Netgate TNSR: 10G, 25G, 100G WAN ports

VPP+DPDK High-Performance Edge Routing Features

High-performance routers will be needed at the network edge, in network cores, from premise-to-cloud direct connect infrastructure (where available) and even between public or private Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs).

• Bridging

  Bridging connects two networks so that they act as if they are one network. This is commonly used to connect interfaces across different types of links, e.g., Ethernet to VXLAN, or to enable filtering between two segments of the same network.

• Static Routing

  Static routing relies upon a manually-configured routing entry rather than information from a dynamic routing protocol. Static routing and dynamic routing are not mutually exclusive.

• Dynamic Routing

  Dynamic routing enables routers to select paths based upon real-time logical network layout changes. Popular dynamic routing protocols include Border Gateway protocol (BGP), Open Shortest Path First (OSPF), and Routing Information Protocol (RIP).

• BGP

  Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), the routing protocol used by the global internet, finds the best route path by weighing the latest network conditions based on reachability and routing information.

• OSPF

  Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) is an interior gateway protocol that uses a link state routing algorithm to find the best path between a source and destination router. TNSR supports both OSPF v2 (OSPF) and OSPF v3 (OSPF6).

• ECMP

  Equal-cost multi-path (ECMP) is a dynamic routing technique where packet forwarding to a single destination can occur over multiple best paths with equal routing priority.

• Static ARP

  Static Address Resolution Protocol (Static ARP) can be used to manually map an IPv4 network address to a MAC address that will not be removed after a period of non-use.

• BFD

  Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD) is a protocol that can detect link failures within milliseconds, or even microseconds.

• VRF-Lite

  Virtual Routing and Forwarding (VRF) is a feature which uses isolated L3 domains with alternate routing tables for specific interfaces and dynamic routing purposes.

With this configuration, two units act as an “active/passive” cluster with the primary node working as the master unit and the secondary node in a backup role, taking over as needed if the primary node fails.

TNSR edge router provides stellar packet per second and gigabit per second performance for the most demanding secure networking applications.