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GigaVUE ROI

Gigamon Return on InvestmentWhy Gigamon? Instant Network Monitoring ROI
Gigamon® is the market leader in traffic visibility technology for network monitoring and analysis. Gigamon allows our
customers to:

  • Monitor critical data from high speed ports with lower speed tools.
  • Interface with ANY tool for ANY traffic, at ANY time.
  • Deploy tools much more intelligently and efficiently.
  • Solve the contention for SPAN ports or TAPs when multiple tools are required. 
    Eliminate engineering change order delays.
  • Provide a very secure out-of-band “data socket” that allows flexibility in connecting and disconnecting tools in a production environment without waiting for maintenance windows.

Customer Status
An enterprise customer continues to add more 10Gbps ports. In addition, the customer is evaluating new tools to be more vigilant in understanding discrete critical application transactions for compliance auditors.

Customer Problem
Tools need to connect to several 10Gbps and 1Gbps ports. The customer wants to consolidate tools and protect the investments made. High speed connections create a need to filter unwanted information so that tools are not oversubscribed. Added to this dilemma the customer could not plug and unplug tools indiscriminately in a production environment due to security constraints. The customer needed to collect critical data at various points on the network and was presented with a proposal that included 224 probes totaling $1.8 million dollars.

Gigamon Solution
Gigamon deploys TAPs directly into several 10G ports and aggregates the traffic eliminating the need to connect very expensive tools on each connection in question. Furthermore, Gigamon filters the traffic on the ingress and egress ports which allows specific tools connected to the GigaVUE to analyze the data at speeds ranging from 10/100/1000 bps.

Over $1.4M Saved in Capitol Expenditures

Original Plan: Use lots of probes everywhere

  • 224 probes at $8,000 is approximately $1.8M
  • IT staff needed to correlate data from various points and maintain the latest version on each probe.

Plan B: Span port aggregation to reduce probes

  • Intermittent packet drop would cause inaccuracy in reports used by compliance auditors.
  • Customer needed to add SPAN ports and upgrade to 10G SPAN ports which would reach havoc with the switches performance.

Final Solution: GigaVUE's + TAPs + centralized tools = $359,000

  • 22 Probe = $160,000
  • 24 network TAPs = $10,000
  • 3 GigaVUE units = $189,000

Original Plan = $1,792,000
Final Solution = $359,000
Total Savings = $1,433,000