"Birdwatcher" software packet monitor supporting 100 Gbit/s × 100 million flowsThe Technology for the IP Traffic Measurement with SoftwareNTT Network Innovation Laboratories

The use condition of a network is measured with software.

Currently, it is the mainstream to use the hardware packet monitoring, which is speedy but has a small number of measurement flows and expensive.
Therefore, the replacement with some equivalent software is wanted; however, the measurement throughput with software is 40Gbit/s or lower and, thus, the measurement throughput degrades as the number of flows increase.

• To support 100Gbit/s x 100 million flows
• To observe IPv4/IPv6 packets
• To discriminate the flows by using the IP addresses and port numbers at the transmission source/destination and to measure flow by flow

• To run on Linux systems on physical devices, on virtual machines on the Cloud, etc.
• To measure the traffic tapped/mirrored (This product has the tap function on its own, too.)

NTT Network Innovation Laboratories – Frontier Communication Laboratory