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Learn How To Architect For Network Visibility

Network visibility comes from collecting data from every switch point and intelligently distributing it so it can be turned into actionable information. Understand network visibility terminology.

Creating a visibility architecture increases network security, reduces costs and complexity, and strengthens regulatory compliance.

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Network Visibility Use Cases

Once you see what a good network visibility solution can do, you will find there are lots of ways to implement them. While not all use cases will apply to every network configuration, every enterprise will benefit from a network architecture review.

Here are some general categories of visibility solutions:

Improve network security
Provide cost reduction capabilities
Speed up troubleshooting efforts
Improve network reliability
Remove network blind spots
Optimize network performance
Strengthen regulatory compliance initiatives

Improve Network Security

Security begins at the network visibility layer. See how to eliminate blind spots, improve data flow to your security tools, and maximize your security resource availability.

Solution Briefs 2022.01.19

Offload SSL Decryption to Extend Firewall Life

Read this solution brief to see how you can use a network packet broker (NPB) to direct SSL-based traffic to a purpose-built decryption device to eliminate the issue.

2022.01.19

Solution Briefs 2017.06.21

Improve Security Threat Analysis By Using Serial Tool Chaining For Data Inspection

This solution brief shows a powerful way to improve your network security defenses. Learn how you can automate the security threat alert inspection process. Network packet brokers help this process by allowing IT to serially chain multiple security tools (IDS, DLP, SIEMs, firewalls, etc.) together to inspect network data for security threats.

2017.06.21

Solution Briefs 2017.08.13

Validate Your Security Device Readiness Before Bad Actors Get A Chance

This solution brief provides an easy way to validate if security patches have been applied and are working to prevent costly damages from network security attacks.

2017.08.13

Solution Briefs 2020.02.26

Security: In an Encrypted World

The challenge for IT security and operations professionals is how to balance the need for data protection and security.

2020.02.26

Control Network Costs

Planning a network upgrade? You can reduce your network monitoring and security tool costs while increasing efficiency.

Solution Briefs 2022.01.24

Understanding and Validating Packet De-duplication Within Network Packet Brokers

This solution brief shows you how you can validate the execution of your NPB to remove only the right duplicate data while performing multiple, concurrent functions.

2022.01.24

Solution Briefs 2022.01.26

Get More Value from Security and Monitoring Tools

In this timely and insightful solution brief, the team at Ixia gives you a relative overview of the issues at play. In it, you’ll learn how you can increase the value of out-of-band and inline tools, what role do visibility architectures play, and how to allow for immediate inline and out-of-band access points to check for intrusions.

2022.01.26

Solution Briefs 2022.01.20

Offload SSL Decryption to Extend Monitoring Tool Life and Value

Learn how you can implement a cost-effective solution by deploying a network packet broker (NPB) with integrated SSL decryption capability.

2022.01.20

Solution Briefs 2022.01.24

Understanding The Impact Of Packet Loss Within Your NPB

It is important to understand how your NPB will behave under both normal and high load conditions.

2022.01.24

Speed Up Troubleshooting

IT teams spend over 35% of their daily effort on reactive troubleshooting. Discover the tricks to reduce that time up to 80%.

Solution Briefs 2022.01.20

Application Intelligence Reduces Troubleshooting Time and Costs

This solution brief provides a general overview of how application intelligence can improve network and application troubleshooting and monitoring functions. In addition, a clear example is provided to illustrate how IT can change the focus of troubleshooting from reactive efforts to proactive efforts to help reduce time and cost.

2022.01.20

Solution Briefs 2022.01.24

Harnessing Network Visibility To Reduce Mean Time To Repair

A network visibility architecture can be deployed to allow IT to install solutions that access, aggregate, refine, and distribute critical troubleshooting data. This data can then be used to isolate and identify network problems as quickly as possible to restore optimal functionality.

2022.01.24

Solution Briefs 2022.01.20

Floating Filters Dramatically Cut Data Collection Time

A key component to reducing the mean time to repair (MTTR) is to choose a network packet broker (NPB) that allows you to create predefined filters, also called floating filters. Once a floating filter is created, it can be applied at will, which can save you several minutes (to more than an hour) of troubleshooting time per occurrence.

2022.01.20

Improve Network Reliability

In a 24x7 world, network and application availability is everything. Simple changes in your network architecture can dramatically reduce downtime risk.

Solution Briefs 2022.01.25

High Availability Makes Monitoring More Reliable

Network packet brokers (NPBs) that support HA are important for both inline and out-of-band monitoring solutions because they support the high network reliability standards that are needed for today’s networks. Read this solution brief to learn how to: increase network reliability for inline security tool deployments; protect against monitoring data loss for out-of-band monitoring tool deployments; reduce corporate risk from loss of security and monitoring data

2022.01.25

Solution Briefs 2022.01.24

Load Balancing Reduces Costs While Increasing Reliability

Network packet brokers (NPBs) have many useful features. One of the most important of these features is the ability to load balance data across multiple ports, as well as multiple security and monitoring tools. Read this solution brief to see how you can implement higher availability and/or reduce costs for your network monitoring solution.

2022.01.24

Solution Briefs 2022.01.23

Strengthen Security and Reduce Risk of Downtime

Download this solution brief to learn how deploying an external bypass switch and network packet broker can help you strengthen security and reduce the risk of downtime.

2022.01.23

Remove Network Blind Spots

Blind spots exist in your network where you lose data and risk breaches. See three common examples and how to overcome them.

Solution Briefs 2022.01.07

Get Visibility into Your Clouds

To maintain security and optimize performance in the cloud, your monitoring systems need access to all of your cloud-based data traffic. What you need is a reliable and scalable way to get visibility to cloud-based traffic, pinpoint data that is relevant, and deliver it quickly to your monitoring systems, no matter where they are located. Ixia's cloud visibility platform offers key advantages that other solutions do not.

2022.01.07

Solution Briefs 2023.07.27

Why are Taps Critical to Network Visibility and Security?

The first building-block to your visibility architecture is access to the data. That comes in one of two forms: a network tap or a switch port analyzer (SPAN) port (also known as port mirroring). But which is the right one? This document should help answer that question. These days, your network is as important to your business as any other item—including your products.

2023.07.27

Solution Briefs 2021.01.17

Monitor Cisco ACI Infrastructure Solutions with Ease

Cisco has created a software defined networking (SDN) solution called Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI). To optimize this solution for monitoring purposes, a Visibility Architecture consisting of taps and network packet brokers (NPBs) is needed. The Visibility Architecture is used to overcome the inherent limitations of an ACI architecture and maximize the use of your Cisco equipment. Read this document to learn how to: First, improve ACI deployments with packet filtering, header striping, and packet slicing. Second, reduce monitoring data bandwidth by applying de-duplication. Third, eliminate encapsulation issues by using an NPB to strip off VXLAN headers.

2021.01.17

Optimize Network Performance

Faster networks make everyone happy. Learn some easy ways to optimize your network performance.

Solution Briefs 2022.01.19

NPB Automation Dramatically Improves Security and Monitoring Response Times

Read this solution brief to see how you can make your SIEM, DLP, IDS, IPS, PCAP and other tools as effective as possible against the myriad of changing network security threats.

2022.01.19

Solution Briefs 2022.01.23

Understanding How Feature Combinations Affect NPB Performance

What you need is objective data that will show you how an existing, or proposed, solution actually works under real-world conditions.

2022.01.23

Solution Briefs 2022.01.19

Offload SSL Decryption to Extend Firewall Life

Read this solution brief to see how you can use a network packet broker (NPB) to direct SSL-based traffic to a purpose-built decryption device to eliminate the issue.

2022.01.19

Strengthen Regulatory Compliance

Data protection regulations demand immediate and often time-consuming efforts. See how network visibility solutions can solve several of your compliance headaches.

White Papers 2020.05.24