Network Visibility for the Digitized Enterprise

The PDF file is a white paper that explains the benefits and features of network visibility solutions from Keysight Technologies, a leading provider of solutions for engineering design, emulation, and test. It covers topics such as what network visibility is, why it is important, how to achieve it, and what to look for in a visibility solution. Network visibility is the term used to describe a data distribution layer that intelligently connects raw, unprocessed incoming data to your analytics and security tools. It is not some sort of data analytics or monitoring application, or even deep packet inspection. Network visibility is pure and simple data distribution with the ability to intelligently direct and load-balance data flows to optimize security and network performance. Network visibility is essential for any organization that relies on applications and data to run their business. Without network visibility, you may face challenges such as: Troubleshooting application performance issues Monitoring application performance and reliability Ensuring network scalability Protecting and securing the network Managing complex network infrastructures To overcome these challenges, you need a network visibility solution that provides: Resilience: The ability to support redundant paths, monitor tool status, and route traffic around outages or failures. Intelligence: The ability to filter, groom, decrypt, timestamp, mask, and load-balance traffic across multiple tools. Precision: The ability to identify applications, geo-locate devices, and block known bad IP addresses or regions. Proactivity: The ability to monitor SLAs, customer experience, service readiness, and fault detection. Keysight Technologies offers a comprehensive network visibility solution that consists of three main components: Network Taps: These are passive devices that provide complete access to network traffic without affecting performance or reliability. They support various interfaces and speeds, from 1G to 400G Ethernet. Bypass Switches: These are intelligent devices that provide fail-safe inline protection for security tools. They support various features such as heartbeat packets, link fault detection, SNMP management, and remote configuration. Network Packet Brokers (NPBs): These are powerful devices that provide advanced data processing and distribution capabilities for monitoring tools. They support various features such as deduplication, load balancing, SSL decryption, NetFlow generation, data masking, application identification, geo-location, threat intelligence feed integration, and more. You can find more information about Keysight’s network visibility solutions on the Keysight website: [www.keysight.com]. You can also download the PDF file that contains the white paper: [https://literature.cdn.keysight.com/litweb/pdf/7019-0155.EN.pdf].