Growing enterprise networks and speeds overwhelm appliances struggling at 10Gb—let alone 25G/40G/100G+—as complex threat analytics strain scarce compute. The issue: excessive data, insufficient processing. Metadata like NetFlow provides the solution. Gigamon's Deep Observability Pipeline software generates Application Metadata Intelligence NetFlow, extracting over 7,000 L2-L7 attributes from traffic via GigaSMART, reducing volumes dramatically while preserving rich context. This offloads appliances, boosts tool performance, enables advanced analytics, and turns data overload into actionable insights for security and monitoring.

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