PacketWolf Packet Broker

Advanced Network Packet Processing

Network Traffic Processing up to 400G

FPGA Chipset | Low Latency | Deep Packet Inspection

HIGH-PERFORMANCE NETWORK VISIBILITY

Timestamping | VLAN Tagging | Header Stripping | Deduplication | IP Flow Export | Data Masking | Filtering | Packet Slicing | Tunnel Encap/Decap

The NEOX PacketWolf Series includes a range of advanced packet-processing-based Network Packet Brokers designed for enterprises, data centers, service providers, network edge, and HPC/HFT applications. With its FPGA-based low-latency architecture, PacketWolf is the ideal platform for advanced packet processing of up to 400G. All PacketWolf models consolidate and deliver packet data centrally, enhance bandwidth and tool utilization, and serve as a standalone L2-L4 packet-services solution. They support features such as VLAN tagging, timestamping, header stripping, tunnel encapsulation and decapsulation, deduplication, IP flow export, data masking, advanced filtering, and packet slicing – all without any additional licensing fees. They support NETCONF API for seamless monitoring integration.

PacketWolf NX-PW-100 model offers 4 x 25G SFP28 or 4 x 1G SFP / 4 x 10G SFP+ interfaces with 100G data throughput.

PacketWolf NX-PW-200 model offers 2 x 100G QSFP28 or 2 x 40G QSFP+ / 4 x 25G (fan-out) / 8 x 10G (fan-out) interfaces with 200G data throughput.

PacketWolf NX-PW-400 model offers 4 x 100G QSFP28 or 4 x 40G QSFP+ / 8 x 25G (fan-out) / 16 x 10G (fan-out) interfaces with 400G data throughput.

PacketWolf Packet Broker - nx-pw-100 (100G)

NX-PW-100

HIGHLIGHTS

Supports lossless processing of network data up to 100Gbps at line rate
4x 1G/10G/25G SFP28 interfaces
Reliable and low latency due to FPGA architecture
Supports nanosecond timestamping according to IEEE 1588v2 PTP
Supports export of LiveFlow (IPFIX, NetFlow) data to NPM tools
Small form factor (1U)
Scalable and easy to commission
Replaceable fans and redundant power supplies

KEY FEATURES

Line-rate FPGA features/functionalities:
- Advanced Filtering
  - Frame length, header length or payload length
  - Frame errors
  - L2 Protocol/Encapsulation
  - L3 IPversion/Protocol/Encapsulation
  - L4 Protocol (Ports)/Tunnel
  - Pattern compare
  - Complex expressions via logical operators (NOT,AND,OR)
- Advanced Deduplication – removal or forwarding of duplicate packets with a programmable deduplication window of 10 µs to 2 seconds. Configurable packet signatures (masking of variable fields e.g. TTL/Hoplimit, DSCP/TraffType, exclusion of Outer Encapsulations, and more).
- Masking (for sensitive information in the packets)
- Slicing/snapping/truncation/trimming – payload removal so that the Ethernet packet contains only the desired number of bytes or information, including a programmable number of bytes offset. Including FCS recalculation. Metadata is preserved. Enables, among other things, to ensure GDPR compliance.
- Decapsulation/Header Stripping/Header Removal – MPLS, VLAN, VNTag, GTP, PPTP, ERSPAN, VxLAN, GRE, GENEVE, LISP, NVGRE, PPPoE, CFP/FabricPath, EoMPLS, IP-in-IP, MAC-in-MAC and custom/user defined encapsulations
- De-tunneling (Tunnel Termination) for traffic generated by vTAPs, ERSPAN,VxLAN
- GTP Filtering
- Timestamping – with nanosecond accuracy is applied to each processed packet using a PTP time server. Locally or via external PTP grandmaster according to IEEE 1588v2.
- High precision PCAP Replay at original rate and at any desired rates
- Source port labeling and VLAN tagging
- Load-balancing on multiple VLAN tags – wide range of hashing algorithms (e.g. 5 tuple, 2 tuple, VLAN, MPLS, customisable, etc).
- Low Latency Aggregation – Consolidation of incoming network traffic to optimise port usage. 1:1 and Many:1
FPGA accelerated features/functionalities:
- Loopback (shuffling the L2,L3,L4 sources and destinations)
- Entire payload masking
Host features/functionalities:
- Secure Web GUI
- PCAP viewer
- PCAP composer/editor

HARDWARE

1x Enterprise Class CPU
2x 10G LAN management port
Redundant and hot-swappable AC power supplies
64GB DDR4 RAM
NVMe SSD storage for the operating system

MODELS

SKU	Description
NX-PW-100	4x 25G SFP28 interfaces with 100G data throughput – or 4x 1G SFP / 4x 10G SFP+

Alternative combinations on request

DOCUMENTS

PacketWolf Packet Broker - nx-pw-200 (200G)

NX-PW-200

HIGHLIGHTS

Supports lossless processing of network data up to 200Gbps at line rate
2x 40G/100G QSFP28 interfaces – or 4x 25G (fan-out) / 8x 10G (fan-out)
Reliable and low latency due to FPGA architecture
Supports nanosecond timestamping according to IEEE 1588v2 PTP
Supports export of LiveFlow (IPFIX, NetFlow) data to NPM tools
Small form factor (1U)
Scalable and easy to commission
Replaceable fans and redundant power supplies

KEY FEATURES

Line-rate FPGA features/functionalities:
- Advanced Filtering
  - Frame length, header length or payload length
  - Frame errors
  - L2 Protocol/Encapsulation
  - L3 IPversion/Protocol/Encapsulation
  - L4 Protocol (Ports)/Tunnel
  - Pattern compare
  - Complex expressions via logical operators (NOT,AND,OR)
- Advanced Deduplication – removal or forwarding of duplicate packets with a programmable deduplication window of 10 µs to 2 seconds. Configurable packet signatures (masking of variable fields e.g. TTL/Hoplimit, DSCP/TraffType, exclusion of Outer Encapsulations, and more).
- Masking (for sensitive information in the packets)
- Slicing/snapping/truncation/trimming – payload removal so that the Ethernet packet contains only the desired number of bytes or information, including a programmable number of bytes offset. Including FCS recalculation. Metadata is preserved. Enables, among other things, to ensure GDPR compliance.
- Decapsulation/Header Stripping/Header Removal – MPLS, VLAN, VNTag, GTP, PPTP, ERSPAN, VxLAN, GRE, GENEVE, LISP, NVGRE, PPPoE, CFP/FabricPath, EoMPLS, IP-in-IP, MAC-in-MAC and custom/user defined encapsulations
- De-tunneling (Tunnel Termination) for traffic generated by vTAPs, ERSPAN,VxLAN
- GTP Filtering
- Timestamping – with nanosecond accuracy is applied to each processed packet using a PTP time server. Locally or via external PTP grandmaster according to IEEE 1588v2.
- High precision PCAP Replay at original rate and at any desired rates
- Source port labeling and VLAN tagging
- Load-balancing on multiple VLAN tags – wide range of hashing algorithms (e.g. 5 tuple, 2 tuple, VLAN, MPLS, customisable, etc).
- Low Latency Aggregation – Consolidation of incoming network traffic to optimise port usage. 1:1 and Many:1
FPGA accelerated features/functionalities:
- Loopback (shuffling the L2,L3,L4 sources and destinations)
- Entire payload masking
Host features/functionalities:
- Secure Web GUI
- PCAP viewer
- PCAP composer/editor

HARDWARE

1x Enterprise Class CPU
2x 10G LAN management port
Redundant and hot-swappable AC power supplies
64GB DDR4 RAM
NVMe SSD storage for the operating system

MODELS

SKU	Description
NX-PW-200	2x 100G QSFP28 interfaces with 200G data throughput – or 2x 40G QSFP+ / 4x 25G (fan-out) / 8x10G (fan-out)

Alternative combinations on request

DOCUMENTS

PacketWolf Packet Broker - nx-pw-400 (400G)

NX-PW-400

HIGHLIGHTS

Supports lossless processing of network data up to 400Gbps at line rate
Up to 4x 40G/100G QSFP28 interfaces – or 8x 25G (fan-out) / 16x10G (fan-out)
Reliable and low latency due to FPGA architecture
Supports nanosecond timestamping according to IEEE 1588v2 PTP
Supports export of LiveFlow (IPFIX, NetFlow) data to NPM tools
Small form factor (1U)
Scalable and easy to commission
Replaceable fans and redundant power supplies

KEY FEATURES

Line-rate FPGA features/functionalities:
- Advanced Filtering
  - Frame length, header length or payload length
  - Frame errors
  - L2 Protocol/Encapsulation
  - L3 IPversion/Protocol/Encapsulation
  - L4 Protocol (Ports)/Tunnel
  - Pattern compare
  - Complex expressions via logical operators (NOT,AND,OR)
- Advanced Deduplication – removal or forwarding of duplicate packets with a programmable deduplication window of 10 µs to 2 seconds. Configurable packet signatures (masking of variable fields e.g. TTL/Hoplimit, DSCP/TraffType, exclusion of Outer Encapsulations, and more).
- Masking (for sensitive information in the packets)
- Slicing/snapping/truncation/trimming – payload removal so that the Ethernet packet contains only the desired number of bytes or information, including a programmable number of bytes offset. Including FCS recalculation. Metadata is preserved. Enables, among other things, to ensure GDPR compliance.
- Decapsulation/Header Stripping/Header Removal – MPLS, VLAN, VNTag, GTP, PPTP, ERSPAN, VxLAN, GRE, GENEVE, LISP, NVGRE, PPPoE, CFP/FabricPath, EoMPLS, IP-in-IP, MAC-in-MAC and custom/user defined encapsulations
- De-tunneling (Tunnel Termination) for traffic generated by vTAPs, ERSPAN,VxLAN
- GTP Filtering
- Timestamping – with nanosecond accuracy is applied to each processed packet using a PTP time server. Locally or via external PTP grandmaster according to IEEE 1588v2.
- High precision PCAP Replay at original rate and at any desired rates
- Source port labeling and VLAN tagging
- Load-balancing on multiple VLAN tags – wide range of hashing algorithms (e.g. 5 tuple, 2 tuple, VLAN, MPLS, customisable, etc).
- Low Latency Aggregation – Consolidation of incoming network traffic to optimise port usage. 1:1 and Many:1
FPGA accelerated features/functionalities:
- Loopback (shuffling the L2,L3,L4 sources and destinations)
- Entire payload masking
Host features/functionalities:
- Secure Web GUI
- PCAP viewer
- PCAP composer/editor

HARDWARE

1x Enterprise Class CPU
2x 10G LAN management port
Redundant and hot-swappable AC power supplies
64GB DDR4 RAM
NVMe SSD storage for the operating system

MODELS

SKU	Description
NX-PW-400	4x 100G QSFP28 interfaces with 400G data throughput – or 4x 40G QSFP+ / 8x 25G (fan-out) / 16x10G (fan-out)

Alternative combinations on request

DOCUMENTS

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NEOXPacketWolf Processing Appliances come with NEOX SILVER Support and can be upgraded to GOLD Support for advanced replacement in case of a hardware failure.

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