SCENARIO
Today’s networks are growing in both size and complexity, presenting new challenges for IT and network administrators. More mobile devices are connecting to more data from more sources— and much of that is due to virtualization. IT challenges are further complicated by increasingly high customer expectations for always-on access and immediate application response. This complexity creates network “blind spots” where latent errors germinate and pre-attack activity lurks.
Blind spots are commonly caused by the following issues: poor use of Switch Port Analyzer (SPAN) ports and lack of tap ports, limiting tool access to data; dropped and duplicated packets, which suppress or delay actionable information; SSL-encrypted traffic that may hide malware; and monitoring plans that are behind migration cycles. Stressed out monitoring
systems make it hard, if not impossible, to keep up with traffic and filter data “noise” at a rate that they were not designed to handle.
Network blind spots have become a costly and risk-filled challenge for network operators. Further, unseen inter-VM and cross-blade data center traffic leaves the network vulnerable to threats, noncompliance, loss of availability, and impaired performance. Today, up to 80% of data center traffic can travel between servers, making end-to-end visibility a real challenge.
The answer to these challenges is a highly scalable visibility architecture that helps eliminate blind spots, while providing resilience and control without complexity. Ixia’s Visibility Architecture delivers intelligent, resilient, and proactive network visibility
IXIA SOLUTIONS
The Ixia Visibility Architecture is founded on a comprehensive product portfolio of highperformance taps, bypass switches, NPBs, a cloud visibility platform, and an active monitoring solution, all of which can be easily deployed and managed. The Ixia Visibility Architecture helps speed application delivery and enables effective troubleshooting and monitoring for network security, application performance, and SLA fulfillment—and allows IT to meet compliance mandates.
It provides a solution to support both out-ofband and inline monitoring in network and cloud environments. The NPB, a key pillar of the Ixia Visibility Architecture, enables fail-safe deployment of multiple inline and out-of-band security enforcement and performance tools, such as IPSs, NGFWs, Application Performance Monitoring (APMs), Network Performance Monitoring (NPMs), etc.