Case Study
Gigamon Resolves Security Issues for Large Cable Firm with GigaVUE’s Authenticated Integrated TAPs
The Smart Route To Visibility TM Gigamon Resolves Security Issues for Large Cable Firm with GigaVUE’s Authenticated Integrated TAPs // Case Study 1 Business Challenge Different departments within the company had their own network monitoring tools. Everyone wanted access to the same data streams through SPAN ports or TAPs. But SPAN ports were limited, creating port contention among monitoring tools. And dropped packets were an ongoing problem associated with 10 GigE SPAN ports. Furthermore, mirroring often caused packets to be re-timed, resulting in inaccurate performance monitoring statistics. The company could gather more accurate traffic data through multiple TAPs, but that required costly and time-consuming manual aggregation of data. While SPAN ports and TAPs provided ac