Gigamon

Gigamon provides advanced network visibility and traffic management solutions designed to give enterprises, data centers, service providers, and security teams greater control over data in motion.

Gigamon visibility platforms acquire network traffic from physical and virtual sources, aggregate and intelligently filter traffic, and deliver the relevant data to security, performance monitoring, and observability tools. This approach helps organizations reduce monitoring blind spots while improving the efficiency of their existing tools.

Data Access and Traffic Aggregation

Gigamon Data Access solutions provide a centralized layer between network infrastructure and monitoring or security tools.

Traffic Aggregators collect traffic from network TAPs and SPAN ports across different network segments and locations. The aggregated traffic can then be selectively forwarded to the appropriate monitoring and security systems.

Key Capabilities

• Network traffic aggregation
• TAP and SPAN traffic acquisition
• Intelligent traffic filtering
• Selective traffic forwarding
• Traffic replication
• Load balancing across monitoring tools
• Packet deduplication
• Packet slicing
• Traffic tunneling
• Application-aware traffic filtering
• Network and application metadata generation
• Centralized traffic management

Intelligent Traffic Filtering

Modern monitoring environments can generate enormous volumes of network traffic. Sending every packet to every monitoring or security appliance can unnecessarily consume processing capacity, storage, and bandwidth.

Gigamon traffic intelligence solutions help optimize this flow by filtering, deduplicating, load-balancing, and transforming traffic before it reaches downstream tools.

Application Filtering Intelligence can identify applications and direct only relevant traffic to the tools that require it. Gigamon states that its application intelligence can identify more than 4,000 applications and provide Layer 7 visibility for granular traffic control.

Security and Performance Monitoring

Gigamon solutions help security and IT teams obtain deeper visibility into network traffic so that monitoring and security tools can inspect the information they actually need.

By providing the appropriate traffic streams to IDS, IPS, SIEM, network monitoring, application performance monitoring, and packet analysis platforms, Gigamon helps improve tool utilization while reducing unnecessary traffic processing.

Security Monitoring

• Network traffic visibility
• Security tool traffic optimization
• Threat detection support
• IDS/IPS traffic delivery
• SIEM traffic optimization
• East-West traffic visibility
• Application-aware filtering
• SSL/TLS traffic visibility and processing
• Security analytics support
• Data masking and protection

Performance Monitoring

• Network performance visibility
• Application performance analysis
• Traffic utilization monitoring
• Packet-level visibility
• Network troubleshooting
• Performance bottleneck identification
• Application traffic analysis
• Root-cause investigation

GigaVUE Visibility Appliances

Gigamon GigaVUE visibility appliances provide a centralized platform for accessing and managing traffic across enterprise networks and data centers.

The GigaVUE HC Series is designed for scalable traffic visibility and intelligence, while the GigaVUE TA Series focuses on traffic aggregation from multiple TAPs, SPAN ports, and virtual traffic sources. Both can selectively forward traffic to monitoring and security tools.

Traffic Intelligence

Gigamon GigaSMART technologies provide additional traffic processing capabilities that help optimize the data delivered to downstream tools.

Depending on the configuration, capabilities can include:

• Flow Mapping
• Traffic filtering
• Advanced load balancing
• Packet deduplication
• Packet slicing
• Data masking
• Application filtering
• Application metadata generation
• NetFlow/IPFIX generation
• SSL/TLS decryption

These capabilities allow organizations to transform raw network traffic into more useful and targeted information for security, monitoring, and analytics platforms.

Deep Network Visibility

Gigamon's visibility architecture follows a multi-stage approach to network observability: acquiring traffic, brokering it to the appropriate tools, transforming and optimizing the traffic, and enriching it with network and application context.

This architecture helps organizations address common monitoring challenges such as:

• Network visibility gaps
• Excessive monitoring traffic
• Tool overload
• Duplicate packets
• Security blind spots
• Limited monitoring capacity
• Complex hybrid infrastructure
• Increasing network traffic volumes

Hybrid and Multi-Cloud Visibility

Gigamon visibility capabilities extend beyond traditional physical networks into virtualized, private cloud, public cloud, and hybrid environments.

GigaVUE Cloud Suite provides visibility into traffic moving across cloud workloads, virtual machines, containers, and hybrid infrastructure while enabling traffic aggregation, filtering, load balancing, and transformation.

Typical Applications

Network Monitoring

Provide monitoring platforms with the network traffic required to analyze infrastructure performance and availability.

Security Monitoring

Deliver relevant traffic to security tools for threat detection, investigation, and incident response.

Data Center Visibility

Aggregate and manage traffic across complex data center environments while maintaining centralized visibility.

Application Performance Monitoring

Provide application-aware network data to help identify performance bottlenecks and connectivity issues.

Network Troubleshooting

Give engineers detailed packet and flow visibility to accelerate fault isolation and root-cause analysis.

Hybrid Cloud Monitoring

Extend network visibility across physical, virtual, container, private cloud, and public cloud environments.

Benefits

Eliminate Network Blind Spots

Gain access to relevant traffic across network, data center, and cloud environments.

Optimize Security Tools

Deliver only the traffic that security tools need to inspect, helping reduce unnecessary processing.

Improve Monitoring Efficiency

Aggregate, filter, deduplicate, and load-balance traffic before forwarding it to monitoring platforms.

Reduce Tool Overload

Prevent monitoring and security appliances from being overwhelmed by unnecessary or duplicate traffic.

Accelerate Troubleshooting

Provide detailed network-derived information that helps engineers identify performance issues and security events more quickly.

Scale with Network Growth

Support visibility across increasingly distributed enterprise, data center, and hybrid cloud infrastructures.

Typical Users

Gigamon visibility and traffic management solutions are suitable for:

• Enterprise IT organizations
• Telecommunications providers
• Data center operators
• Network operations teams
• Security operations teams
• Cloud operations teams
• Network engineers
• Security engineers
• SOC teams
• Application performance teams
• Managed service providers

Smarter Access to Network Data

Gigamon transforms network traffic from an overwhelming stream of packets into targeted, actionable information for monitoring, security, and observability tools.

By combining traffic acquisition, aggregation, intelligent filtering, transformation, and application-aware visibility, Gigamon solutions help organizations improve network observability, strengthen security monitoring, optimize tool performance, and reduce operational complexity.