Too many tools but not enough span ports? IT, security and compliance teams fighting for span port access? Tracking sessions through mesh topologies and asynchronously routed networks requires deployment of tools at every switch or router for after the fact captured data analysis thereby increasing capital expenses for tools. These are all common problems in today’s networks that require tightened security, compliance monitoring and performance assurance. What is needed is a way to view the “Big Pipe” intelligently, or network wide “GigaVUE” – to coin a phrase.

Founded in 2003 by veterans of network monitoring and telecommunications equipment companies, Gigamon Systems is the inventor and leading provider of Data-Access Switches. Its flagship product, GigaVUE, can multicast packets from one span or tap to many tools to solve the span port sharing problem. It also can aggregate and intelligently filter packets from many spans or taps to one or a few tools. GigaVUE facilitates unobtrusive parallel tool deployment with network-wide coverage, significantly reducing customers’ capital budgets and yielding immediately ROI benefits.

Since its first release in 2005, GigaVUE-MP has gained worldwide acceptance from customers ranging from enterprise, to ISP, telecommunications carriers and governments. In January 2008, Gigamon Systems released its next generation of Data-Access Switch, GigaVUE-420, which serves the rapidly growing demand for 10 Gbps monitoring. A full roadmap of new product releases is planned for 2008, promising continued leadership in the data access market.

Please contact the company at info@gigamon.com for more information.

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