SAN DIEGO, June 8, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Today at Cisco
Live, Cisco's annual IT and communications conference, Gigamon Inc.
(NYSE: GIMO), the leader in traffic visibility solutions with its
innovative Unified Visibility Fabric™, announced that JDSU (NASDAQ:
JDSU) is developing closed loop integration plugins that support
Gigamon's breakthrough innovation – Software Defined Visibility, a
framework that allows customers, security and network equipment
vendors, as well as managed service providers, to control and
program Gigamon's Visibility Fabric via REST-based APIs.
"We are excited to be working with Gigamon to integrate with
APIs that support Software Defined Visibility," said Charles Thompson, senior director, Product Line
Management for JDSU. "With this integration, we envision a
multitude of possibilities where our customers can automate traffic
visibility, so that they can focus their resources on other
mission-critical activities."
Software Defined Visibility and JDSU – Solving Critical
Issues for Network Visibility
There are several use cases in which JDSU plans to utilize
Software Defined Visibility. The following will be presented at
Cisco Live, Cisco's annual IT and communications conference:
- Session-based Filtering – JDSU will take advantage of
Gigamon's Adaptive Packet Filtering capabilities to dynamically
drop unwanted 'streaming' traffic such as Netflix or YouTube,
thereby reducing the demand on monitoring appliance storage
capacity.
- IPv4 and IPv6 Traffic Filtering – As more networks begin
deployment of IPv6 along with legacy IPv4 infrastructure, JDSU
expects customers will need to selectively filter v4 and v6
traffic. Leveraging the intelligent filtering of the Gigamon
Visibility Fabric, network administrators can rest assured knowing
that they have comprehensive visibility and a future-proof path to
simplify IPv6 adoption without creating new blind spots.
- Reduce 'Mean Time To Resolution' – To assist with faster
diagnosis of traffic anomalies, the ability to enhance captured
packets that are subsequently stored on JDSU's GigaStor appliances
will improve diagnosis accuracy and focus. Through the
addition of Gigamon's "Flow Mapping" meta-data and "network
neighbor" discovery information, Network Operators will be able to
evaluate network incidents more effectively and isolate issues to
specific segments of the network infrastructure.
"Having partners like JDSU on board and adopting our recently
released APIs accelerates our Software Defined Visibility market
momentum," said Ananda Rajagopal, VP
of Product Line Management at Gigamon. "Not only is JDSU at the
forefront of adoption, they are validating the market need for
pervasive and active visibility. Their API-based development
demonstrates the true power and flexibility that a programmatic
framework can provide to quickly and automatically react to changes
in network conditions."
Software Defined Visibility – Enabled by GigaVUE-FM Fabric
Manager
GigaVUE-FM 3.0 Fabric Manager enables Software Defined
Visibility. It delivers a single pane-of-glass view of both
physical and virtual nodes across the Visibility Fabric, while
providing an easy-to-use, wizard-based approach for configuring
Flow Mapping® and GigaSMART® traffic policies. A single instance of
GigaVUE-FM can manage hundreds of visibility nodes across multiple
locations delivering more than a quarter of a million physical and
virtual ports.
Flow Mapping technology reduces traffic and improves analyzer
performance. Flow Mapping is a patented technology at the heart of
Gigamon's GigaVUE Visibility Fabric nodes that takes line-rate
traffic at 1Gb, 10Gb, 40Gb or 100Gb from a network TAP or a
SPAN/mirror port (physical or virtual) and then optimizes flows
based on individual traffic profiles of the tools and applications
that secure, monitor, and analyze the network infrastructure.
GigaSMART technology extends the intelligence and value of the
Gigamon Visibility Fabric architecture by enhancing monitoring
infrastructure and improving tool performance. A suite of
applications is available to enable modification, manipulation,
transformation, and transport of traffic from the network to the
tools and appliances used for management, monitoring and
security.
About Gigamon
Gigamon provides an intelligent Visibility Fabric™ architecture
for enterprises, data centers and service providers around the
globe. Gigamon's technology empowers infrastructure architects,
managers and operators with pervasive and dynamic intelligent
visibility of traffic across both physical and virtual environments
without affecting the performance or stability of the production
network. Through patented technologies and centralized management,
the Gigamon GigaVUE portfolio of high availability and high-density
products intelligently delivers the appropriate network traffic to
management, analysis, compliance and security tools. Gigamon has
been designing and building traffic visibility products since 2004
and its solutions are deployed globally across vertical markets
including over half of the Fortune 100 and many government and
federal agencies. Learn more at www.gigamon.com, the Gigamon Blog,
or follow Gigamon on Twitter, LinkedIn or Facebook.
About JDSU
JDSU (NASDAQ: JDSU) innovates and collaborates with customers to
build and operate the highest-performing and highest-value networks
in the world. Our diverse technology portfolio also fights
counterfeiting and enables high-powered commercial lasers for a
range of applications. Learn more about JDSU at www.jdsu.com and
follow us on JDSU Perspectives, Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn.
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Forward-looking statements in this press release include, but are
not limited to, our expectations regarding the evolution of our
marketplace, our strategic product initiatives, potential use cases
for software defined visibility and goals for our Unified
Visibility Fabric architecture and API adoption and development by
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may not materialize, and actual results in future periods are
subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results
to differ materially from those projected. These risks include our
ability to continue to deliver and improve our products and
successfully develop new products; our ability to retain existing
customers and generate new customers; the market for network
traffic visibility solutions not continuing to develop; competition
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