The Gigamon Unified Fabric Solution provides Riverbed's SteelCentral solutions with filtered and aggregated streams of data for optimal network and application monitoring.

Solution Overview

The Gigamon^® Unified Visibility Fabric solution delivers pervasive and dynamic visibility of network and application traffic that transverses across enterprise networks. This UVF architecture provides Riverbed's SteelCentral products filtered and aggregated streams of data from the entire network with our patented Flow Mapping® Technology;  enabling the various SteelCentral products to work at their highest level of efficiency.  Having both the Riverbed and Gigamon solutions enables customers to achieve, extended visibility, faster time to resolution, improved ROI, better scale and reduced cost to maintain.  This can be particularly critical and cost effective for the data center where there are many different critical traffic paths that need to be monitored.

The Gigamon Visibility Fabric™ delivers data from across physical and virtual infrastructure to centralized monitoring tools using a variety of methods including aggregation, intelligent filtering, and replication.  Traffic can be individually and dynamically tuned to ensure that only relevant and timely data is delivered to the SteelCentral solution. In addition, the Visibility Fabric can provide traffic intelligence functions to optimize performance monitoring including precision time stamping closer to the point of origin for improved accuracy of results, comprehensive NetFlow statistics for big-picture analysis, SSL decryption for visibility into application blind spots, slicing/masking to address privacy, and de-duplication to improve efficiency.

Gigamon Riverbed Partner Solution Brief

Versions tested:
Gigamon H series and G series products, Version 4.1  GigaVUE FM and VM, Version 2.2
Riverbed SteelCentral NetShark 10.7.1, AppResponse 9.0.3, NetProfiler 10.7.1, Flow Gateway 10.7.1

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