Ixia has announced it has expanded the company’s growing visibility portfolio of Vision network packet brokers (NPBs) with Vision Edge 40 (10/40G platform) and Vision Edge 100 (100G platform). These new cost-effective and scalable solutions help IT teams supporting hyperscale and microscale data centres, resolve application performance bottlenecks, trouble shoot problems, and improve data centre automation, as well as better utilise network analysis and security tools. Today’s hyperscale data centres, which are designed for expansion, as well as micro data centres, which often sit on the network edge closer to end users for an improved experience, can create significant challenges for IT organisations. These challenges range from poor network performance due to increasing size and complexity, to security issues resulting from insufficient visibility into incident detection and resolution. Many IT organisations use multiple network monitoring tools, and need to efficiently transport network traffic from thousands of network locations.
Ixia’s solutions for highly scalable and expanding data centres
Ixia’s Vision portfolio of NPBs provides intelligent, sophisticated, and programmable network flow optimisation, delivering comprehensive visibility and security coverage. The new Vision Edge 40 and Vision Edge 100 offer real-time visibility, insight, and security into high density hyperscale and microscale data centres, even as they expand. Each is capable of inline and out-of-band deployments, and delivers control, coverage, and performance to protect and improve crucial networking, data centre, and cloud business assets.
Vision Edge 40 and Vision Edge 100 offer the following customer benefits:
- Ease-of use
- Point-and-click web-interface offers an intuitive network-to-tools layout, enabling users to easily translate to real-life physical configurations
- 3-stages of filtering: ingress, dynamic, and egress; naturally providing a built-in capability for AND/OR logic, and simplifying configuration of complex Boolean filtering rules
- Performance
- Top of the rack aggregation supported at the required throughput eliminates blind spots
- Multi-speed capability, can be used for initial deployments and scaled for the required throughput
- Visibility Intelligence
- Dynamic filter compiler auto-resolves overlapping filter rules to help eliminate errors
- Aggregation, replication, load balancing, and source port labelling helps ensure tools get the right data at the right speed
“IT management will appreciate the flexibility and agility of Vision Edge 40 and Vision Edge 100,” says Recep Ozdag, Vice President of Product Management at Ixia. “They can build a data-centre at any size, and leverage a standalone NPB that does everything they need right out of the box, while also having the best balance of features and value, which is crucial for managing an efficient and cost effective IT operation.”
Ixia’s Security Fabric Powers Visibility
Ixia’s Vision Edge 40 and Vision Edge 100 can be used as standalone devices or as part of a robust Security Fabric™ when combined with Ixia’s turnkey Vision ONE™ network packet broker. This combination creates a powerful visibility engine that delivers the right traffic to the right security and monitoring tools, while enabling customers to leverage Ixia’s advanced visibility intelligence features in Vision ONE to optimise traffic analysis and security tool performance. These include PacketStack capabilities, which offer intelligent packet filtering, manipulation, and transport, as well as AppStack capabilities, which filter and visualise not only Level 2-4 traffic, but also Layer 7 application traffic, so that suspicious applications can be tagged and watched.
About Ixia
Ixia, recently acquired by Keysight Technologies, provides testing, visibility, and security solutions, strengthening applications across physical and virtual networks for enterprises, service providers, and network equipment manufactures. Ixia offers companies trusted environments in which to develop, deploy, and operate. Customers worldwide rely on Ixia to verify their designs, optimise their performance, and ensure protection of their networks to make their applications stronger. Learn more at www.ixiacom.com.
About Keysight Technologies
Keysight Technologies helps customers bring breakthrough electronic products and systems to market faster and at a lower cost. Keysight’s solutions go where the electronic signal goes, from design simulation, to prototype validation, to manufacturing test, to optimization in the network. Customers span the worldwide communications ecosystem, internet infrastructure, aerospace & defence, automotive, semiconductor and general electronics end markets. Keysight generated revenues of $2.9B in fiscal year 2016. More information is available at www.keysight.com.
