Solution Overview
Riverbed Technology and Big Switch Networks are partnering together to provide a cost-optimized application-aware network monitoring solution enabling easy and efficient troubleshooting of the network and applications. These joint network monitoring solutions offer unprecedented scale for data-center-wide monitoring, including east-west network traffic. The SDN-powered Big Monitoring Fabric from Big Switch Networks delivers traffic to the Riverbed SteelCentral application-aware network performance management platform which ensures comprehensive monitoring with detailed packet capture and analysis. Customers can realize unsurpassed benefits of having a multi-tenant, cost-optimized, highly scalable and flexible solution while preventing choke points typically seen in a static, box-centric monitoring solution.
SteelCentral and Big Monitoring Fabric Solution Brief
Versions tested:
Big Switch Products: Big Monitoring Fabric 5.6
Riverbed Products: Riverbed SteelCentral NetShark, SteelCentral AppResponse, and SteelCentral NetExpress
Big Switch Networks
Big Switch Networks is the market leader in bringing hyperscale-inspired data center networking technologies to a mainstream data center audience to deliver order of magnitude improvements in network agility, flexibility and operational efficiency. The company is taking three key hyperscale technologies -- OEM/ODM bare metal and open Ethernet switch hardware, sophisticated SDN control software, and core-and-pod data center designs -- and leveraging them in fit-for-purpose products designed for use in enterprises, cloud providers, and service providers. The company's Big Monitoring Fabric is a feature-rich next-generation Network Packet Broker to monitor and protect existing networks, and Big Cloud Fabric is the industry's most advanced open networking switching fabric intended for new data center pods such as OpenStack private cloud, VMware workloads, big data, and VDI.
For additional information, email info@bigswitch.com.
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Additional Resources
Presentation
Riverbed & Big Switch: Application-aware network monitoring at scale with SDN fabrics
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