SAN JOSE, Calif., March 20, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- 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.
For more information about Cavium's Packet Trakker programmable
network telemetry suite, visit:
https://cavium.com/news/cavium-announces-packet-trakker-a-programmable-network-telemetry-suite
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.
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