Monitoring Fabric
Delivering packets to your analysis tools
Big Monitoring Fabric™ is a next-generation Network Packet Broker (NPB) that’s been designed from the ground up to build a pervasive visibility fabric that addresses the challenges of current NPB-based monitoring solutions. Using an SDN-centric architecture, Big Monitoring Fabric enables scale-out fabric for network-wide monitoring, with a single pane of glass for operational simplicity, and multi-tenancy for multiple IT teams (NetOps, DevOps, SecOps).
Typical Deployment Scenarios:
Scale-out Out-of-Band Monitoring (East-West DC Traffic, Remote DC/Branch Monitoring, Centralized Tool Sharing)
Inline Service Chaining in the DMZ / Extranet (North-South DC Traffic)
Forward the Span Packets from anywhere in your network to your tools


Architecture
The Big Monitoring Fabric architecture consists of the following components:
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Cluster of SDN-enabled Big Monitoring Fabric Controllers
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White Box or Brite Box Ethernet Switches
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Big Switch Networks' SDN-enabled Switch Light™ OS
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Big Monitoring Fabric Service Node for Advanced Packet Functions