DANZ Monitoring Fabric™

Our mission is to deliver next-generation

data center networking and monitoring

solutions — enabling enterprises to realize

the benefits of simplified productivity,

improved scalability, and pervasive security

with a dramatically improved TCO.

DANZ Monitoring Fabric is a next-

generation network packet broker

(NPB) architected for pervasive, network

visibility delivering real-time and historical

insights into your physical and virtual

environments.

DANZ Monitoring Fabric Overview

DANZ Monitoring Fabric (DMF) is the industry’s first network packet broker

(NPB) that leverages an SDN-controlled fabric using high-performance,

merchant-silicon switches, and industry-standard x86 servers to deploy highly

scalable, agile, and flexible network visibility and security solutions. Traditional

box-based, hardware-centric NPBs are architecturally constrained to meet

emerging security and visibility demands of cloud-native data centers. DMF

addresses the challenges of traditional NPB solutions, by enabling a scale-out

fabric for enterprise-wide security and monitoring, a single pane of glass for

operational simplicity, and multi-tenancy for multiple IT (NetOps, DevOps,

SecOps) teams.

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Architecture: SDN Software powered Pervasive Network Visibility

DMF’s architecture is inspired by Hyperscale Networking designs, which consist

of merchant-silicon switch hardware, SDN controller software, and centralized

tool deployment.

The DMF architecture consists of the following components:

• High-availability pair of SDN-enabled DMF controllers — VMs or hardware

appliances — that enable centralized configuration and simplified

monitoring and troubleshooting.

• Merchant-silicon switches - Leverages high-performance, production-

grade switches from Arista, Dell and Accton.

• DMF Service Node (optional). DPDK-powered, x86-based appliance that

connects to the DMF fabric (either singly or as part of a service-node chain)

to provide advanced packet functions like deduplication, packet slicing,

header stripping, regex matching, packet masking, UDP replication, and

IPFIX/NetFlow generation.

• DMF Recorder Node (optional). x86-based appliance that connects to

the DMF fabric, managed by the controller to provide petabyte packet

recording, querying, and replay functions.

• DMF Analytics Node (optional). x86-based appliance that integrates with

the DMF fabric to provide multi-terabit, security, and performance analytics

with configurable historical time-series dashboards.

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