As part of Gigamon Hawk, the Hybrid Cloud Gigamon Visibility and Analytics Fabric™ (VAF), GigaVUE-HC1 is a compact advanced visibility node that incorporates a broad spectrum of core intelligence packet brokering capabilities, provided by GigaVUE-OS, and intelligent GigaSMART^® traffic transformation and forwarding capabilities including Traffic Intelligence and Application Intelligence.

The GigaVUE-HC1 base chassis contains a built-in GigaSMART engine as well as RJ-45 and SFP+ ports. It also supports a range of pluggable modules, such as for SFP ports, SFP+ ports, QSFP+ ports, GigaSMART engines, fiber network TAPs, fiber bypass TAPs and copper bypass/network TAPs. The bypass TAP port-pairs have programmable fail open (fail-to-wire) or fail closed (block) protection.

GigaVUE-FM provides single-pane-of-glass view fabric management through which users can manage and orchestrate the entire VAF as well as use Fabric Maps to increase visibility scale and reach across hundreds of nodes.

• Small enterprises that need network traffic visibility for security and network monitoring
• Remote sites requiring analysis of metadata and/or raw traffic feeds
• Service providers wanting to maximize service assurance and experience of subscribers by monitoring traffic at edge sites
• Healthcare, education and financial IT departments securing sensitive data across a distributed infrastructure