P10 (Security Appliance)
High Performance Traffic Inspection, Monitoring, and Capture at 10 Gbps
The Force10 P-Series 10 Gigabit inspection appliance is the first to deliver comprehensive deep packet inspection for line-rate 10 Gigabit per second applications. Based on patented Dynamic Parallel Inspection (DPI) technology, the P-Series uses an innovative, new processing architecture to simultaneously apply thousands of rules to each packet. Through the use of an FPGA-based rule engine, the P-Series can also dynamically reprogram hardware rules to deliver predictable performance and total signature flexibility under all traffic conditions.
Using an open framework, the P-Series supports Open Source and customizable network monitoring applications, enabling users to specify capture and filtering policies from public domain signatures, standard network monitoring libraries, or user-defined custom rule bases.
Key P-Series Applications
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High speed programmable network probe delivers inspection and flexible capture rules for lawfully authorized electronic surveillance and CALEA applications
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10 Gigabit stateful filtering applications
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Pre-processing and filtering capabilities to scale existing solutions to 10 Gigabit performance in the core or at the WAN edge
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Open application program interface for creating custom monitoring, packet capture, and network security applications
Key P-Series Features
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Line-rate 10 Gbps deep packet inspection with support for jumbo frames
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Predictable performance regardless of traffic conditions or number of rules
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Support for both active inline or passive monitor/capture deployments
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Dynamically write rules directly into hardware for greater flexibility in responding to malicious traffic
Performance
The P-Series runs at full line-rate for 10 GbE network links with full deep-packet inspection and stateful signatures/policies enabled.
Predictable Performance
As a pure hardware-based inspection system, the P-Series is inherently 100% predictable in how operations are performed and always compiles a rule base that runs at line-rate. This leads to identical performance, throughput, and latency under any traffic load, and with any number of rules applied.
Manageability
The P-Series is managed with a simple text-based rule management screen that enables users to:
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Start and stop the interface; turn each rule on and off
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Manage runtime parameters such as packet truncation, flow length, and timeout
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Set capture/ignore and block/forward policies for each rule
P-Series Specifications
- Interfaces
- Two line-rate 10 GbE XFP sensing ports Two line-rate GbE SFP mirroring ports
- Inspection Throughput
- 20 Gbps from 64 Byte to 9,000+ byte frames per system
- Inspection Rate
- 14,880,952 pps per port
- Maximum Latency
- 2 microseconds
- Number of Flows
- 8,000,000 per system
- Capture Rate
- 1,000,000 pps per system
- Full Header, Payload Inspection
- IPv4
- Power
- 100 - 240 VAC
- Management
- 2 10/100Base-T management ports
1 RJ-45 console port
- Height
- 1 Rack Unit