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Data Sheet

Extreme Networks Session Director

Software-Driven Session Intelligence for Scalable,

Agile Network Visibility

The world’s leading service providers increasingly use an array of out-

of-band analytics tools to monitor, orchestrate, secure and monetize

their networks. To function more eciently, these analytics tools depend

on specialized “network visibility” infrastructure – commonly known as

Network Packet Brokers (NPBs) – to aggregate, replicate, and forward

relevant network trac ﬂows to them for analysis.

Exponential growth in IP trac is driving mobile network operators to scale

their monitoring and analytics infrastructure. However, the escalating costs

to achieve scale are not sustainable. Therefore, service providers need new

options to extract greater productivity from their existing monitoring tools

and maximize returns on their investments. They also need to modernize

their networks and improve service agility to remain competitive in the

marketplace. To this end, service providers are adopting Software-Deﬁned

Networking (SDN), Network Functions Virtualization (NFV), and API-

driven automation – and they expect their network visibility infrastructure

to support these technologies. With Extreme Session Director, service

providers can meet these challenges and cost-eectively scale their

monitoring and analytics infrastructure.

Highlights

• Designed for 4G/LTE, 5G Mobile

Network Operators, and IoT scale

• Maximizes utilization of existing

monitoring solutions with subscriber-

aware network trac load balancing,

ﬁltering, and sampling

• Enables monitoring solutions to scale

out beyond native boundaries by

ooading control and data plane

correlation from analytics probes

• Separates data and voice trac to

enable best-of-breed monitoring

solution deployment

• Adapts to fast-changing monitoring

needs with software-driven agility

and API for workﬂow automation

Summary of content (5 pages)

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Data Sheet Highlights • Designed for 4G/LTE, 5G Mobile Network Operators, and IoT scale • Maximizes utilization of existing monitoring solutions with subscriberaware network traffic load balancing, filtering, and sampling • Enables monitoring solutions to scale out beyond native boundaries by offloading control and data plane correlation from analytics probes • Separates data and voice traffic to enable best-of-breed monitoring solution deployment • Adapts to fast-changing monitoring needs with software-dr
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Figure 1: Extreme Networks Session Director deployment architecture. Network Visibility and Expert Traffic Optimization at Scale Extreme Session Director is a scalable software application deployed on commodity server hardware. It works in tandem with Extreme Networks MLXe or Extreme Networks SLX® Packet Brokers to deliver mobility-aware network traffic correlation, filtering, and load-balancing capabilities. See Figure 1.
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Software-Driven Agility Session Director Specifications With its agile, software-defined architecture, Session Director speeds up scale and feature additions while reducing acquisition and deployment cycles. This enables mobile operators to efficiently adapt their visability infrastructure to changing monitoring needs. In addition, Session Director’s a RESTful API enables workflow automation and third-party integration.
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Extreme Networks Session Director Ordering Information Part Number Description BR-NVA-SD7100-P-01 Extreme Session Director (SD) 7100 feature bundle perpetual license for 40 Gbps of total traffic BR-NVA-SD8100-P-01 Extreme Session Director (SD) 8100 feature bundle perpetual license for 40 Gbps of total traffic BR-NVA-SD8200-P-01 Extreme Session Director (SD) 8200 feature bundle perpetual license for 40 Gbps of total traffic BR-NVA-SD9100-P-01 Extreme Session Director (SD) 9100 feature bundle perpetu
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Extreme Network Visibility Solutions Acquisition Options That Match Balance Sheet Objectives Network Visibility solutions help mobile operators monitor, secure, analyze, and monetize their physical and virtual networks at scale, as they begin their journey to 5G. With programmable hardware packet brokers and the industry’s first full-featured software packet broker, Extreme Networks delivers a best-in-class network visibility solution built for the most demanding networks.