Radisys introduced its FlowEngine TDE-1000 Intelligent Load Balancer for software defined networks (SDN) in both data centers and telecommunications environments.
The TDE-1000 is a 3U platform that delivers wire speed IP packet classification and flow-based load balancing. It is capable of distributing up to 1.2 Tbps of aggregate traffic across any third-party NFV infrastructure. It offloads Layer 2-4 network services, making VNF resource utilization more resource efficient and scalable.
Radisys said that when content and service providers deploy the new TDE-1000 in their network, traffic reaching their application server infrastructure is already pre-screened, leaving more NFV processing capacity for Layer 7 and application processing. This allows additional subscribers and services to use the same compute infrastructure.
Key capabilities include:
- Wirespeed flow classification to rapidly identify traffic,
- Integrated load balancing to intelligently share loads and steer data flows to appropriate VNFs.
- Service chaining with flow affinity to support use cases like Gi-LAN
- SDN control to achieve unprecedented flexibility in new service introduction
