Cubro EX6-3 Network Packet Broker
Hybrid Network Packet Broker
Combining a network switch and a network packet broker
The Packetmaster EX6-3 is a unit from Cubro’s first Hybrid Network Packet Broker family. It combines a packet broker with traditional features of a network switch. Unlike conventional solutions where each component is a separate hardware, this unique setup makes the solution more flexible as the EX6-3 can be used inline and filter out specific traffic and send it to a probe.
The EX6-3 also touts four x 10G SFP+ interfaces. The option to close-filter, as well as session-aware load balancing keep slower tools relevant even in 10G speed infrastructures. Your legacy fiber standards are also supported and can handle traffic such as 100BaseSX or 100Base-FX. You’ll find that the EX6-3 helps bridge the gap between fiber and copper and between 10/100/1000 links and 10G.
- Aggregates, filters and load-balances traffic from 10 Gbps links to multiple 1 Gbps monitoring tools
- forty-eight x 10/100/1000 Base-X (SFP) ports
- 4 x 1/10 Gbps (SFP/SFP+)
- Traffic mods up to layer 4 are supported, as well as changing, removing and adding VLAN and GRE tags/tunnels
- Up to 4500 parallel rules
- IPv6 support
- See Data Sheet for complete specifications
The EX6-3 is ideal in mixed-media situations when copper-based tools must access fiber-based network infrastructures. Forty-eight SFP interfaces offer more than sufficient connectivity for all of your copper- and fiber-based tools and tapped network links.