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Terminology and Acronyms
AR – Available Rate
BITW – Bump in the Wire
CAC – Call Admission Control
DPDK – Data Plane Development Kit
DPI – Deep Packet Inspection
EFC – Egress Flow Class
EMAP – Egress Policy Map
FACL – Flow Access Control List
FR – Fixed Rate
HE – Host Equalization
HMAP – Host Policy Map
IFD – Intelligent Flow Delivery
IFC – Ingress Flow Class
IMAP- Ingress Policy Map
NPE – Network Performance Enforcement
P2P – Peer to Peer
QoS – Quality of Service
STM – Saisei Traffic Manager
TR – Total Rate
VoIP – Voice over IP
VM – Virtual Machine a software based virtual Guest or virtual appliance
Hypervisor – a hardware abstraction layer enabling multiple VM guests share the resources of a hardware platform, generally an X86 COTS server.
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Introduction
The Saisei Traffic Manager platform™ is a highly distributable advanced real time network controller and real time application monitor. This provides application visibility, policy control and advanced traffic engineering for customers looking to control their business applications through advanced network intelligence to provide deterministic levels of QoS. The patented flow engine provides real time policy based feedback loop to application traffic to ensure business policies are enforced. The NPE is a high capacity traffic manager designed to manage traffic flows to ensure desired performance and quality for all key business applications.
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As a prerequisite it is expected that the reader of this document has an existing Saisei Support account and has downloaded the latest release in the TGZ file format.
Software Upgrade
For those who have not already done so there is the requirement to log onto the Saisei Support system and download the latest version of NPE operating software in the TGZ format.
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Verifying the running version is achieved by selecting the user pulldown in the top right corner as shown below: -
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Which results in: -
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