Gigamon, a leader in traffic visibility solutions with the innovative Unified Visibility Fabric™, unveils a forthcoming application to generate and export NetFlow records from within the Visibility Fabric. The NetFlow Generation application will create NetFlow records, then send the information to one or multiple NetFlow collectors or analyzers. The application can maximize the efficiency of the network itself by assuming the processing necessary to generate NetFlow information that had previously been dedicated within the switch, thereby reducing the burden to the network. NetFlow is a simple way to derive basic information about things like traffic types, usage patterns, top talkers and top applications across systems.
“The NetFlow Generation application is a new and very interesting offering for our customers,” said Shehzad Merchant, Chief Strategy Officer at Gigamon. “This application is unique because it centralizes NetFlow Generation, offloads this compute intensive job from the network switches and routers, and does it effectively at high throughput rates for both sampled and unsampled traffic. By making NetFlow Generation an application integral to the Visibility Fabric, all the benefits of Flow Mapping®, filtering, replication, can be applied in conjunction with the NetFlow Generation capability, providing a very fine granularity of control. This is really an industry first for the monitoring space.”“Users can now leverage Gigamon’s Visibility Fabric for both packet and flow-level visibility in order to drive greater efficiencies in the network and network monitoring systems,” said Bob Laliberte, Sr. Analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group. “The NetFlow application will provide IT operations teams with the requisite information on network traffic types, relationships between network nodes and usage patterns without utilizing a separate appliance for NetFlow Generation or taxing the network. Simultaneously, network, application and security teams can take advantage of the Gigamon Visibility Fabric to provide packet-level visibility required for sniffers, probes and other security or performance analysis tools.” Read More 'Gigamon Introduces NetFlow Generation Application to Optimize Network Infrastructure'
