Packet Trakker™
available on XPliant® switches, delivers comprehensive telemetry to increase
network efficiency and improve application performance
SAN JOSE, CA – March 20, 2018 – Cavium™, Inc.
(NASDAQ: CAVM), a leading provider of semiconductor products that enable secure
and intelligent processing for enterprise, data center, cloud, wired and
wireless networking, today announced the availability of Packet Trakker, a
programmable network telemetry suite supported by Cavium’s XPliant family of
programmable Ethernet switches.
The need to manage the interaction between network
infrastructure resources and constantly changing application workloads to
maintain data center performance has never been more important. Within the
XPliant software defined networking framework, Packet Trakker enables
comprehensive data center infrastructure performance management. Networks built
with XPliant switches can now deploy Packet Trakker to provide the following
operational benefits:
- Maintenance
of a detailed history of switch resource utilization data and network
performance logging that is used to perform performance validation.
- Exportation
of detailed real-time switch utilization and network performance data that
can be used to identify network resource contention patterns and isolate
which workloads are causing resource contention.
- Enabling
the use of programmable instrumentation data gathering contexts that
enable fine grained control of how telemetry information is organized for
consumption by visualization tools and analytics engines.
- Monitoring
of system health and immediately alarms system management applications to
circumstances that can cause data center performance degradation and
equipment failure.
- Microburst
detection and identification of flows that destabilize application
performance.
- Tracking
of latency fluctuations that negatively impact application behavior
predictability.
- Detection
of packet loss that is destructive to applications performance, which can
be avoided through notification of pre-congestion in transmit queues.
- Identification
of inconsistent configurations or packet processing exceptions.
Packet Trakker integrates with Network Operating Systems (NOS)
and analytics engines, to deliver a comprehensive set of telemetry features
that monitor network status in real-time and at scale. This technology assists
data center network operators in dynamic remediation operations that
continuously improve network efficiency and application quality of experience.
Furthermore, the XPliant programmable switch architecture is future proofed for
the continuously evolving world of Software-Defined Networking.
“I am pleased with the amount of positive feedback we continue
to receive from customers utilizing Packet Trakker hardware acceleration to
monitor networks more closely and accurately than legacy solutions,” said Eric
Hayes, VP/GM Switching Platform Group at Cavium. “I am excited to see how the
flexibility of the XPliant Packet Architecture will further innovation of
real-time granular telemetry in order to reliably deploy new network services.”
“Packet Trakker is an intriguing powerful technology to address
some of the critical challenges in today’s networks,” says Gavin Cato, Senior
Vice President for Networking Development Engineering at Dell EMC. “Packet
Trakker deployed on Dell EMC switches such as the S5148-ON has the ability to
provide deeper insights into device resources and advance network analytics for
better network operations.”
“Packet Trakker programmable telemetry accelerates development
of new innovative solutions for mobile network quality analysis and real-time
diagnostics,” says Dr. Kang-Won Lee, SVP, Head of Software R&D Center, SK
Telecom. “We believe it significantly improves the network visibility that
leads to improvements of reliability, performance and utilization
efficiency."
“Packet Trakker addresses some of the most critical challenges
operators face today in managing their networks,” said Seamus Crehan, president
of Crehan Research. “Detailed real-time
visibility and network remediation based on XPliant programmable telemetry
capabilities provide key tools for automated self-healing solutions, which is
the next step to increasing network uptime and lowering OpEx.”
Availability
The XPliant Packet Trakker is available now to customers and partners.
The XPliant Packet Trakker is available now to customers and partners.
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About Cavium
Cavium, Inc. (NASDAQ: CAVM), offers a broad portfolio of infrastructure solutions for compute, security, storage, switching, connectivity and baseband processing. Cavium’s highly integrated multi-core SoC products deliver software compatible solutions across low to high performance points enabling secure and intelligent functionality in Enterprise, Data Center and Service Provider Equipment. Cavium processors and solutions are supported by an extensive ecosystem of operating systems, tools, application stacks, hardware-reference designs and other products. Cavium is headquartered in San Jose, CA with design centers in California, Massachusetts, India, Israel, China and Taiwan.
Cavium, Inc. (NASDAQ: CAVM), offers a broad portfolio of infrastructure solutions for compute, security, storage, switching, connectivity and baseband processing. Cavium’s highly integrated multi-core SoC products deliver software compatible solutions across low to high performance points enabling secure and intelligent functionality in Enterprise, Data Center and Service Provider Equipment. Cavium processors and solutions are supported by an extensive ecosystem of operating systems, tools, application stacks, hardware-reference designs and other products. Cavium is headquartered in San Jose, CA with design centers in California, Massachusetts, India, Israel, China and Taiwan.
Media Contact:
Angel Atondo
Sr. Marketing Communications Manager
Telephone: +1 408-943-7417
Email: angel.atondo@cavium.com
Angel Atondo
Sr. Marketing Communications Manager
Telephone: +1 408-943-7417
Email: angel.atondo@cavium.com