DMF utilizes the underlying cost

efficiencies of the high performance,

merchant-silicon switches, as well

as the industry-standard x86 based

appliances.

Significant CAPEX/OPEX Savings

The DMF enables a high-performance, integrated NPB + analytics + packet capture

solution that supports rapid detection and analysis of network performance and

security anomalies. DMF leverages merchant-silicon switches and commodity

hardware to provide significant savings, both capital and operational. By contrast,

the traditional NPB-based approach has high TCO due to ever-expanding box-

by-box deployment, proprietary NPB hardware, and under-utilization of tools or

inefficient use of them due to organizational silos.

Open, Industry-Standard Hardware Economics

DMF utilizes the underlying cost efficiencies of the high performance, merchant-

silicon switches, as well as the industry-standard x86 based appliances. As a result,

DMF is much more cost-effective for pervasive, scale-out monitoring.

SDN-Enabled Operational Efficiencies

DMF is provisioned and managed through the single pane of glass, thanks to

the DMF controller CLI, GUI or REST APIs. This operating model allows for easier

integration with existing management systems and monitoring tools. This SDN

approach hence significantly reduces the operating costs associated with box-by-

box management of traditional NPBs.

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Any vendor

Any topology

Any virtual

machine

Any container

Deduplication

Packet slicing

Packet masking

Header stripping

Regex match

Tap &

SPAN

Traffic

Production Network

DC/Campus Network

L2-GRE

Network perf monitoring

App perf monitoring

Security tools

VOIP monitoring

Traffic recorders

Netflow generation

Timestamping (SW based)

GTP correlation

UDP replication

Tap/SPAN

Remote

Tap/SPAN

Remote

DMF

Controllers

1/10/25/40/100G

Ethernet Switch Fabric

Centralized Tools

DMF Service

Nodes

DMF Recorder

Nodes

DMF Analytics

Nodes

DANZ Monitoring Fabric

Figure 1: DANZ Monitoring Fabric (DMF) Architecture

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