Network Monitoring Appliances

The Cisco DNA Traffic Telemetry Appliance is a telemetry sensor platform that is used to generate telemetry from mirrored IP network traffic and share it with Cisco DNA Center for application and endpoint analytics. Network traffic is received from switches and routers via Switched Port Analyzer (SPAN) mirroring and fed into the Cisco DNA Traffic Telemetry Appliance mirroring interfaces. The appliance analyzes the received traffic to produce a telemetry stream for Cisco DNA Center that is sent via the appliance's network interface.

The platform supports 20-Gbps sustained forwarding data traffic through the chassis and comes in a 1-RackUnit (1RU) form factor. The appliance has six built-in 1-Gbps Small Form Factor (SFP)-only interfaces (these do not support SFP+), and two built-in 10-Gbps Enhanced SFP (SFP+) interfaces (these support only the 10-Gbps rate) that support Synchronous Ethernet (SyncE). The device comes with one copper Ethernet 10/100/1000 Mbps network management port and supports storage extension through the network interface module (NIM) slot.

Features and benefits

The Cisco DNA Traffic Telemetry Appliance complements endpoint and application analytics solutions on Cisco DNA Center. The fixed, 1RU form factor and Cisco IOS® XE software-based device management make it an easy fit into existing network deployments. Cisco DNA Center manages the appliance in a manner similar to the way it manages network devices such as switches and wireless devices.

Cisco supplies Cisco Digital Network Architecture (DNA) Center in the form of a rack-mountable, physical appliance. The second-generation Cisco DNA Center appliance consists of either a Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) C220 M5 small form-factor (SFF) chassis or Cisco UCS C480 M5 chassis, both with the addition of one Intel X710-DA2 network interface card (NIC) and one Intel X710-DA4 NIC. Six versions of the second-generation appliance are available:

• 44-core appliance: Cisco part number DN2-HW-APL
• 44-core promotional appliance: Cisco part number DN2-HW-APL-U
• 56-core appliance: Cisco part number DN2-HW-APL-L
• 56-core promotional appliance: Cisco part number DN2-HW-APL-L-U
• 112-core appliance: Cisco part number DN2-HW-APL-XL
• 112-core promotional appliance: Cisco part number DN2-HW-APL-XL-U