Ixia Expands Visibility Portfolio to Support Micro to Hyperscale Data Centers
Delivers New Network Packet Brokers - Vision Edge 40 and Vision Edge 100
Ixia, a leading provider of network testing, visibility, and security solutions, today announced it has expanded
the company’s growing visibility portfolio of Vision network packet brokers (NPBs) with Vision Edge™ 40 (10/40G platform) and Vision Edge 100 (100G platform).
These new cost-effective and scalable solutions help IT teams supporting hyperscale and microscale data centers, resolve
application performance bottlenecks, trouble shoot problems, and improve data center automation, as well as better utilize network
analysis and security tools.
Today’s hyperscale data centers, which are designed for expansion, as well as micro data centers, which often sit on the network
edge closer to end users for an improved experience, can create significant challenges for IT organizations. These challenges range
from poor network performance due to increasing size and complexity, to security issues resulting from insufficient visibility into
incident detection and resolution. Many IT organizations use multiple network monitoring tools, and need to efficiently transport
network traffic from thousands of network locations.
Ixia’s solutions for highly scalable and expanding data centers
Ixia’s Vision portfolio of NPBs provides intelligent, sophisticated, and programmable network flow optimization, delivering
comprehensive visibility and security coverage. The new Vision Edge 40 and Vision Edge 100 offer real-time visibility, insight, and
security into high density hyperscale and microscale data centers, even as they expand. Each is capable of inline and out-of-band
deployments, and delivers control, coverage, and performance to protect and improve crucial networking, data center, and cloud
business assets.
Vision Edge 40 and Vision Edge 100 offer the following customer benefits:
- Ease-of use
- Point-and-click web-interface offers an intuitive network-to-tools layout, enabling users to
easily translate to real-life physical configurations
- 3-stages of filtering: ingress, dynamic, and egress; naturally providing a built-in capability
for AND/OR logic, and simplifying configuration of complex Boolean filtering rules
- Performance
- Top of the rack aggregation supported at the required throughput eliminates blind spots
- Multi-speed capability, can be used for initial deployments and scaled for the required
throughput
- Visibility Intelligence
- Dynamic filter compiler auto-resolves overlapping filter rules to help eliminate errors
- Aggregation, replication, load balancing, and source port labeling helps ensure tools get the
right data at the right speed
“IT management will appreciate the flexibility and agility of Vision Edge 40 and Vision Edge 100,” says Recep Ozdag, Vice
President of Product Management at Ixia. “They can build a data-center at any size, and leverage a standalone NPB that does
everything they need right out of the box, while also having the best balance of features and value, which is crucial for managing
an efficient and cost effective IT operation.”
Ixia’s Security Fabric Powers Visibility
Ixia’s Vision Edge 40 and Vision Edge 100 can be used as standalone devices or as part of a robust Security Fabric™ when combined with Ixia’s turnkey Vision ONE™ network packet broker. This combination creates a powerful visibility engine that delivers the right
traffic to the right security and monitoring tools, while enabling customers to leverage Ixia’s advanced visibility intelligence
features in Vision ONE to optimize traffic analysis and security tool performance. These include PacketStack capabilities, which offer intelligent packet filtering, manipulation, and transport, as well as
AppStack capabilities, which filter and visualize not only Level 2-4 traffic, but also Layer 7 application
traffic, so that suspicious applications can be tagged and watched.
About Ixia
Ixia, recently acquired by Keysight Technologies, provides testing, visibility, and security solutions, strengthening
applications across physical and virtual networks for enterprises, service providers, and network equipment manufactures. Ixia
offers companies trusted environments in which to develop, deploy, and operate. Customers worldwide rely on Ixia to verify their
designs, optimize their performance, and ensure protection of their networks to make their applications stronger. Learn more at
www.ixiacom.com.
About Keysight Technologies
Keysight Technologies (NYSE: KEYS) helps customers bring breakthrough electronic products and systems to market faster and at a
lower cost. Keysight's solutions go where the electronic signal goes, from design simulation, to prototype validation, to
manufacturing test, to optimization in the network. Customers span the worldwide communications ecosystem, internet infrastructure,
aerospace & defense, automotive, semiconductor and general electronics end markets. Keysight generated revenues of $2.9B in
fiscal year 2016. More information is available at www.keysight.com.
Ixia, the Ixia logo, Vision Edge, Security Fabric, Vision ONE, PacketStack, and AppStack are trademarks or registered trademarks
of Ixia in the United States and other jurisdictions. All other trademarks used herein are the property of their respective
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