Brocade Network Visibility

Brocade Network Visibility is the open program focused infrastructure for monitoring systems and analytics.

On November 2, 2015 the Brocade company announced release of technological solutions in the field of network analytics and creation of a partner ecosystem which purpose — to help mobile operators to reach the new level of understanding of characteristics of network traffic and to transfer monitoring infrastructure from monolithic on the program-controlled, open and distributed basis.

Representation of Brocade Network Visibility (2015)

Market situation puts pressure upon mobile operators: decrease in ARPU from voice services is not compensated by revenue growth from transfer of mobile data, and popularity of Over-The-Top (OTT) services, in particular, delivery services of video content demands from networks even more than performance and capacity. This trend determines the speed of deployment of networks 4G/LTE and need of planning of transition to a 5G. In the course of changes the increasing number of mobile operators stakes on monitors and analysts of network for cost control, creation of premium services and search of sources of income. Traditional solutions in this area, unfortunately, are not intended for work with mobile networks of other generations.

Action of package brokers in network of mobile operator (2015)

Answering calls of time and progress of Brocade created the open, program focused infrastructure for monitoring systems and analytics. As a part of the Network Visibility family products:

• Brokers of network packets Brocade MLXe and Brocade ICX® — family of package brokers with different characteristics in terms of density of ports and performance;

• The virtual package broker Brocade — full-function virtual TAP/package first in the industry the broker for virtual package kernel (vEPC);

• Brocade Session Director is means for programming of package brokers in real time and quality improvements of the collected information;

• Brocade Packet Probes is virtual high-performance tests for decoding and extraction of the metadata used by monitoring systems and analysts;

• Brocade Visibility Manager is the management system with the uniform toolbar providing access to all set a solution component of Brocade Network Visibility;

• Open API — ability to integrate with solutions of other producers and freedom of choice on each of levels of a complex of monitoring and analytics.

The complete solution opens for the mobile operator of an opportunity in terms of flexibility and freedom of choice at the organization of infrastructure for monitoring and analytics. The program focused approach gives the chance to configure package brokers in real time and to scale a system to unprecedented 100 million subscribers on a package core.

For acceleration of implementation and assistance to development of innovations in the field of monitoring of networks, Brocade created a specialized partner ecosystem. Its main objective: provide to mobile operators a broad set of solutions and provide the high level of compatibility on each of infrastructure levels for monitoring and analytics.

Characteristics

• Program controllability and openness:
  • dynamic architecture with horizontal scaling to 100 million subscribers;
  • programming of package brokers in real time for optimization of the traffic sent for tests and to means of analytics;
  • program setup of a packet network using more complete and exact analytical data;
  • virtual package brokers and tests with a possibility of increase or reduction of performance according to current demands of the operator;
  • uniform control panel physical and virtual parts of a system of analytics;
  • open API at each level of infrastructure for integration into the equipment of different producers.