP
PTP
Sync-E
LAN
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Applications:• Primary or backup sync source for 5G/4G/3G BS• Compact PTP grandmaster for power utilities
IP SLA probe with precision GNSS sync
• Delay and jitter measuring <100 ns• Build-in GNSS: GPS, GALILEO, GLONASS, BeiDou• Y.1564, TWAMP• Out-of-line installation• Does not require complex configuration
and maintenance of PTP
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Under development
USB router
• 3G/4G/5G USB modem• Router or bridge mode• Performance up to 1 Gbps• NAT/Firewall• VPN tunnels• USB type A or C, host/device
Smart SFP
Router
Switch3G/4G
modem
USBInternet
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Applications:• Remote site backup link• Smart Out-of-Band (OOB) management
Roadmap
MACSec encryption Roadmap
Smart SFP
Router
Switch
Router
Switch
Smart SFP
Wire-speed
layer 2 encryption
Uncontrolled cable
infrastructure
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Site 1 Site 2
Models and capabilities
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Smart SFP 1G 1GS 10G 10GL OTDR-L Switch Time 10GR 10GA
1G/10G +/− +/− +/+ +/+ +/+ +/+ +/− +/+ +/+
Fiber/Copper1 +/+ +/∗ +/∗ +/+ +/− +/− −/∗ +/∗ +/∗
SW IP SLA + + + + − + + + +
Smart Loopback + − + − − + + + +
HW IP SLA + − + − − + + + +
Advanced telemetry + + + − − + − + +
TAP + − + − − + − + +
OTDR2 + − + + + − − + +
DPI, VPN, Router − + − − − − − − −
Dying gasp − − − + − − − − −
Ethernet SW − − − − − + − − −
Time server − − − − − − + − −
IP SLA with GNSS − − − − − − + − −1 ∗ - RJ-45 model is supported, but has not planned for manufacturing yet2 HW option