Network Visibility

The need for always-on networks is pervasive, and expectations are high when it comes to keeping them connected and secure. Keysight's solutions deliver rich data about network traffic, applications, and users across any networking environment. This deep insight is what we call dynamic network intelligence, helping you to continuously innovate, meet aggressive service level agreements, and keep applications running smoothly and securely.

Proper network monitoring consists of more than just attaching a security and monitoring tool to a tap or SPAN port. Learn how a network packet broker can be effectively used to: - Filter out unnecessary data flooding your security monitoring tools to make them more efficient- Load balance data across multiple tools to extend the life of those existing tools- Perform packet slicing to improve network security and increase regulatory compliance- Perform header stripping to make security and monitoring tools more efficient- Take advantage of component automation to reduce costs and improve service efficiency This document provides the basic information you need, in a straight forward and condense format, to help you optimize your network visibility and monitoring architecture.

When it comes to data monitoring, ensuring proper access to network data is one of the most critical things you can do. Missing and incorrect data will slow down the analysis of problems by your security monitoring and tools. It may also lead to false conclusions by those tools. In turn, this can lead to missed security threats, false positives for security threats and network impairments, and higher costs. This white paper is designed to be a generic guide to help assist in the optimization process of your visibility architecture so that you can collect better data at the start of your monitoring architecture. An overview of the differences between taps and SPANs, virtual taps, and different types of tap solutions including bypass switches is provided along with three examples and recommendations for best practices.

The Network World headline says it all: Ixia’s GUI faster, more accurate than Gigamon’s command line interface or Flowmap. In this insightful article, you can read an analyst’s point of view on how an integrated drag-and-drop GUI dramatically improves network programming efficiency, network troubleshooting speed, and network monitoring accuracy over command line interface (CLI) or Flowmap approaches.

Download the white paper to ensure you have the best technology and value for your deployment by understanding the key differences in network taps. Network visibility and data access to your traffic ensure that your network runs efficiently. A network tap (Test Access Port) is an inexpensive and permanent access port used throughout the network to enable monitoring and analysis without interrupting data transmission. There are many benefits for choosing a network tap solution instead of diverting data with a port connection on a switch. With so many network taps available on the market, choosing the right tap provides significant savings. For example, did you know that signal loss and degradation may result in thousands spent for additional cable roll-outs in data centers? Ensure you have the best technology and value for your deployment by understanding the key differences in network taps.

In this report, Tolly shows how Ixia’s Net Tool Optimizer (NTO) packet brokers processed 100% of packets at every speed, while running the most powerful features.

Network packet brokers aggregate, filter, and send data to security and monitoring tools — tightening security, improving response times, and improving ROI.