SOURCES SOUGHT
D -- Network Packet Broker
- Notice Date
- 12/4/2013
- Notice Type
- Sources Sought
- NAICS
- 334118
— Computer Terminal and Other Computer Peripheral Equipment Manufacturing
- Contracting Office
- Social Security Administration, Office of Budget, Finance, and Management, Office of Acquisition and Grants, 1st Floor, Rear Entrance, 7111 Security Blvd., Baltimore, Maryland, 21244
- ZIP Code
- 21244
- Solicitation Number
- SSA-RFI-14-672N3
- Point of Contact
- Madeline R. Bryant, Phone: 4109659464
- E-Mail Address
-
Madeline.Bryant@ssa.gov
(Madeline.Bryant@ssa.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- Network Packet Broker for SPAN/TAP Aggregation and Distribution The Social Security Administration's (SSA) new datacenter, the National Support Center (NSC) will require a Network Packet Broker (NPB) solution to aggregate and manage multiple datacenter data feeds. SSA is soliciting for product information to address the deployment of a single chassis Network Packet Broker solution capable of supporting the new NSC network architecture. NPB devices are part of the SSA network troubleshooting technique currently used at SSA's National Computer Center (NCC) and Second Support Center (SSC) and is needed for the continued success of maintaining the network. 1.0 Network Packet Broker Base Requirements The Solution shall provide: a) A Single high density NPB is required to centrally manage and support the high and tiered density of NSC Data Center SPAN Session Switch Ports, passive network TAP Ports, and an equally high distribution density to NSC Network, Application, Security Analysis, Real Time Monitoring and Intrusion Prevention, Deep Packet Capture Storage, and Forensic Analysis Appliances and Probes. A Single NPB with a High Speed, High Performance, Non-Blocking, Back Plane Chassis providing central Redundant Fabric Management Processing and Blade Module Administration, supporting between 8-16 Blade Modules Slots, and capable of provisioning 192-256 combined Network and Tool Ports at 1 Gb/s, 10 Gb/s, or 40Gb/s will be required to support the NSC Data Center densities and packet processing and Tool Port distribution. b) The Network Packet Broker (NPB) solution must provide dual stack IPv4 and IPv6 TCPIP Packet De-Duplication solution. NSC Data Center Cisco Nexus SPAN and TAP densities, coupled with tiered SPAN and TAP levels, will introduce a high level of dual stack Packet Duplication. Robust Packet De-Duplication is a paramount requirement to accurately deliver SPAN and TAP session IPv4 and IPv6 TCPIP packet data t o Network, Application, Security, Data Capture Storage, and Analytical appliances. c) The NSC Data Center Network supports a density of VMware ESXi standalone and clustered servers. The NPB solution must support, administrate, and manage multiple VMware supported Virtual NPB Images. The VMware supported Virtual NPB Images will be hosted within each VMware ESXi Host and VMware ESXi Cluster Servers. Each Virtual software NPB Image will Network Port connect to internal VMware virtual switch SPAN session packet data within the VMware Host. Each Virtual software NPB Image will tunnel and forward VMware SPAN Session data from the Virtual NPB Network Ports, to the NPB chassis and Management service, which will distributed the virtual switch SPAN session packet data to defined NPB Tool Ports, and their attached appropriate Performance and Analysis Tools. d) By Federal mandate, the NSC Data Center Internet, Intranet, and Extranet Networks supports dual stack IPv4 and IPv6 TCPIP network and application protocols. The NPB will be required to support dual stack IPv4 and IPv6 TCPIP packet data Processing, Packet De-Duplication, Packet Filtering, and Distribution to NPB Tool Ports, and attached Performance and Analysis Tools. e) The NPB Management and Administration GUI/CLI solution must include a Database and Database Storage solution for performance and reporting. The NPB Management and Administration GUI/CLI solution collect and store data processing, performance, statistics, logging, and reporting metrics for a period of 30-120 days, or longer of the redundant NPB Management and Processor Blade Modules, Power Supply Blade Modules, Network and Tool Port Blade Modules, VMware Virtual NPB Images, and any other special NPB Blade Modules. 2.0 Network Packet Broker Chassis and Blade Module Requirements The Solution shall provide: a) The Single NPB Chassis must support a minimum of 8-16 Blade Module Slot density. The Single NPB Chassis must use a High Speed, High Performance, Non-Blocking, Back Plane Chassis Fabric. The Single NPB Chassis must support multiple or combinations of Blade Modules whose configurations are capable of supporting a maximum of 64 X 40 Gb/s Network or Tool Ports, or 256-384 X 10 Gb/s SPAN/TAP Network or Tool Ports, or 352 - 712 x 1 Gb/s + 32 X 10 Gb/s SPAN/TAP Network or Tool Ports, or any mix of these Network or Tool Port data rates in a Single Chassis. Additional Blade Modules may perform other significant valuable NPB Services or Processing. b) The NPB Network or Tool Ports Blade Modules must support either 1Gb/s or 10 Gb/s MM Fiber, SM Fiber, or CAT6 CU TP, dependent on the GBIC installed in any Blade Module Port and its definition. A NPB Blade Module designed for Network or Tool Ports must support 4 X 40 Gb/s MM or SM Fiber GBIC enabled Ports. Future enabled support NPB Chassis and Network or Tool Ports Blade Modules supporting of 100 Gb/s Network and Tool Ports is desired. c) The NPB Blade Module System Controllers and Dual Power Supplies will be fully redundant and Hot Swappable. All NPB Network or Tool Ports Blade Modules or Service Blade Modules will be Hot Swappable. d) The Network Packet Broker (NPB) Blade Module processing and software must support the aggregation, processing, filtering, and distribution of dual stack IPv4and IPv6 TCPIP Protocol Standards to any/all Network or Tool Ports. e) The Network Packet Broker (NPB) Blade Module hardware processing and software, due to SSA NSC SPAN and TAP architecture Asymmetry and Inter- VLAN redundancy and overlap, is required to provide dual stack IPv4 and IPv6 TCPIP Network and Tool Port Network Packet De-Duplication. 3.0 Network Packet Broker Aggregation and Distribution Requirements The Solution shall provide: a) The NPB hardware and software processing must provide Packet De-Duplication processing and distribute IPv4 and IPv6 De-Duplicated network packet data at near wire speed to any NPB Network or Tool Port. b) The NPB hardware and software processing must provide Single/Many-to-Single/Many-to-Many, SPAN and TAP traffic network port mapping, distribution, real-time adjusted packet flow, tool port mapping and paths. The NPB software fabric must map (any-to-any), aggregate (many-to-any), or multicast (any-to-many). c) The NPB hardware and software processing must aggregate multiple SPAN and TAP traffic packet stream inputs into one larger stream, load balance across multiple Tool Port, distribute by definition or mapping to multiple Tool Ports, aggregate to a few consolidated Tool Ports, and filter or divide traffic across many instances of the same Tools Ports, or to separate and individual Tool Ports. d) The NPB hardware and software processing must provide dual stack IPv4 and IPv6 TCPIP visibility between virtualized servers, the application services, the network, and application data bases within a VMware ESXi Host. The NPB hardware and software solution must be able to manage, configure, control multiple Virtual NPB's services within VMware ESXi Hosts, that aggregate, tunnel, and forward to the NPB hardware and management service, and distributed to NPB chassis Tool Ports and attached Performance and Analysis Tools. 4.0 Network Packet Broker System Management Requirements Solution shall support: a) The NPB solution must have Secure Graphical User Interface (GUI) that supports HTTPS, Auto Redirect to HTTPS, and a Secure Command Line Interface (CLI) that supports SSH. The NPB Management Software may be deployed as a Virtual MS Server or RHEL OS Server or as a standalone Intel based hardware server, with MS Server or RHEL OS installed. The Administrative and User interface must be intuitive, easy to use, and easily perform software configuration and deployment of SPAN and TAP aggregation, packet de-duplication, network and distribution mapping, filtering, and provide real-time and historical statistics, reporting, and alarms. b) The NPB GUI and CLI Management Software will easy administration, aggregation, packet de-duplication, network and distribution mapping, filtering, and provide statistics, reporting, and alarms of multiple Virtual NPB's services hosted by VMware ESXi Servers and associated VMware HyperVisor and Virtual Switch Fabric services. c) The NPB solution must support extensible XML or other supporting API(s) to perform desired configuration, modification, change management, and data delivery to security, application and network performance, bandwidth analysis, and other monitoring tools and their supported software API. d) The NPB Management and Administration GUI solution must support an associated Database and Database Storage to collect and store all NPB Management and Processor Blade Modules, Power Supply Blade Modules, Network and Tool Port Blade Modules, Virtual software NPB service Module, and other special Blade Modules data processing, performance, statistics, and logging metrics for a period of 30-120 days, or longer. 5.0 Network Packet Broker Packet Processing and Filter Requirements Solution shall support: a) The NPB solution must perform dual stack TCIP IPv4 and IPv6 Packet filtering of SPAN and TAP traffic packet data based on the characteristics found in the packet headers, allowing filtering of Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) Layers 2 through 4, with the added NPB ability to perform user defined SPAN and TAP traffic Layer 4-7 packet filtering. b) The NPB must support at least 1200 Dual Stack IPv4 and IPv6 Filters or Filter Map-rules per Network/Tool Port Blade Module, with the ability to mix any number of "allow" and "deny" or other filters that have been defined and applied to a single or multiple Network or Tool Ports or Network or Tool Port Mapping. c) The NPB must support hardware based port time stamping (nanosecond Accuracy) at the time of packet capture (with proven link-layer visibility), Port Tagging, Packet Slicing, Data Masking, IP Tunneling, ERSPAN, MPLS/VLAN Tag Stripping and Insertion. 6.0 Network Packet Broker Deployment Requirements The Solution shall: a) The NPB must support V1/V2/V3c SNMP, TACACS+, Radius, LDAP, CA, and Syslog Services b) The NPB must support updates using VM OVF package or Software Release. c) The NPB must support Physical Appliance Requirements (if solution calls for): a. Redundant power supply and other key hardware components b. 1000/10000 Ethernet support c. 120/220v AC 3-phase support d. Rack-mountable in standard 19" rack mounts e. MS Server 2008/2012 or RHEL Linux only 7.0 Network Packet Broker Support Requirements a) Provide 24x7x365 support services b) Provide U.S. based support c) Upgrades and software revision included in maintenance and support d) 5 year Hardware Warranty Interested sources that believe they have the bona fide capability to offer a technically compliant product should submit a detailed statement of their solution via email to Madeline Bryant, at Madeline.Bryant@ssa.gov no later than December 19, 2013 5:00 PM EST. Facsimile responses are not acceptable. Please reference SSA-RFI-14-672N3 in the email subject line. The file size limitation for e-mail attachments is 5 megabytes. Detailed responses to each of the above requirements (with substantiating documentation) are required. SSA will not consider simple marketing information or incomplete responses. SSA will not consider reference to vendor web sites as a valid response. Respondents should indicate whether their product is available on GSA Federal Supply Schedules or any other Government-wide Agency Contract (GWAC). ***Any questions regarding this RFI should be sent to Madeline.Bryant@ssa.gov no later than December 9, 2013 5:00 PM EST. **** Synopsis Terms and Conditions: • This is a sources sought announcement, a market survey for written information only. • This is not a solicitation announcement for proposals and the Government will not award a contract from this announcement. • The Government will not reimburse for any costs associated with providing information in response to this announcement or any follow-up information requests. • The Government will not accept any telephone calls, or requests for a bid package or solicitation. There is no bid package or solicitation. • In order to protect the procurement integrity of any future procurement, if any, that may arise from this announcement; the Government will not give information regarding the technical point of contact. • The Government will not make appointments for presentations. This synopsis is for planning purposes only, not a commitment by the Government. • The Government will use responses to this sources sought/market research notice to make appropriate acquisition decisions.
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- Place of Performance
- Address: National Computer Center, 6201 Security Boulevard, Baltimore, Maryland, 21235, United States
- Zip Code: 21235
- Zip Code: 21235
- Record
- SN03245473-W 20131206/131204234406-cb933ff1bede3274a48e78d3091b6c0e (fbodaily.com)
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