High Density Network Address Translator and Data Encapsulator

The 7880IPG-NAT-6-10GE2 is a high-density, multi-port, multi-flow hardware Network Address Translation (NAT) engine with enhanced features such as Port Aggregation, Tunneling, Packet Replication and Bandwidth Capping, allowing service providers to seamlessly bridge across networks in multi-tenant environments. The 7880IPG-NAT-6-10GE is conceptually organized as 6 WAN-side ports +6 LAN-side ports, with a packet processing core between each WAN-LAN pair. A given processing core can sustain up to 256 data flows, configurable based on multicasts or VLAN Tags. This gives an exceptional product density of 12 x10GE ports, with 1536 multicast/VLAN flows - All in the space-efficient Evertz 7800 modular hardware platform. Multiple processing cores can be configured to aggregate their Tx traffic to a single WAN Port. Correspondingly, Rx traffic from that WAN port is distributed to its contributing processing cores. WAN-side Port Aggregation allows network engineers to achieve functions such as port-based redundancy using the 7880IPG-NAT-6-10GE.