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GigaSMART

GigaSMART

The Industry’s First Line Rate Packet Modification Technology

The GigaSMART® blade enables an entirely new way to enhance monitoring tools, allowing tools to perform analysis more efficiently and accurately.

A networking industry first, the GigaSMART blade significantly enhances the capabilities of the Gigamon GigaVUE-2404 Traffic Visibility Node, creating the ability to modify packets at line-rate, and add valuable information through the GigaSMART network appliances including packet slicing, masking, network port labeling, time stamping, IP tunneling and de-duplication.

Network monitoring tools can now perform more efficiently by eliminating unwanted content with the packet slicing module. Masking allows network security teams to hide confidential information like passwords, financial accounts, or medical data allowing companies to meet SOX, HIPAA and PCI compliance regulations. Organizations can also add source or timing information at the point of collection with the network port labeling capabilities.

Features & Benefits

  • Eliminate processing and storage bottlenecks
  • Enhance security of network tools
  • Help pinpoint critical network performance issues
  • Easily filter based on network source information

Packet Slicing

  • Reduce packet size to increase processing and monitoring
    throughput
  • Optimize the deployment of forensic recorder tools

Masking

  • Conceal private data including financial and medical information
  • Empower network monitoring tools to perform their task and maintain PCI and HIPAA compliance
  • Enable more data storage in a recorder application

Network Port Labeling

  • Add labels to the packets indicating the ingress port
  • Easily identify where a packet is coming from easily
  • Enhance the efficiency of your network monitoring tools
    by eliminating the potential of duplicate data streams

Time Stamping

  • Add Packet time stamps at line rate for subsequent analysis
  • Troubleshoot and measure application response times jitter and latency

Stripping

  • Eliminate the need for monitoring tools to decipher protocols associated with MPLS labels and VLAN’s.
  • Allow easy filtering, aggregation, and load-balancing of packets with headers removed

IP Tunneling

  • Encapsulate and forward packets to monitoring tools between networks on separate routed paths
  • Enable routing of data from lights-out data centers to central monitoring facilities

De-duplication

  • Relieve tool processing resources in asymmetrical networks by only forwarding a packet once
  • Remove packet duplication caused by inter-VLAN communication or incorrect switch configuration

GigaSMART options:

  • SMT-436: GigaSMART 6 port 2404 blade only, no licenses included on base model
  • SMT-SLC: GigaSMART-Slice feature module license per GigaSMART blade
  • SMT-TSP: GigaSMART-Time stamp feature module license per GigaSMART blade
  • SMT-MSK: GigaSMART-Masking feature module license per GigaSMART blade
  • SMT-SRC: GigaSMART-Source Port feature module license per GigaSMART blade
  • SMT-HST: GigaSMART-Stripping feature module license per GigaSMART blade
  • SMT-TUN:  GigaSMART-IP Tunneling feature module license per GigaSMART blade
  • SMT-DDP: GigaSMART-De-duplication feature module license per GigaSMART blade