Ixia,
a leading provider of network testing, visibility, and security
solutions, today 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 centers, resolve application
performance bottlenecks, trouble shoot problems, and improve data center
automation, as well as better utilize network analysis and security
tools.
Today's
hyperscale data centers, which are designed for expansion, as well as
micro data centers, which often sit on the network edge closer to end
users for an improved experience, can create significant challenges for
IT organizations. 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
organizations 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 centers
Ixia's
Vision portfolio of NPBs provides intelligent, sophisticated, and
programmable network flow optimization, 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 centers, 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 center, 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 labeling 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-center 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 optimize 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 visualize not only Level 2-4 traffic, but also Layer 7
application traffic, so that suspicious applications can be tagged and
watched.