POLATIS TECHNOLOGY PARTNERS
Integrated Management
The combined automated solution utilizes NetQuest’s Alpine Patrol orchestration platform to manage NetQuest Interceptor appliances and the high-density optical circuit switches from HUBER+SUHNER Polatis. Individual optical fibers can be physically tapped and monitored by NetQuest through the POLATIS optical switch. Changes can be made in real-time instantly from one management console.
Previously, NetQuest Interceptors were limited in the number of fibers they
could monitor by the number of physical ports on the appliance, typically
with a maximum of 8-10 input connections. The joint surveillance solution
can now be used to cycle through hundreds, or even thousands, of optical
fibers and perform a full automated network survey effectively revealing the
key signaling attributes of each of the optical communication signals. This
network survey, or auto-discovery, of the optical network is a critical function
that NetQuest is uniquely capable of revealing. The Interceptors can provide
the following discovery information for each optical signal:The combined automated solution utilizes NetQuest’s Alpine Patrol orchestration platform to manage NetQuest Interceptor appliances and the high-density optical circuit switches from HUBER+SUHNER Polatis. Individual optical fibers can be physically tapped and monitored by NetQuest through the POLATIS optical switch. Changes can be made in real-time instantly from one management console.
- Network/Fiber ID and signal presence
- Optical wavelength (i.e. ITU channel 16, etc.)
- Signal type (i.e. STM-64, 100GbE, OTU4, etc.)
- OTN and SONET/SDH channelization structure including transport OH
- Geo location and path ID (i.e. Russia to Brazil, etc.)
- Transport protocol and UDP port detection (i.e. GFP, POS, Ethernet, etc.)
Alpine Patrol is constantly storing this survey information and tracking any changes to the network provisioning. This is especially critical while monitoring today’s adaptive networks where signaling paths are constantly being re-provisioned to react to traffic bottlenecks and other network impairments. With a detailed network survey database intact covering the entire transport network, critical traffic intercept decisions can be made instantly based on real-time intelligence and these operations can be performed without a need for manual intervention. Based on the particular mission, traffic intercept options are available at varying network layers including an entire fiber, individual traffic segments or via detailed filtering rules targeting individual IP addresses or other traffic related parameters.
Why Deploy the NetQuest / POLATIS Solution?
The increasing damage being done by cyber related crimes is presenting global leaders with a crisis that demands to be combatted with innovative solutions. The NetQuest and POLATIS mass surveillance solution provides unique network visibility via a layer of automation that efficiently translates analysis of big data optical networks into actionable intelligence. With POLATIS switches providing expanded visibility, NetQuest Alpine Patrol can provide comprehensive optical network analytics, both real-time and historical, using metadata extracted across the entire transport network. These analytics can be combined with analysis of individual IP flows to form a threat detection algorithm that accesses a much wider and deeper set of information for finding network anomalies and enables more intelligent network security decisions.
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The driver that interfaces CloudShell to Polatis switches is available on the Quali Support Portal
The integration of Polatis and Quali allows Quali CloudShell software to control Polatis all-optical switching products, providing the ability to reconfigure Layer 1 resources dynamically from anywhere in the world. Further, it enables the orchestration needed to seamlessly manage higher layer network elements, and other connected equipment, from a single control point. Polatis switches ultra-low loss and superior optical performance enable them to be used in a wide range of different network applications with virtually no latency and minimal system impairments.
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