Intelligence Distribution System Balancer

"SPAN Expander" Solution provides Aggregation, Filtering & Load Balancing for network analyzers, forensics systems, content inspection engines, network IDS, and VoIP recorders

The Intelligence Distribution System Balancer (IDSB) provides up to an 80% reduction in capital, maintenance, and operations expenditure for network monitoring solutions, while increasing monitoring coverage for network analyzers, forensics systems, content inspection engines, network Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS), and VoIP recorders.

Network monitoring provides significant benefits to organizations, however it often comes with a high cost and a few deployment challenges. First is a shortage of SPAN ports to use for monitoring. The Top Layer IDSB effectively multiplies the number of SPAN ports available for network monitoring sensors. Second, many monitoring sensors have trouble handling high amounts of traffic. Faced with a large overload, these sensors begin discarding traffic without checking for attacks - a sure recipe for disaster. The Top Layer IDSB aggregates the traffic from multiple network segments and thus it provides immediate savings - since fewer monitoring sensors are required to examine network traffic.

The IDSB "SPAN Expander" Solution

Reduce your capital, maintenance, and operations expenditure for all types of network monitoring solutions.
Simplify the management of your monitoring solutions.
Enable simultaneous monitoring for different applications (such as security and network troubleshooting).
Maximize your current investment in existing sensors and help to extend their longevity.
Scale your monitoring solutions, and enable the sensors to sustain the volume of traffic to be monitored.
Add N+1 redundancy for your monitoring sensors.
Enable monitoring in asymmetrically routed networks.
Balancing of VoIP traffic for VoIP recorders.

Features

Aggregation of traffic.
Filtering by IP address and application.
Intelligent load balancing.
Flow Mirror™ to intelligently distribute traffic in full context.
Policy-based traffic distribution considers both the type and the source of the traffic.
Wizard-based configuration, easy to use and deploy.
802.1Q VLAN tag stripping for sensors that can't accommodate them.
Flow Mirror traffic to multiple simultaneous groups to accommodate different types of sensors.
Kill/reset packet forwarding.