Keysight Bypass Switches vs. Netgate TNSR

Well suited for layer two networks where you need physical link monitoring as well as service monitoring. In our case, we monitor the ports and services for FireEye by looping traffic via FireEye, and if that packet is not received on the Ixia after sent it will mark the FireEye down. Not suited for any type of "normal" switching or load-balancing.

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Netgate TNSR would be most suitable if you are in need of fast application traffic and quick packet processing. What I like most about Netgate TNSR is that the network interfaces no longer get cut in half or encrypted traffic hauled so you are able to work on your projects swiftly on stable connections. You will however have to make time to familiarize with the command line interface for quick commands.

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• Link state monitoring
• Service monitoring of the stub devices
• Link state propagation
• Battery backup for power loss

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• Has very fast connection setups
• I've never experienced packet processing latencies while using the software.
• It's easy to monitor the routers via SNMP

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• Setup is pretty complex
• Alerting is minimal unless you also purchase the Ixia management server software.

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• Took me a while before I completely got a hold of the complex command line interface.

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F5 while allows the load balancing aspect would not propagate link state as well.

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• While expensive, it has reduced our downtime due to the FireEYE outages and upgrades
• Increased our cost for the FireEye which is really a negative of the FireEye and not the Ixia.

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• We deploy the third party hardware on AWS with great flexibility
• Fast packet processing
• Superb router performance without needing ASICs.

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