Catena is a multi-terabit service chaining, security, load-balancing, analytics and L4-L7 applications integration solution. Eg, Catena can perform these operations at 40 Tbps.
Have you ever found yourself entangled in deploying multiple applications, L4-L7 services, network devices, VMs and Containers? Add multiple departments/tenants sharing those resources, and you have a nightmare! We have solved these and many more use-cases with our latest innovation, Catena.
The solution works with all L4-L7 virtual and physical devices, such as, Firewalls, IPS, IDS, WAAS, DDoS protection, load-balancers, SSL offload engines, network monitoring, etc.
With our patent pending algorithms, Catena allows user to create multiple chains with multiple elements in each chain. User can configure security policies to configure which traffic goes through which chain. An element, could be a cluster of devices, in which case Catena load-balances to the cluster. Catena performs health monitoring and failure handling of devices. Catena performs sophisticated analytics.
The solution is natively embedded into the switch/router, i.e., the user doesn't have to buy any service module or external hardware.
Currently, Cisco Nexus series of switches natively has Catena. Eg, Nexus 7000, 7700 (already shipped), 9000 (Q2, CY 2017) series of switches.
Here are some key points:
Catena allows the user to create, orchestrate and scale an elastic network. It could be a data center, service provider or enterprise network.
A number of customers are deploying Catena.
Here are some of the links:
Catena configuration guide
Catena command reference guide
NetworkWorld lists Catena as Product of the Week.
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