Aperi Network Address Translation (NAT) & Firewall App
Aperi Network Address Translation (NAT) & Firewall App
Aperi’s Network Address Translation & Firewall app (“NAT app”) is an FPGA-based application designed for the microserver platform, and is available from the Aperi
App Store. Providing seamless inbound and outbound re-routing of RTP streams within your network infrastructure, NAT app also includes RTP stream health monitoring, which will automatically shut down streams that deviate from a specified policy. Stream replication allows for two distinct output streams with independent IP addresses, ports, and VLANs. Failover can merge multiple source streams, selecting the highest quality single stream and automatically switching to a perfect replication should the
original stream degrade in quality or deviate from policy. The supports the SMPTE 2022 standard for transporting both compressed (2022-2) and uncompressed (2022-6) media flows via IP. NAT app provides an open bandwidth budget across the 10 GbE interfaces, and can route varying numbers of compressed (2022-2) streams depending on size, and up to 6 uncompressed (2022-6) streams per SFP port. It also provides support for the SMPTE 2110 standard, and can route video (2110-20), audio (2110-30), and ancillary data (2110-40) flows independently through networks. NAT app provides an open bandwidth budget across the 10 GbE interfaces, and can route up to 64 independent media flows per port. It offers stream duplication for media flows via SFP, and A/B failover for flows outputting through SFPs.
Technical Information
Firewall
4-layer inspection for basic ACL:
Ethernet: mac.dst, mac.src, vlan, vlanid
IP: ip.dst, ip.src
UDP: udp.dst, udp.src
RTP: rtp.src
Additional inspection of RTP payloads for ACL
Ensure 2022-2 payloads conform to transport stream structure and have correct packet count
Ensure 2022-6 payloads include RTP header extension, SDI types in headers match configured values, and detect if frame size of encapsulated SDI matches configured value
Ensure presence of RFC4175 payload header and indicated frame size matches configured values; ensure encapsulated raster video frame size matches configured value
Address Translation
4-layer packet header rewrite enforces complete re-addressing of every packet before egress
All unicast/multicast mappings are supported
For multicast flows, flood, IGMPv2 and v3 are supported
Monitoring and Stats
Ingress statistics include:
Ethernet: Frames received, FCS errors, packet rate, and total average bandwidth
Firewall-overall & firewall-per-flow counts total packets dropped, accepted, average speed and bandwidth
RTP flow shows RTP type (and payload header if applicable), sequence number, transport stream checking, and PDV/inter packet arrival time
For 2022-2, shows TS packets per payload, TS lock, TS rate, and payload alignment
For 2022-6, shows SDI type indicated by payload header versus one detected by line/sample counting, and SDI TRS lock and errors
For RFC4175, shows video raster type indicated by payload header versus type detected by line/sample counting
Egress statistics show total packet count, packet speed, and average rate per flow and for Ethernet
Hitless Merge
Configurable PDV buffer depth
Creates a new regenerated hitless transport with new addressing
Counts total number of recovered and unrecoverable packets, along with the differential delay between input flows
Additional information
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App Store. Providing seamless inbound and outbound re-routing of RTP streams within your network infrastructure, NAT app also includes RTP stream health monitoring, which will automatically shut down streams that deviate from a specified policy. Stream replication allows for two distinct output streams with independent IP addresses, ports, and VLANs. Failover can merge multiple source streams, selecting the highest quality single stream and automatically switching to a perfect replication should the
original stream degrade in quality or deviate from policy. The supports the SMPTE 2022 standard for transporting both compressed (2022-2) and uncompressed (2022-6) media flows via IP. NAT app provides an open bandwidth budget across the 10 GbE interfaces, and can route varying numbers of compressed (2022-2) streams depending on size, and up to 6 uncompressed (2022-6) streams per SFP port. It also provides support for the SMPTE 2110 standard, and can route video (2110-20), audio (2110-30), and ancillary data (2110-40) flows independently through networks. NAT app provides an open bandwidth budget across the 10 GbE interfaces, and can route up to 64 independent media flows per port. It offers stream duplication for media flows via SFP, and A/B failover for flows outputting through SFPs.
Technical Information
Firewall
4-layer inspection for basic ACL:
Ethernet: mac.dst, mac.src, vlan, vlanid
IP: ip.dst, ip.src
UDP: udp.dst, udp.src
RTP: rtp.src
Additional inspection of RTP payloads for ACL
Ensure 2022-2 payloads conform to transport stream structure and have correct packet count
Ensure 2022-6 payloads include RTP header extension, SDI types in headers match configured values, and detect if frame size of encapsulated SDI matches configured value
Ensure presence of RFC4175 payload header and indicated frame size matches configured values; ensure encapsulated raster video frame size matches configured value
Address Translation
4-layer packet header rewrite enforces complete re-addressing of every packet before egress
All unicast/multicast mappings are supported
For multicast flows, flood, IGMPv2 and v3 are supported
Monitoring and Stats
Ingress statistics include:
Ethernet: Frames received, FCS errors, packet rate, and total average bandwidth
Firewall-overall & firewall-per-flow counts total packets dropped, accepted, average speed and bandwidth
RTP flow shows RTP type (and payload header if applicable), sequence number, transport stream checking, and PDV/inter packet arrival time
For 2022-2, shows TS packets per payload, TS lock, TS rate, and payload alignment
For 2022-6, shows SDI type indicated by payload header versus one detected by line/sample counting, and SDI TRS lock and errors
For RFC4175, shows video raster type indicated by payload header versus type detected by line/sample counting
Egress statistics show total packet count, packet speed, and average rate per flow and for Ethernet
Hitless Merge
Configurable PDV buffer depth
Creates a new regenerated hitless transport with new addressing
Counts total number of recovered and unrecoverable packets, along with the differential delay between input flows
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