SDN and NFV Solutions Help Maintain Visibility in the New Software Defined Data Center

SDN, NFV, and Virtualization For Enterprises

Virtualization and SDN increase your network utilization and agility. Getting visibility, however, into this software-defined infrastructure to validate application performance is challenging.

Our software-defined network solutions provide complete network-level visibility letting you test your virtual and SDN deployments. Whether deploying your broader network using SDN or deploying an SD-WAN, make sure you test your network with realistic traffic.

SDN, NFV, and Virtualization For Enterprises
SDN, NFV, and Virtualization For Service Providers

SDN, NFV, and Virtualization For Service Providers

Virtualized, software-defined network, and network functions virtualization architectures allow service providers to respond with unmatched scale and speed. Visibility access to measure application performance, however, is a challenge in virtual environments.

Our solutions help ensure your SDN-NFV applications meet performance expectations. We also help you eliminate blind-spots in east/west and monitor encrypted traffic across your virtual and software-defined networks.

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Mitigating NFV Risks

Migrate, Test, and Monitor Your SDN and NFV Virtualized Deployments

Improve Disaggregated Visibility

Disaggregated networking solutions allow you to run best-of-breed network operating systems on open switches. This approach can be very cost effective in software defined data centers.

If disaggregation works for the network itself, it may also be right for your network visibility requirements. Whether deployed at the edge or aggregation layers of the network, Ixia's Vision Edge OS provides an effective but affordable way to bring visibility, replication, load balancing, and dynamic filtering to your data center.

Start In The Lab. Prove In Production. Time To Revenue: 20% Faster.

Everyone wants to deploy faster, and agile development is key to making that happen. It is about creating an environment where developers can integrate their new code into a realistic environment to evaluate its stability and security functions. Getting this right can result in advancing to production 20% faster.

We give you tools for end-to-end validation of virtualization migrations to dramatically accelerate time from lab to production. By ensuring alignment with the Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) agile service development model, you can rapidly identify and resolve issues.

Tapping Into Your Virtual Data

Your security is only as good as the data it sees. You rely on your network security tools to analyze and protect your data. Our visibility solutions provide access to east-west data, and distribute it to the right security and monitoring tools at the right time. We provide more than just copies of raw data to your security, analytics and performance tools in any virtual environment—we filter what is relevant to the user or tool at the source.

The combination of Ixia virtual taps and virtual packet brokers delivers the total visibility you need. The virtual visibility tools supports packet and application flow filtering, NetFlow generation with advanced application identification and geographic location, secure sockets layer (SSL) decryption, load balancing, and many advanced packet processing capabilities, like deduplication, header stripping, and fragmentation.

  • “Phantom Virtual Network Tap not only preserves the value of our instrumentation layer, it’s helping us save jobs as we virtualize. These economies are enormous.”

    SR. NETWORK MANAGER, ENERGY PROVIDER

     

  • “We gained total visibility, a familiar management interface, and one vendor for physical and virtual architectures.”

    CTO, ENERGY ENTERPRISE

  • “Ixia’s (now part of Keysight) virtualization solution and VMware together solve east-west traffic invisibility and attack vulnerabilities at the hypervisor kernel level.”

    SENIOR VIRTUAL NETWORK ANALYST

Further Reading

Solution Briefs 2017.12.04

Deploying SDN & NFV Faster with Cloud Sandboxes

Deploying SDN & NFV Faster with Cloud Sandboxes

The proliferation of vendors, complexity of architectures, and interoperability with legacy networks makes the transition to SDN and NFV both challenging and risky.

2017.12.04

Solution Briefs 2019.04.11

Accelerate SDN Adoption and Deployment

Accelerate SDN Adoption and Deployment

Ixia’s IXNetwork SDN test solution covers multiple SDN approaches, providing the flexibility needed to test a wide variety of SDN implementations. Want to learn how can you better leverage SDN? Interested in exploring approaches to accelerating SDN adoption and deployment? Download the solution brief to learn more.

2019.04.11

White Papers 2020.05.22

SD-WAN 101: Ensuring Peak Network Performance and Service QoE

SD-WAN 101: Ensuring Peak Network Performance and Service QoE

As with any new technology, SD-WAN does not come without challenges. The network infrastructure needs to be well-tested to be able to provide the five-nines reliability required for business-critical applications. Testing robustness and ensuring security of the network is extremely critical since the cost of downtime for an enterprise network is very high. Read this paper to better understand the pre-deployment network infrastructure validation and post-deployment SLA and performance monitoring required to ensure successful SD-WAN implementations.

2020.05.22

White Papers 2020.05.27

Best Practices for Monitoring Virtual Environments

Best Practices for Monitoring Virtual Environments

Enterprise IT administrators face numerous challenges when migrating and running their critical application workloads in diverse environments – branch office, virtualized data center, private and public cloud. Also, widescale adoption of new technologies such as SD-WAN and micro-segmentation impact security and application quality of experience in these environments. The paper addresses six key considerations to ensure service resilience in virtual environments, and the importance of providing pervasive data access to the right tool, at the right time, and in the right place.

2020.05.27

White Papers 2020.05.28

Mitigating Risk in NFV with Continuous Simulation and Testing

Mitigating Risk in NFV with Continuous Simulation and Testing

The key to mitigating risk in NFV implementations is a continuous testing and remediation process, which includes the following steps: First Step, Develop the next iteration of your NFV infrastructure and identify how it will operate in the real world. Second Step, Simulate traffic and network conditions. Third Step, Remediate—identify problems such as performance issues, security vulnerabilities, and resilience issues and make the necessary changes on your staging environment. Run the tests again to make sure all is okay. Fourth Step, Deploy—push your latest version to production and re-run the tests to make sure you have a solid baseline with none of the previously discovered issues. Fifth Step, Shakeup—periodically re-run the same tests and see if everything still holds up. If problems are discovered, have development resources in place to prepare a quick patch, so you don’t have to wait for the next release.

2020.05.28

Case Studies 2020.02.26

Keysight vTaps and Vision ONE Address Changing Government Infrastructure

Keysight vTaps and Vision ONE Address Changing Government Infrastructure

This federal agency was moving to a fully virtualized data center, which introduced significant monitoring blind spots for east-west traffic. Investing in Keysight's virtualized visibility platform, the agency eliminated blind spots caused by east-west traffic and improved the effectiveness of their monitoring solutions.

2020.02.26

Case Studies 2020.05.26

Analyzing Virtual Healthcare Data at Full Network Performance

Analyzing Virtual Healthcare Data at Full Network Performance

This large health insurance provider uses server virtualization to achieve scale and efficiency. They needed a visibility solution to secure network traffic between virtual machines while filtering out personal data to maintain compliance. Read how Ixia helped them find a solution that saved them 11 months and $300k.

2020.05.26

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