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NoviBroker

Programmable packet brokering for filtering, aggregation, replication, and tool load balancing at line rate.

Control the path from network traffic to operational tools.

NoviBroker uses the FlowAgent pipeline to turn incoming feeds into precise streams of interest. Each stage can refine traffic or use an earlier output to create a new aggregate.

At the end of the pipeline, the Toolsets agent can forward to one port, mirror traffic to several destinations, or distribute volume across tools with different capacities.

Filter Match packet fields, encapsulated headers, and packet shape.
Aggregate Build reusable streams across a four-stage pipeline.
Distribute Mirror or load balance traffic across visibility and security tools.

Build the pipeline. Watch the platform. Follow the traffic.

Move through the three views that define how NoviBroker is configured, operated, and investigated.

NoviBroker with FlowAgent Pipeline

FlowAgent provides fine-grained control over streams of interest through four processing stages. A stream created in one stage can feed later stages, allowing operators to assemble more complex aggregates without rebuilding the same logic.

The final Toolsets agent directs output to a single port, mirrors it to multiple destinations, or applies weighted load balancing so each analysis or security tool receives an appropriate share of traffic.

NoviBroker with FlowAgent Pipeline, slide 1 of 3

Software control on white-box switching.

NoviBroker runs on Tofino and Tofino2-based platforms with interface options from 10G through 400G and core throughput up to 12.8 Tbps.

Source supported Edgecore hardware directly or as a software bundle.
Choose perpetual or annual NoviBroker software licensing.
Use standard transceiver modules across supported interface speeds.

What NoviBroker provides and what it changes.

Switch between the platform capabilities and the operational outcomes they support.

Multi-terabit throughput, flexible port configurations in a small footprint

  • Up to 12.8 Tbps non-blocking core switching
  • Supports a wide range of interface speeds, including 10G, 25G, 40G, 50G, 100G and 400G with industry standard transceiver modules
  • Intel Tofino and Tofino2 options

New FlowAgent™ pipeline with multiple agents to map TAPs to Tools

  • 4 stage pipeline for flexible aggregations and filtering of the streams
  • Each stage allows a finer grain flow aggregation
  • Each stage can register to a stream output of a prior stage to create new aggregate interests
  • Filters by packet fields or packet shape (for example 2 MPLS tags)
  • Weighted Load balancing and mirroring of output traffic to tools with a tool set.

Easy to Use

  • Configure aggregation streams using object-oriented Agents
  • Do not need to use complex bit-offsets to program “interests”
  • Supports both remote API calls and local CLI for pipeline configuration

Competitive Price point

  • Based on white-box OCP compliant hardware you can source through NoviFlow or your own supply channels
  • Perpetual and annual software licensing is available for the NoviBroker software

We can do what your current vendor won’t

  • Software Programmable Parser
  • Rapid response to customer requirements

Program streams without calculating byte offsets.

FlowAgent uses readable, object-based configuration so the traffic policy remains understandable as the pipeline becomes more capable.

Object-based Agents Define streams and aggregates without encoding every interest as a raw offset.
Encapsulated traffic Match outer and inner headers when traffic is carried inside VLAN, MPLS, or other encapsulations.
Open control paths Configure the pipeline locally through the CLI or remotely through the northbound API.
Reusable stage outputs Feed an earlier stream into a later stage to refine or recombine traffic.
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