Ixia Vision Edge 1S (E1S) Edge Visibility Appliance

The need for real-time network data visibility into edge sites has never been greater. Being able to know how one’s network, applications, and services are performing is no longer “nice to have.” In fact, it is now imperative to have the ability to quickly quantify threats within and outside of the network.  Ixia’s new Vision Edge 1S (E1S) combines network packet broker functionality, application monitoring, and synthetic monitoring — all in one device. This is perfect for edge site installations that require remote network performance monitoring combined with selected packet collection to centralized tools.  

Key Features:-

• Cost effective - Ixia's most affordable network packet broker, Vision E1S is designed for  easy deployment in distributed edge sites 

• Application intelligence - detect flow and applications, generate enriched NetFlow (IxFlow)  to collectors, and perform remote packet capture 

• Active traffic capable - utilize a traffic generation library that generates synthetic  traffic to verify network capacity and run regular network performance polling 

• Remote controlled, easy-to-use web-interface - allows efficient provisioning and  remote management

• Comprehensive wizards - make deployment extremely easy

Highlights:-

• 1U compact platform

• Supports 1G to 10G networks

• Supports scaling your security infrastructure to edge sites

• Featured with Ixia's NetStack, PacketStack and AppStack capabilities

• Aggregation, replication, filtering

• AppStack for enriched NetFlow (IxFlow) generation and remote packet capture

• Active traffic generation up to 10G line rate for a Hawkeye monitoring platform

• Central management on the Hawkeye platform

Product Capabilities:-

NetStack Capabilities:-

Ixia’s gold-standard baseline filtering functionality for network packet brokers

Filtering : Filter between ingress ports and egress ports for maximum flexibility in designing complex Boolean logic without the need of using extra ports for loopback

Aggregation : Consolidate incoming traffic to optimize port usage and simplify filter logic — support for 1:1, 1:M, M:1, and M:N traffic mapping

Replication : Replication of the ingress port enables the same input to connect to multiple egress ports, with filtering rules in the middle applying same rules to all egress ports

PacketStack Capabilities :-

Packet processing modifies packets at line-rate, with capabilities up to 10Gbps

Tunneling : L2GRE-based tunneling over WAN/LAN (origination and termination)

Header : Stripping Includes VLAN, MPLS, L2GRE,  and ERSPAN

AppStack Capabilities  :-

Identify network traffic based on application, geography, device information, and service provider — all while performing application-based filtering and generation of NetFlow and IxFlow up to 2Gbps

Application Flow Reporting : Reports bandwidth utilization by application breakdown, providing visibility on link utilization

NetFlow and IxFlow : Generate flows in standard NetFlow v9/v10 format or enriched format, adding application or geographic information                           

Packet Capture (Remote) : Apply a filter to capture packets —  up to 100Mb per capture

Real-time Dashboard : Comprehensive network traffic information showing traffic volume  and bandwidth used by  different applications