ANAGRAN FLOW MANAGEMENT

A RADICAL NEW ROUTER

NIYAS BASHEER K
EPAHECS036

Government Engineering College

Sreekrishnapuram
Palakkad

November 25, 2010

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 CONTENTS

Evolution
Features of Flow Manager
Fast Flow Technology
Intelligent Flow Delivery
Behavioral Traffic Control
Comparison with Packet Router
Why Flow Manager?
Scope for Additional Work
Conclusion

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 EVOLUTION

Rapidly expanding internet traffic

An explosion in voice and video applications
Existing system IP packet routers:
Considers data as small independent packets
Treats video and audio packets as loose data entities
During congestion random discard of packets
To overcome this Anagran flow manager was introduced

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 FEATURES OF FLOW MANAGER

Fast Flow Technology

Intelligent Flow Delivery

Behavioral Traffic Control

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 FAST FLOW TECHNOLOGY

In Fast flow Technology traffic management and forwarding packets are

based on flows

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 HOW FLOW IS IDENTIFIED?

Flow is identified using packet header

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 WORKING OF FAST FLOW TECHNOLOGY

Packet Routing:
1 Receive packet
2 Basic security check
3 Apply QoS and ACL rules
4 Compute next hop and route to o/p port
Fast Flow Technology:
1 Receive Packet, look up flow
2 If first packet process it and route
3 Else switch to o/p port
4 Manage flow rate
5 Update flow status
6 Transmit

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 INTELLIGENT FLOW DELIVERY

Flow manager maintains information of every flow by monitoring

output load on each port
When congestion occurs ,since it has information of each flow,
packets will be discarded only from a single flow
Flow manager protects stream based transmissions like videos, audio
etc
Flow manager detects P2P because it relies on many long duration
flows per user and can thereby limit their transmissions to any rate
you need

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 For TCP traffic, IFD ensures Equitable use of network capacity for all
traffic based on flow class

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 For UDP traffic flawless quality by automatically invoking Call
Admission Control(CAC) whenever incoming stream threatens
existing streams

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 BEHAVIORAL TRAFFIC CONTROL

BTC basically ”watches” every flow

Compare each flows behavior with set of operator defined rules per
flow class
BTC can identify ”suspect flows” and take corrective actions
BTC provides network the ability to optimally manage all traffic in
real time by class

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 Unlike common traffic control mechanisms, BTC doesn’t halt or
eliminate any traffic types

It manages entire traffic mix to allow all forms of network traffic to

”peacefully co-exist”

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 COMPARISON WITH PACKET ROUTER

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 WHY FLOW MANAGER?

Major cost reduction through full efficiency.

Insure quality voice and video even mixed with data
Eliminate delay
Protect time critical traffic
Provide accurate flow records for some or all flows
Reduce power

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 SCOPE FOR ADDITIONAL WORK

Precedence priority for emergencies and load control

Security Control

Strong Authentication of User, Weaker Securing of Flow

Recognize DoS attacks and Block Bots
Recognize Virus Attacks and Block them

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 CONCLUSION

Manages rich media network traffic based on flows rather than

individual packets
Allows instant classification and assignment of appropriat policies per
traffic type
Improved bandwidth utilization
Increased throughput
Protection of Stream based Transmission

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 REFERENCES

1 white papers Flow Rate Management and TCP Rate Control With
IFD [Intelligent Flow Delivery].
2 http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/wg-dir.html
3 Technical details on flow management and the Anagran FR-1000,
http://www.anagran.com.
4 http://www.packet.cc.
5 www.netseminar.stanford.edu/seminars/01 17 08.ppt
6 spectrum.ieee.org/computing/networks/a-radical-new-router/0.
7 www.packet.cc/files/IFD2c.pdf.
8 net.educause.edu/Elements/Attachments/rfi/vendors/ anagran.pdf.

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 THANK YOU.

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