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Gigamon GigaVUE(R) 420 Data Access Switch Offers Better Solution For Network Monitoring

Posted on: Monday, 4 August 2008, 12:00 CDT

Gigamon, a leading provider of intelligent data access networking products, today announced the availability of its GigaVUE(R) 420 data access switch, a breakthrough in efficiency and adaptability for multiple network monitoring purposes. Offering four 10GigE ports and twenty 10/100/1000 ports, the GigaVUE 420 switch provides dynamic connectivity for a large number of out-of-band monitoring tools such as intrusion detection systems, data recorders, VoIP analyzers and other devices, making fulfillment of compliance, analysis, troubleshooting and security of the production network faster and less burdensome.

The GigaVUE 420, a 1U rack device, is a modular, packet-aware data access switch that supports all data rate and media choices. Its secure, customizable "data socket" orientation allows users to divide traffic and distribute packets to different GigE or 10 GigE tools according to a variety of power and flexible map and filter rules:

-- Any-to-Any Connectivity to solve tool deployment problems

-- Aggregate Multiple Links to consolidate tools

-- Multicast to Multiple Tools to share data sources

-- Intelligently Filter and Divide Loads to customize and manage data to different tools

"The pioneering and proprietary technology in the GigaVUE 420, which we call Data Access Networking or DAN, provides a clearly superior alternative to TAP or sniffer alternatives," said Patrick Leong, Gigamon's chief technical officer. "With a transfer latency of only 6 micro-seconds, the GigaVUE 420 has virtually no effect on frame transfer rates, allowing multiple users to complete a full range of monitoring tasks without impacting the production network."

Hardware filters based on any pattern in the GigaVUE 420 header may be enabled to eliminate unwanted packets. The system can be managed remotely by telnet or SSH2, and authenticated with TACAC+ or RADIUS.

Using the DAN-based GigaVUE 420, network engineers can isolate and captures sessions across parallel links and switches, reducing and customizing data flows to each tool as needed. Tools may be added without affecting the network at any hour, and without configuration management review. By stacking multiple GigaVUE 420s, engineers can form a high-density access fabric of up to 222 DAN ports, for extensible distribution to monitoring tools.

The GigaVUE 420 family of products include GigaTAP dual fault-tolerant taps for cooper or optical links; GigaPORT copper or optical 4-port expansion modules; and GigaLINK copper or optical 10 GigE port modules. For more information on the GigaVUE 420 data access switch, including a product brief and online presentation, visit http://www.gigamon.com/gigavue-420.php.

About Gigamon:

Founded in 2003 by six veterans of network monitoring and telecommunications equipment companies, Gigamon invents and manufactures innovative solutions for data access networks. Its flagship product, GigaVUE(R), can support multiple out-of-band monitoring tools for compliance, security, troubleshooting and analysis, sidestepping the hassles presented when too few SPAN ports are available. It also can aggregate and intelligently filter packets from many SPANs or TAPs to one or multiple tools to solve the problem of monitoring flows across complex mesh topologies and virtual networks. GigaVUE(R) data access switches significantly reduce customers' capital budgets and yield immediate ROI benefits. For more information about Gigamon and its award-winning solutions, visit www.gigamon.com.

Source: Business Wire

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