Today’s networks are growing in both size and complexity, presenting new challenges for IT and network administrators. More mobile devices are now connecting to more data from more sources—and much of that is due to virtualization. IT challenges are further complicated by increasingly high customer expectations for always-on access and immediate application response. This complexity creates network “blind spots” where latent errors germinate and pre-attack activity lurks.
Network blind spots have become a costly and risk-flled challenge for network operators. Further, unseen inter-VM and cross-blade data center trafc leaves the network vulnerable to threats, noncompliance, loss of availability, and impaired performance. Today, up to 80 percent of data center traffic can travel between servers, making end-to-end visibility a real challenge. The answer to these challenges is a highly scalable visibility architecture that helps eliminate blind spots, while providing resilience and control without complexity. Ixia’s Visibility Architecture delivers intelligent, resilient, and proactive network visibility.
IXIA’S VISIBILITY SOLUTIONS
The IxVision architecture is founded on a comprehensive product portfolio of high-performance taps, virtual taps, bypass switches, and NPBs, all easily deployed and managed. IxVision helps speed application delivery and enables efective troubleshooting and monitoring for network security, application performance, and SLA fulfllment and allows IT to meet compliance mandates.
IxVision provides a solution to support both out-of-band and inline monitoring in the physical and virtual network.
IMPROVED VISIBILITY WITH IXIA
Ixia’s Visibility Architecture improves performance by providing:
• Full network visibility – Consistently send all the right data to the right tools by matching multiple flter criteria, eliminating dropped packets due to overlapping flter con?icts.
• Automated response technology – Instantly re-route trafc to monitoring tools based on suspicious activity so that you can reduce the time and cost of human intervention to remediate network problems
• Load balancing – Distribute monitoring traffic to several analysis tools so that you can fully use network bandwidth and boost the efciency of your monitoring tools, even if they are lagging the network in bandwidth
• Sophisticated fltering and de-duplication – Increase monitoring tool performance by eliminating unnecessary data before it reaches the tool so that you can more easily adhere to compliance standards and generate more accurate tool statistics
• Zero packet loss – Deliver 100% of packets without dropping or losing them due to load
• Easy-to-use – Ixia’s NPBs are powered by a user-friendly drag-and-drop interface that allows you to easily connect monitoring tools to appropriate SPAN and TAP ports with the simple click of mouse
SIMPLIFIED MANAGEMENT
• Create network connections and flters by using the intuitive GUI so that you can aggregate, flter, and distribute network trafc to monitoring tools with a few clicks of the mouse and virtually eliminate the need to rewire equipment.
• Restrict access to specifc flters, ports, or monitoring tools by delivering improved access control management to meet compliance and regulatory requirements.
• From within Vision ONE, NTO, or xStream, monitor key SNMP statistics from any network management system so that you can view and report on key information, such as the amount of trafc each tool receives and instant notifcation of oversubscribed tools.
• Accommodate your organization’s increasing need for more IP addresses by easily accessing Vision ONE, NTO, or xStream using IPv4 or IPv6 addresses.
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IXIA Visibility Products |
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Vision One |
• All-in-one tool for lossless visibility for both inline and out-of-band tools • Intuitive GUI • ATIP, AFM, SSL Decryption • 48 10GbE/1GbE SFP+ ports and 4 40GbE QSFP+ or 16 port 10GbE |
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NTO 7300 (and NEBS 3 compliant 7303) Chassis |
• Highest density NPB with up to 384 ports of 10GE in 7U, including up to 192 ports of 10GE or 48 ports of 40GE AFM (Advanced Functionality) • Wire-speed performance • ATIP, AFM, Packet Capture Module |
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NTO 5293 Carrier-Grade |
• NEBS Level 1 certifed • 16 40GbE ports or up to 64 10GbE ports |
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NTO 5288 High-Density |
• Up to 64 10GbE ports • Offers an efcient and scalable solution to monitor 1, 10, and 40GbE |
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NTO 5273 High Availability, Carrier Class |
• Designed for telecommunication and cable service providers • NEBS Level 3 certifed |
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NTO 5236/ 5204 Enterprise Class |
Ideal For Enterprise |
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GTP Session Controler |
Maximize network probes and capacity while improving visibility into wireless core networks |
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Ixia ControlTower NTO 5260/5268 |
A network visibility architecture for centralized, intelligent monitoring |
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NTO 2112/2113 |
Extend core enterprise class network monitoring feature sets to branch ofces |
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AFM |
Enhance Vision ONE and NTO’s capability to aggregate, replicate, and flter network monitoring trafc |
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ATIP |
Gather real-time application data for actionable insight into network activities |
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Packet Capture Module (PCM) |
Capture packet anomalies for quick analysis and solutions at 40 GE line rate |
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xStream 40 |
Failsafe inline security network packet broker with aggregation, fltering, and load balancing for 10GbE/40GbE Networks |
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Bypass Switches |
Failsafe devices to ensure uptime and high availability of monitoring and security deployments |
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Taps, Link Aggregators, Tap Aggregators |
Captures and sends trafc of interest to the tools that are monitoring your physical network |
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Phantom vTap |
Get visibility into the trafc between virtual machines in virtualized environments |
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Hawkeye |
Automate network performance checks and improve the application delivery experience |
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Indigo Pro |
Configuration and element management for Ixia's visibility products |
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TradeView |
High performance monitoring of financial market data feeds |
We make applications stronger.
Ixia provides testing, visibility, and security solutions, strengthening applications across physical and virtual networks for enterprises and governments, service providers and network equipment manufacturers (NEMs).
Ixia helps customers manage the unpredictable world of IT and protects them against security threats through actionable insight into the performance, stability and security of their applications and networks. Whether it is testing a product, validating the integrity of a security infrastructure or monitoring a real-time operation, Ixia can help.
Customers worldwide rely on Ixia’s solutions to verify their designs, optimize their performance, and ensure protection. Ixia offers companies trusted environments in which to develop, deploy, and operate
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