Case Study
Fortune 500 Retail Company - Packet loss & Network blind spots
IXIA VISIBILITY SOLUTIONS CASE STUDY Fortune 500 Retail Company Introduction This case study of a Fortune 500 retail company is based on an August 2016 survey of Ixia visibility solutions customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service. The profiled company asked to have their name blinded to protect their confidentiality. “We use our taps and packet broker to deduplicate traffic destined for our Riverbed SteelCentral ARX system. The configuration we’ve deployed allows for capture of traffic from the data center while deduplicating traffic, saving processor on the ARX appliance. The integration with the taps allows for the WAN traffic to also be aggregated and analyzed, which is “ important for us, as WAN acceleration is deployed inline.” Challenges The business challenges that led