Ixia announced support for OpenFlow enabled switches from industry leading manufacturers for its ControlTower distributed network visibility platform. Supported products include Arista, Dell and HP OpenFlow enabled switches.
Ixia said its ControlTower visibility solution allows customers to leverage SDN and seamlessly layer the sophisticated management and advanced processing features of Ixia’s Net Tool Optimizer (NTO) family of solutions on top of the flexibility and baseline feature set provided by OpenFlow switches.
Key highlights of the expanded visibility architecture include:
- Ease of use, advanced processing functions and single pane of glass configuration through Ixia’s NTO user interface and purpose-built hardware
- Full programmability and automation control using RESTful APIs
- Patented automatic filter compiler engine for hassle-free visibility
- Architectural support for line speeds from 1Gbps to 100Gbps in a highly scalable design
- Open, standards-based integration with the flexibility to use a variety of OpenFlow enabled hardware and virtual switch platforms
- Dynamic repartitioning of switch ports between production switching and visibility enablement to optimize infrastructure utilization
