The NetDevices services gateway features stateful firewall protection, intrusion detection and prevention, voice over IP (VoIP) support, scalable dynamic and static routing, 10/100/1000 Mbps Ethernet switching, IPSec virtual private networks (VPN), and dedicated security processing. As multiple services are added, scalability and performance are maintained through its unique OnePass approach that performs common packed classification across multiple services.
Next Generation Architecture
- Performance » Common Classification
- High software resiliency » User Space Processes
- Easy, flexible software upgrades » Components
- Rapid addition of new services » Modularity
- Robust remote management » Lifeline
- Open platform for partner apps » Modularity
Performance
- System design points
- System balanced for processor, I/O, memory bandwidth
- Standards based infrastructure provides headroom for growth
- Common Classifier
- Enables performance scaling as services evolve
- User Space forwarding
- Van Jacobson study validates scalability and performance
Reliability
- Modularity
- Component based software delivery – Package Manager
- Pay as you go - License Manager
- Management Plane
- Consolidated control point for all services and applications
- Multiple remote access and management methods
- CLI, HTTP, HTTPS, SNMP, XML, Telnet, SSH
- Fault management – Lifeline
- Hardware design using standards based technology
- Multiple vendors, multiple sources
- Subsystem reuse across members of platform family
Serviceability
- Advanced management
- Remote monitoring/control
- Diverse requirements supported
- Dynamic status
- Readily extended, customized
- Minimize planned down time
- Lifeline enables remote diagnosis
- Component Delivery
Remote Management - LIFELINEâ„¢
- Management Plane protected at all costs
- What if?
- DoS attack occurs at a remote location and the appropriate filters are not configured?
- Forwarding engine crashes?
- Software configuration fails due to corrupt file?
- Misconfiguration of the box prevents normal access?
- With NetD, you can still login, view and fix the problem – with others, it’s a truck roll
Open Network Platform
- Application Services Engine adds flexibility
- Dedicated processor card to support additional applications
- Linux-based Operating System
- Can accommodate applications such as Web Caching, Radius, DNS, ntop, etc.
- ModuLiveTM, LifelineTM and other system advantages leveraged by these new applications and services
