Interface Masters Portfolio Presentation

Interface Masters Confidential Information

Interface Masters Technologies

Hanan Klainer

2015


www.interfacemasters.com

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Key facts:

• Private held company

• Established in 1996.

• HQ in US, San Jose, California

• Profitable and growing

• More than 100+ products

• Engineering (R&D) oriented

• Flexible and reliable

Interface Masters is one of the leaders and innovators in

networking and network visibilty solutions.



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Interface Masters is commited to providing high-quality manufacturing. To

ensure that, we have a close relationships with leading Silicon vendors:

Our team combined has over 100 years of engineering experience and

expertise in development of high-speed networking systems.



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Extensive QA process which guarantees high-quality products

including:

• Highly-Accelerated Life Testing - HALT

• Functional test

• 48 hours of burn in

• Power cycle test

• Four corner

• Extensive reliability testing



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Leading OEM supplier for many IT and Telco market leaders:



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Strong Technology Alliances



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Product Portfoliofrom TAP to Packet Master



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Network Visibility

Data Access

TAP’s and Bypass Switches

Packet Master

Aggregation, Filtering

Load-Balancing

DPI

Data NetworkingSoftware Defined Networks

NICs, Offload NICs

Data Encryption

Networking SystemsLow to High End systems

Multi Core CPUs

MIPS, ARM, PPC and X86

based



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Network Visibility

Data Access

TAP’s and Bypass Switches

Packet Master

Aggregation, Filtering

Load-Balancing

DPI

Data NetworkingSoftware Defined Networks

NICs, Offload NICs

Data Encryption

Networking SystemLow to High End systems

Multi Core CPUs

MIPS, ARM, PPC and X86

based



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Network Taps

Passive

Active

Completely passive

Copper or Fiber

Power split

No IP address – invisible to attacks

Plug & Play

No power required

Provides copy of traffic at any time

Copper or Fiber

Packet injection capabilities

Combo – Packet Master capabilities

Can provide aggregated mirrored traffic to multiple tools

Regenerates the signal

No intensity loss

Supports management and debug options



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Key facts:

• Passive Fiber TAP‘s

• Up to 25 segments in 1U

• No power supply

• Plug-and-Play

• Support for 1G, 10G, 40G and 100G

Flagship product: Niagara 3225 - High density Fiber TAP



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Active TAP



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Flagship product - 3416: Tap or Aggregation Tap

• Split TAP and Link aggregation

• Packet Injection capabilities

• Many-to-one TAP support

• One-to-Many TAP support

1-4 segments Aggregate all

segmentsCopper, Fiber, any segmentDisplay



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Flagship product - 3218: TAP and Packet Broker COMBO

Key facts:• Up to 4 TAP segments

• Up to 8 Packet Broker ports

• Any-to-Any configuration

• Aggregation, Regeneration, Mapping

• L2-L4 Filtering (IP, MAC, VLAN...)

• Session-aware load-balancing

• Packet slicing and more

Tap segmentsPacket

Master

ports



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Bypass Switches



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• Suited for Inline Monitoring applications

• Intelligent Active Bypass Configurable

• High resolution HeartBeat

• Supports 1G, 10G, 40G and 100G solutions

• Supports up to 16 segments in one system

• Certified by major security vendors

• All combinations (fiber, copper) supported!

• Installed at Telcos, MSOs and ISPs



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1-4 segments Tap port,

copy of all segmentsCopper, Fiber, any segmentDisplay

Flagship product 1G: Niagara 2299 Bypass Switch

Key facts:• Up to 4 segments in 1U chassis

• Built in TAP functionality

• Custom heartbeat configurations:

• Heartbeat pattern

• Heartbeat frequency



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Packet MasterNetwork Packet Brokers from 1G to 100G



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• PacketMaster – Network Packet Broker incl:

• Aggregation

• Regeneration

• L2-L4 Filtering

• Load-Balancing (session aware)

• Packet Slicing

• Tunnel handling

• Supports 1G, 10G, 40G and 100G

• Various port density:

• 8, 16, 24, 48 and 72 ports 1G/10G

• Up to 30 x 40G ports in 1U chassis!

* all advanced features included – no licensing needed!



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Platform for every need!

• Management

• GUI - HTTPS

• CLI – SSH

• Authentication

• TACACS+

• Radius

• Firmware update

• HTTPS

• SCP

Niagara 42xx Family - PacketMaster



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Flagship Product:

Niagara 4248 familyPlatform for every need!

From 8 up to 48 SFP/SFP+ ports

All features enabled!(no licensing necessary)

• Aggregation

• L2-L4 filtering

• Load-balancing

• Packet Slicing

• MPLS and Q-in-Q

• CLI and Web GUIUp to 960Tbps



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Niagara 4248 - hybridPlatform for every need!

From 8 up to 72 SFP/SFP+ ports

+ 24 x 1G or 10G copper ports!


• Aggregation

• L2-L4 filtering

• Load-balancing

• Packet Slicing

• MPLS and Q-in-Q

• CLI and Web GUI



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TAP layer4 x 10G links input(8 ports total, 2 Rx and 2 Tx)

3 x Database Monitoring

in load-balanced group

acting as one tool!

SIEM

Intrusion Detection System

Email security

File security

Connected in a group, with redundancy

Packet Master Layer



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Link1 - 10G

RxTx

Link2 - 10G

RxTx

IDS1

IDS1

IDS1 IDS1

IDS1

IDS1

Using Hybrid versionLB Group 2

IDS1

IDS1

IDS1 IDS1

IDS1

IDS1

LB Group 1

1G copper ports



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• All features from large Packet Brokers incl.

• Very cost-effective and price competitive

Now covering small-medium segment



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• Up to 8 field configurable modules

• Up to 64 SFP+ ports

• Each module can be:

• TAP, Bypass or PacketMaster

• All advanced features included and configurable!

Niagara 2842/6 – PacketMaster+(Swiss Army Knife)



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Intuitive and easy-to-use GUI



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Flagship product: Niagara 4272 - 72 x SFP/SFP+ ports in 1U!


• Aggregation, L2-L4 filtering

• Load-balancing, Packet Slicing

• MPLS and Q-in-Q



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• Aggregation

• L2-L4 filtering

• Session aware load-balancing

• Packet Slicing

• MPLS and Q-in-Q

• CLI and Web GUI

100G platform

1x100G port48x10G ports

1x100G port24x40G ports



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100G supportNiagara 4248-1C 100G Bandwidth Use Case



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Deep Packet Inspection:

• Application identification

• 50k complex L7 filters

• VoIP balancing

• Handles 20Gbps

• Network Analytics

• L7 application usage

• Per IP traffic statistics

Niagara 5004



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Network appliance performing:

• Time stamping

• De-duplication

• Load balancing with tunnel parsing

• Fabric Path and Overlay Tag stripping

Handles up to 40Gbps of traffic

• Management and Serial for configuration

Niagara 5002



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X2

UE

UE

PDN-GW

S11 S5/S8

SGSN

GGSN

S-GW

S3

S4

S12

HSS

S6a

PCRF

Gn

PSTN

Iu-PS

Internet

SGi

Gx

S1

MME

LTEUse case



New Things Coming

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• Centralized Management System end of 2015

• 2847 Modular 100G system

• 8x10G ports De-duplication

• In Server De-duplication Q1-2016



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Recent Success Stories

Romania

Slovakia

BelgiumAustria



Competitive Advantages

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• World Leader in Bypass Technology

• Hybrid Appliances

• Bypass/TAP/PacketMaster Consolidation

• Highest port density in a 1U in the market

• Non-Blocking technology(including Tunneling, MPLS, VLAN)

• Modular solution 2846/7

• Full Duplex for all ports

• All options are available(no SW licensing)

• The most price competitive systems in the visibility market



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• Large number of products in portfolio

• No licensing – all features included• High quality: 18 months HW & SW warranty included

• 10G copper supported, 100G supported

• Extreme scalability: from 8 ports up to 72 ports

• High density and high performance products

• Strong R&D – flexible, customer oriented

Winning the deals!



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