Smart Aggregation
Achieving superior network visibility through a scalable, distributed architecture
RADCOM Smart Aggregation are CPU based appliances designed with the compute and memory resources required for intensive network data analysis. As modern networks introduce new protocols, encapsulations, and variable packet header formats, achieving true traffic visibility increasingly requires deep inspection of both packet headers and payloads. These demands often exceed the parsing capabilities of switch-based packet brokers, creating the need for more advanced, software driven processing.
RADCOM Smart Aggregation provides full flexibility for packet header parsing, payload analysis, and advanced packet manipulation. Capabilities such as IPv6 filtering within GTP tunneling, regex-based matching, deep packet inspection, and application-level metadata extraction are optimally delivered on CPU based platforms and are integral to RADCOM’s Smart Aggregation offering.
RADCOM Smart Aggregation is pre integrated with the RADCOM ACE Service Assurance Platform, delivering a unified approach to network visibility and assurance. This tight integration enables intelligent, automated traffic processing across physical, virtual, and cloud environments, ensuring high-quality data delivery for real-time analytics, troubleshooting, and customer experience assurance.
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- Automatic network topology discovery with continuous learning
- Subscriber-aware and application-aware load balancing for optimal tool efficiency
- Flexible traffic sampling to reduce data volumes while preserving insight accuracy
- Advanced whitelisting and filtering to forward only relevant traffic
- Centralized policy management and configuration through RADCOM ACE
Benefits
Full Software and
Hardware Disaggregation
High Performance
Regex Matching
Massive Scale
Filtering
DPDK Accelerated
Processing
Smart Capture
and Replay
RADCOM Smart Aggregation enables deep inspection of packet headers and payloads, delivering full flexibility for advanced parsing, filtering, and packet manipulation, including IPv6 filtering within GTP tunnels, regex-based matching, deep packet inspection, and application-level metadata extraction, capabilities that exceed the limits of switch-based packet brokers and are essential for achieving true end to end traffic visibility.
Features
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RADCOM Smart Aggregation session tracing provides precise, end-to-end visibility into individual subscriber and application sessions across the network. By intelligently identifying, correlating, and tracking related packets in real time, RADCOM Smart Aggregation ensures that complete session flows are delivered to the appropriate monitoring and analytics tools. This capability enables faster root-cause analysis, more accurate troubleshooting, and deeper insight into service behavior, even in high-speed, high-volume environments.
RADCOM Smart Aggregation data masking protects sensitive information while preserving the operational value of network data. The feature intelligently identifies confidential fields within packet headers and payloads, such as subscriber identifiers or personal data. It masks them in real time before traffic is forwarded to monitoring and analytics tools. This ensures compliance with data privacy and security requirements without limiting visibility or troubleshooting capabilities.
Network Packet Brokers vs Smart Aggregation
RADCOM Network Packet Brokers deliver high port density and cost-efficient traffic aggregation, making them ideal for collecting and distributing large volumes of network traffic at scale. RADCOM Smart Aggregation complements this by adding advanced, software-based processing on standard COTS servers, enabling intelligent capabilities such as subscriber-aware load balancing, sampling, and whitelisting. In a typical deployment, both are used together. RADCOM Network Packet Brokers handle high-speed traffic ingestion, while RADCOM Smart Aggregation applies deep, flexible processing. This combined architecture gives customers the best of both worlds: massive scale and intelligent traffic control, delivered through a highly efficient and cost-effective design.
Choose The Right Smart Aggregation for Your Network
RADCOM Smart Aggregation platforms provide intelligent, software-based traffic aggregation and filtering to support high-performance network visibility and service assurance. The portfolio scales from compact deployments to high-throughput environments, offering flexible port configurations, deep filtering capacity, and efficient packet capture to meet the needs of modern physical, virtual, and cloud networks.
| SA 100 | SA 200 | SA 400 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Throughput | 100 Gbps | 200 Gbps | 400 Gbps | |
| Port Density | Copper 10/100/1000 | up to 8 | up to 8 | up to 8 |
| 1G | up to 8 | up to 8 | up to 8 | |
| 10G | up to 8 | up to 8 | up to 8 | |
| 25G | up to 2 | up to 4 | up to 4 | |
| 40G | up to 1 | up to 4 | up to 4 | |
| 50G | up to 1 | up to 2 | up to 2 | |
| 100G | - | up to 1 | up to 2 | |
| Number of Filters | Filters | - | 1,000,000 | 1,000,000 |
| Capture | 3 Gbps | up to 20 Gbps | up to 20 Gbps |
