Simena announces industry's lowest latency monitoring switch

STERLING, USA: Simena, a leader in network monitoring and testing solutions, announced a new version of Packet Flow Switch, PFS1524, a highly sophisticated network monitoring and aggregation switch.

PFS1524 has the industry's lowest fixed latency due to its cut-thru switching fabric and wire speed performance among all 24 10GE ports. PFS1524 can be used to aggregate 10GE monitoring traffic with innovative features such as clustering, packet slicing, and port tagging.

With its compact 1U chassis, PFS1524 provides 24 SFP/SFP+ cages that supports all standard types of Ethernet SFP+ and SFP modules. All 24 ports can be used for any function or connectivity in any combination.

Through its web based GUI, multiple PFS1524 units can be stacked or clustered together to virtually create a 500+ port monitoring switch. The GUI can also provide the centralized management of all PFS1524s deployed in the production network.

PFS1524's packet slicing feature allows users to forward only the configurable portion of packets, which eliminates the overloading of monitoring systems with unnecessary data. Another valuable feature called port tagging marks the packets with the physical port IDs where they are received. This allows performance measurement systems to identify and determine the origin of packets.

With PFS1524, a user can also create network taps internally. Production systems can be directly connected to PFS1524, providing connectivity as well as the ability to duplicate and aggregate packets from these systems. This capability eliminates the use of external taps or valuable SPAN ports. Redundant power supplies in PFS1524 ensure production traffic always runs.

“Network monitoring is becoming more challenging with high bandwidth and low latency requirements. Today's real time systems such as algorithmic trading applications widely used by financial institutions require 10GE Ethernet bandwidth and guaranteed execution at microsecond levels,” said Sezen Uysal, President of Simena.

“With our new PFS1524, we are providing a monitoring network switch that can aggregate, duplicate, distribute and filter packets at 10GE wire speed at fixed latency which is fractions of a microsecond. We want to ensure our customers can monitor their network and applications with complete confidence by examining every single packet from their production networks and measuring performance with the ultimate accuracy.”

The PFS1524 Packet Flow Switch is immediately available for evaluation and ordering.