Gigamon Systems recently  introduced GigaVUE-MP Version 2.0 sits on the network, but being out-of-band means the appliance extracts data and feeds it to today's variety of monitoring products, without interrupting the traffic flow.

Gigamon vice president of marketing and sales Tom Gallatin compared the appliance to a power strip -- it's a place to plug in network tools to get data, without interrupting the flow of traffic. Those tools include sniffers, VoIP analyzers, intrusion detection and prevention systems, network monitors and data recorders.

"You're not interfering with other tools and devices," Gallatin said. "It's like a utility socket for data."

Steve Steinke, senior network analyst at The 451 Group, a New York research firm, said instead of plugging certain tools into the one or two SPAN ports on a switch, network managers can plug them into the GigaVUE, which offers several ports, to extract diagnostic and forensic data.

"It's there to monitor and gather information on the traffic without being in line with the traffic," he said. "It's kind of like a separate network. You plug it into the network at a central point and you can do your forensic, diagnostic and management jobs."

GigaVUE-MP is a Data-Access Switch to enable "sharing" and "mapping" of replica traffic from multiple data access points (1G or 10G SPAN ports and taps) to multiple out-of-band monitoring tools (including 10G IDS).

GigaVUE-MP improves network uptime and enables more flexible network monitoring and troubleshooting while using fewer, less expensive and less intrusive tools, saving money on both capital equipment and operational cost.

GigaVUE-MP connects any IDS, sniffers, SOX compliance probes, database transactions monitors, VoIP analyzers, application performance monitors and forensic data recorders to any SPAN ports and taps, at any time, from anywhere, without impacting or loading the production network.

GigaVUE's latest incarnation includes advanced mapping and 10 Gbit scalability and allows "any-to-any" connectivity from multiple data sources to multiple network monitoring tools. GigaVUE-MP 2.0 has 20 ports of 10/100/1000 Ethernet, 1U modular chassis and is stackable up to 32 chassis for 640 ports.

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