The Need for

Active Visibility

Demands on modern business infrastructure

Respond rapidly to changing conditions

Creates pressure to

Do more with less by increasing productivity

Protect data, customers, brand against

increasing security attacks

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Impacts of demands on modern infrastructure

Compliance requirements
constrain business agility

Growth in network usage

demands more bandwidth

These demands
strain IT
organizations

Rise of targeted security

breaches impact reputation

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New trends like virtualization and

SDN, complicate IT management

IT Transformation: Proactive infrastructure management

requires responses to the following current IT issues

>70% of server workloads

are virtualized1

70%

76%

>76% of datacenter traffic is

east/west2 (server-to-server)

35% of enterprise network

traffic is SSL encrypted4

35%

75%

75% of problems are first

identified by end users, not by IT3

1 Gartner: Magic Quadrant for x86 Server Virtualization Infrastructure, July 2, 2014
2 Cisco Systems Global Cloud Index: Forecast and Methodology, 20122017
3 ZK Research
4 NSS Labs, SSL Performance Problems, June 12, 2013
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Increasing value of your network requires

proactive strategy
Network

Mainframe

Client/Server

Internet

Mobile-Cloud

1960-1980

1980-1995

1995-2010

2010+

IT management challenge:
Infrastructure
growth results in

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Value

Limited networkwide visibility

(physical and
virtual)

Cost of C
omputin
g

Distributed silo
approach to
problem solving

Untapped information
needed for real-time
analytics

Closing the gap with traffic intelligence

Tools
Infrastructure

Broad, General Focused and Specific

SVM

NPM

APM

CEM

Increased
traffic
intelligence
helps close
this gap

Network &
Applications
Infrastructure

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Mobility, consumerization, virtualization, cloud, SDN, NFV

Legacy methods to address IT challenges no longer work

IT Challenge

Problems with
Legacy Methods

Network Speeds

Management tools
become overwhelmed

Security & network analysis solutions

may not be up to latest network speeds

A rise in single points of

failure, blind spots

Encryption and Virtualization

Technologies like SSL and SDN
hide traffic

A decrease in key data

delivered to key tools

Topology and Port Limitations

Updates to the production network are
disruptive to the business

Impact to The Enterprise

Reactive
IT Operations

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Suboptimal return
on investment

Three principles of Active Visibility

Intelligent
Pervasive
Secure
Assure privacy and
compliance
Extend the life of
existing tools and
reduce the cost of
new tools

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Enables real-time
traffic collection for big
data analytics

Pervasive visibility
from the physical to
the virtual

Provides agility to
anticipate, react,
respond

Find problems faster

Context-aware to
enable dynamic reconfiguration based
on real-time
conditions

Tool agnostic = bestof-breed solutions

Active Visibility brings flexibility, visibility and control

Gain visibility for security
and analytics tools

Intelligently direct and

groom traffic

Distribute the right traffic to

the right solution

Gain flexibility to integrate new

best-of-breed network tools

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Provide visibility across physical

and virtual infrastructure

Enable real-time data

capture and analysis

Shorten technology
evaluation cycles

Unified Visibility Fabric enables Active Visibility

Internet

Centralized
Centralized
Tools
Tools

Application
Performance

Routers

Network
Performance

Spine
switch

Customer Experience
Management

Leaf
switch
Security

Virtualized
Server Farm

THE
NETWORK
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Key benefits of Active Visibility

future-proofs your business
Interface to other
applications

Centralized
Tools

GigaVUE-FM
Single pane of glass across Visibility infrastructure

Core
De-duplication FlowVUE

GTP
NetFlow
SSL
Correlation Generation Decryption

Application
Performance

GigaVUE-HB1
Packet
Slicing

Edge
Physical
Virtual
Data Center
Racks

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GigaVUE-HD8

GigaVUE-HC2

Masking

Header
Stripping

Adaptive
Packet
Filtering

Tunneling
Network
Performance

GigaVUE-TA1
GigaVUE-OS on white box
GigaVUE-VM

Customer
Experience
Management

Security

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Key benefits of Active Visibility

future-proofs your business
Interface to other
applications

Core

Centralized
Tools

GigaVUE-FM
Single pane of glass across Visibility infrastructure

Pervasive visibility across physical, virtual and remote networks

De-duplication FlowVUE

Simplification of network troubleshooting

GTP
NetFlow
SSL
Correlation Generation Decryption

Application
Performance

GigaVUE-HB1

Packet
Masking
Header
The right network data to best-of-breed
solutions
Slicing
Stripping

Edge
Physical
Virtual
Data Center
Racks

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GigaVUE-HD8

GigaVUE-HC2

Adaptive
Packet
Filtering

Tunneling
Network
Performance

SLA metrics and customer experience management

GigaVUE-TA1
GigaVUE-OS on white box

Compliance supports privacy, data capture, storage and monitoring

GigaVUE-VM

Customer
Experience
Management

Security

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