Feature Comparison

PacketLion Network Packet Brokers
FEATURE Comparison Matrix

Product Specification Model NX-PBPL-1S NX-PBPL-1M NX-PBPL-1L NX-PBPL-2M NX-PBPL-2L NX-PBPL-3XL
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Switch Packet Processor Broadcom Trident 2+
(BCM56864)		 Broadcom Qumeran MX
(BCM88375)		 Broadcom Trident 3
(BCM56873)		 Broadcom Tomahawk
(BCM56960)		 Broadcom Trident 3
(BCM56870)		 Broadcom Tomahawk III
(BCM56980)
Dimensions 44.3 x 47.3 x 4.34 cm 44.3 x 47.3 x 4.34 cm 43.84 x 53.6 x 4.35 cm 43.8 x 51.5 x 4.35 cm 43.8 x 51.5 x 4.35 cm 43.84 x 53.6 x 4.31 cm
Network Interfaces 48 SFP+: 10/100/1000M copper, or
1/2.5/10 Gbe/GbaseT,
6 QSFP 40 Gbe or 24 x 1/2.5/10 Gbe		 48 SFP+: 10/100/1000M copper, or
1/2.5/10 Gbe/GbaseT,
6 QSFP28 1/10/40/50/100 Gbe,
or
12 x 50 Gbe, or
24 x 1/10/25 Gbe		 48 SFP28: 1/10 Gbe copper, or 1/10/25 Gbe
8 QSFP28 1/10/25/40/50/100 Gbe, or
16 x 50 Gbe, or
32 x 1/10/25 Gbe		 32 QSFP28 40/100 Gbe, or
128 x 1/10/25 Gbe		 32 QSFP28 40/100 Gbe, or
64 x 50 Gbe, or
128 x 1/10/25 Gbe 		32 x QSFP-DD 10/25/50/100/200/400 Gbe, or
64 x 40 Gbe, or
128 x 10/25/50/100 Gbe
Management User interface full coverage
(CLI, Netconf, SNMP, WebUI)		 ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅
Ports MTU 9,400 bytes 9,216 bytes 9,400 bytes 9,400 bytes 9,400 bytes 9,400 bytes
TX queues 12MB 6GB Deep Buffer 32MB 16MB 32MB 64MB
Port Labeling (VLAN tagging) ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅
MPLS stripping ❌ ✅ ✅ ❌ ✅ ❌
PRBS ✅ ❌ ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅
Pre emphasis settings ❌ ❌ ❌ ❌ ❌ ✅
Ignore bad CRC ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅
Rules UDF 2 UDF windows
8/16 and 16 bytes		 2 UDF windows
3/16 and 16 bytes		 up to 15 UDF windows
of 30 bytes in total		 2 UDF windows
of 16 bytes		 up to 15 UDF windows
30 bytes in total		 up to 16 UDF windows
32 bytes in total
Number of filters 8,191 12,288 3,070 1,023 3,070 1,023
HW Exact match IP filters ❌ ❌ 110,000 15,000 110,000 40,000
Rules Classifiers MAC address filtering ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅
Ethertype ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅
Vlan ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅
Inner Vlan ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ ❌
MPLS Labels (4 Labels) and masks ✅ ❌ ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅
DSCP ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅
Protocol Number ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅
L3 fragments ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅
L3 packet length ✅ ❌ ✅ ✅ ✅ ❌
IPv4 Filtering ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅
IPv6 Filtering ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅
L4 ports (source, destination) ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅
TCP Flags ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅
MPLS Tunnel Filtering ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅
GTP Tunnel Filtering ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅
L2TP Tunnel Filtering ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅
PPPoE Tunnel Filtering ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅
GRE Tunnel Filtering ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅
Packet processing MAC replace ✅ ❌ ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅
Vlan editing ✅ ❌ ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅
Data slicing ❌ ✅ ✅ ❌ ✅ ✅
Port timestamping ❌ ❌ ✅ ❌ ✅ ❌
Rule timestamping ❌ ❌ ✅ ❌ ✅ ❌
Load-Balancing Number of groups 99 99 99 99 99 99
Round robin ❌ ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ ❌
Hash based ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅
Random ❌ ❌ ❌ ❌ ❌ ✅
Hash Keys Input interface, MPLS,
L2, L3, L4, GTP TEID		 MPLS,
L2, L3, L4		 Input interface, MPLS,
L2, L3, L4, GTP TEID		 Input interface, MPLS,
L2, L3, L4, GTP TEID		 Input interface, MPLS,
L2, L3, L4, GTP TEID		 Input interface, MPLS,
L2, L3, L4, GTP TEID
Dynamic Load Balancing ❌ ❌ ✅ ❌ ✅ ❌
Ports redundancy (standby ports) ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅
Inline Solution Inline tools and heartbeat ✅ ❌ ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅
Inline tool chains ✅ ❌ ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅
Inline load balancing ✅ ❌ ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅
IP Interfaces Number of IP interfaces 99 ❌ 99 99 99 99
GRE Tunneling Number of GRE interfaces 99 n/a 99 99 99 n/a
L2 GRE termination ❌ ❌ ✅ ❌ ✅ ❌
L3 GRE termination ✅ ❌ ❌ ✅ ❌ ❌