Silicon Valley, CA - July 09, 2007 - Gigamon Systems, the leading provider of data access solutions for out of-band network monitoring,
announces the availability of its new GigaVUE® V.3.5 software. This release builds on the previous version 3.0
which added 10 Gigabit Ethernet support, large scale stacking capability, and innovative map-based smart
connection technology which allows for the distribution of packets to various destination onitoring tools.
Acting on packet parameters such as network or MAC addresses, VLAN, protocol, or application ports, the
packets are mapped to the desired customer monitoring tools of any variety or speed capability, up to 10
Gigabits. This capability allows for multiple network monitoring, security, compliance, or troubleshooting tools
access to any traffic from any switch or link in the data center, without affecting the, most valuable, real data
flow. Further more, it keeps the “fire hose” effects of traffic from overwhelming the network monitoring tools
while allowing them to focus on their specialty area of analysis or reporting.
Version 3.5 advances the concept of unobtrusive out-of-band network monitoring, by supporting additional
security features including SSH2 for more secure access to manage the GigaVUE®, RADIUS authentication
and TACACS user privileges along with new extensive features like support for an IPv6 management plane.
V3.5 adds support for SNMP V1 and V2 traps which allows the Gigamon product to be an active part of your
NMS.
The previous versions allowed for predefined filtering, like MAC address, IP address. However version 3.5 now
allows for user defined pattern matching as filters or map rules for dissemination of appropriate traffic to the
correct monitoring, management or compliance tool.
V3.5 also includes subtle but important support for SNTP access for time correction and correlation,
customizable banner for server identification and the ability to store and recall multiple GigaVUE® connection
configuration files.
Since its inception, the GigaVUE® has allowed management, monitoring, reporting and other customer tools to
work more efficiently by analyzing only the information they need, rather than being overwhelmed by all of the
network traffic. The new GigaVUE® 3.5’s new features enhances the GigaVUE® with more versatile filters, better
management security, SNMP support, and ability to be managed in an IPV6 network.
According to J. Scott Haugdahl, WildPackets CTO, “10 Gigabit Ethernet can generate up to several terabytes of data
every hour. GigaVUE® provides an efficient “divide and conquer” approach to breaking down this massive amount of
traffic into far more manageable streams for use by multiple analysis tools, including intelligent distributed appliances
such as the OmniPeek Analysis Platform. One can filter and feed only firewall or server or VLAN traffic or with the new
pattern matching capability in GigaVUE® 3.5, just about anything imaginable into one or more tools for parallel stream
processing. This allows one to efficiently handle far more traffic, including storage of such data for forensics and
compliance purposes as well as real time analysis.”
The extensive and versatile capability of GigaVUE® allows for the most capable and flexible network security, monitoring,
and troubleshooting available to today’s network managers and reduces the need for intrusive tools. GigaVUE®’s
flexibility enables network managers to meet the ever more onerous management challenges of today’s enterprise
networks while maintaining security and full access to the required data.
About Gigamon
Founded in 2003 by six veterans of network monitoring and telecommunications
equipment companies, Gigamon Systems is the inventor and leading provider of Data-Access Switches. Its flagship product, GigaVUE®, can multicast packets from one span or
tap to many tools to solve the span port sharing problem. It also can aggregate and
intelligently filter packets from many spans or taps to one or multiple tools to solve the
problem of monitoring flows across complex mesh topologies and virtual networks.
GigaVUE® facilitates unobtrusive parallel tool deployment with network-wide coverage,
significantly reducing customers’ capital budgets and yielding immediate ROI benefits.
For more information about Gigamon and their award winning solutions, visit www.gigamon.com or call 408-263-2022.
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