100Gps Network Upgrade Is No Problem at the University of South Carolina

Challenges

• 10Gbs to 100Gps network upgrade project strained network monitoring and security infrastructure
• 6X duplicate packets swamped some network monitoring tools
• Users number in the tens of thousands spread out across multiple buildings on hundreds of acres

Solution

• A secondary data center, with GigaVUE^® TA-100 and GigaVUE TA-10 Series edge traffic aggregation nodes, forwards aggregated traffic back to the primary datacenter
• GigaSMART^® traffic intelligence module for packet de-duplication
• GigaStream^® technology across all of hardware platforms for load balancing
• Gigamon Security Delivery Platform routes traffic into a suite of tools for analysis

Benefits

• Upgraded network from 10Gbps to 100Gbps while maintaining pervasive visibility into network traffic
• Deduplicated network packets by a factor of six
• Reduce irrelevant traffic inbound to monitoring tools by 75 percent by filtering Netflix, YouTube and similar traffic
  
• Reduced network latency and improved tool utilization
• Load balancing across datacenters
• Improved efficiency by weighting traffic delivery to match tool processing capabilities or port bandwidth capacity