Section: Software

Metroflux

Participants : Pascale Vicat-Blanc Primet, Paulo Gonçalves, Patrick Loiseau, Matthieu Imbert, Oana Goga, Armel Soro.

Metroflux system aims at providing researchers and network operators with a very flexible and accurate packetlevel traffic analysis toolkit configured for 1 Gbps and 10 Gbps speed links. These projects helped in the setup of the Metroflux prototype based on the GtrcNet FPGA-based device technology, on huge data storage resources for collected data and on specific statistical analysis tools.

• Name: Metroflux

• Type: hardware/software

• Scientific problem addressed: flow and packet-level traffic capture and analysis

• Functional description: combine a FPGA based device for packet capture, header extraction and time stamp with a high capacity storage and computing server for statistic analysis of very high speed network's traffics.

• worldwide diffusion, deployment in Grid5000 network, used by ALCATEL-LUCENT Bell Labs,

• reference implementation in INRIA Bell-Labs common laboratory,

• Status: free software and access

• State: prototype,

• Depot APP: on going