Apply Application and Traffic Intelligence to Your Network
GigaSMART® applications expand capabilities in the Gigamon Deep Observability Pipeline to improve network visibility, traffic handling, and tool efficiency. Solutions include:
- Traffic Intelligence for streamlining traffic
- Application Intelligence to filter and extract app metadata
- Subscriber Intelligence for advanced 5G networks
- Security Intelligence for TLS/SSL decryption
Combine or service-chain a range of GigaSMART applications to achieve exactly the results you want.
Subscription-based GigaSMART applications are available for GigaVUE® Visibility Appliances without port- or card-based restrictions. Select GigaSMART applications are also available with the GigaVUE Cloud Suite™ for public and private cloud.
NEW APPLIANCE
Scale GigaSMART processing and metadata delivery in a compact 1RU design.
Benefits
Identify, Filter, & Enrich App Data
Use Application Intelligence to automatically discover applications, generate metadata attributes, and forward them to the appropriate tools.
Reduce Unnecessary Processing
Utilize Advanced Flow Slicing to granularly select and drop superfluous packet content to reduce traffic sent to tools by over 60 percent.
Maintain Strong Security Posture
Apply TLS/SSL decryption to decrypt traffic with the latest cipher suites and share with tools to expose malware hiding in encrypted sessions.
GigaSMART, a Critical Component of the Gigamon Deep Observability Pipeline
Essential to transform data, provide contextual insights, and keep data secure
GigaSMART Features
GigaSMART® offers several essential traffic intelligence services required for deep observability into infrastructure blind spots.
Adaptive Packet Filtering
Identifies patterns across any part of the network packet, including the packet payload.
De-duplication
Targets, identifies, and eliminates duplicate packets, blocking unnecessary duplication and sending optimized flows.
NetFlow Generation
Delivers basic Layer 2–4 network traffic data to analysis tools.
Tunneling
Alleviates blindness of business-critical traffic at remote sites, virtualized data centers, or in the public or private cloud.
Advanced Flow Slicing
Reduces bandwidth usage by slicing payloads and packets from long data flows.
Header Modification
Normalizes traffic feed to suit monitoring or security workflows.
Packet Slicing
Truncates packets while preserving the protocol headers required for network analysis.
Advanced Load Balancing
Divides and distributes traffic among multiple tools based on a variety of data points.
Masking
Provides customizable data protection by overwriting specific packet fields with a set pattern.
Source Port Labeling
Provides context to packets and identifies behaviors and threats based on network location.
Application Filtering Intelligence
Extends Layer 7 visibility to thousands of common and proprietary applications.
Application Metadata Intelligence
Provides application visibility to identify performance and quality issues, and potential security risks.
Application Visualization
Provides a complete view of the applications running on your network.
5G Correlation
Forwards subscriber sessions to specific tools by filtering on subscriber, user device, RAN, or network slice IDs.
FlowVUE Flow Sampling
Provides subscriber IP-based flow sampling.
GTP Correlation
Enables mobile service providers to monitor subscriber data in GPRS Tunneling Protocol tunnels.
SSL/TLS Decryption
Creates a secure channel between the server and the end user's computer or other devices as they exchange information.
“Gigamon is traditionally thought of as a network efficiency platform, but the underlying technology has radical implications in cybersecurity as well. Visibility of encrypted packets is more of a must-have than a like-to-have, and intelligent traffic handling is a requisite in optimizing bandwidth and reducing storage costs.”
Resources
DATA SHEET
GigaSMART
Extend the intelligence and value of your GigaVUE® appliances.
TECH BRIEF
Application Metadata Intelligence
See how AMI enriches security and observability tools with application context.
SOLUTION BRIEF
Gigamon Deep Observability Pipeline
Get a higher level of security and compliance assurance for your hybrid cloud.
Frequently Asked Questions
Network traffic intelligence is the process of collecting and analyzing network traffic in order to detect security risks, monitor performance and identify optimization opportunities. Network traffic intelligence goes beyond basic network monitoring by incorporating processes like adaptive packet filtering, de-duplication, advanced load balancing, flow slicing and more to streamline traffic, support data protection and help ensure service continuity.
GigaSMART provides enhanced network visibility by performing advanced traffic, application, subscriber, and security intelligence functions before data is delivered to monitoring and security tools. Key GigaSMART features like application visualization, source port labeling, and adaptive packet filtering enable a comprehensive and streamlined view of network activity.
Yes, GigaSMART can help significantly reduce tool sprawl. GigaSMART offers various services that aim to optimize and streamline network traffic, allowing you to easily address redundancies and inefficiencies. For example, packet de-duplication targets, identifies, and eliminates duplicate packets, blocking unnecessary duplication and sending optimized flows to your security and network monitoring tools. Used in combination with other GigaSMART features like advanced load balancing and flow slicing, your organization can avoid overloading tools and paying for unnecessary tool storage capacity.
Application metadata extraction is a crucial part of the deep observability pipeline providing high-level, context-rich insights into how applications behave and communicate across networks without needing full packet capture. It enhances visibility into application performance, usage patterns, and potential issues, enabling your team to detect problems faster, boost security posture, and reduce operational costs.
GigaSMART processes a broad spectrum of network traffic types to deliver advanced visibility and deep traffic intelligence. It supports network-level, application-level, encrypted, cloud-based, east-west, and north-south traffic. GigaSMART is designed to handle traffic at multiple layers (Layer 2 through Layer 7), making it highly versatile for both network operations and security operations.
GigaSMART helps optimize network traffic, improve tool efficiency, and generate application metadata for security and observability. GigaSMART capabilities can run on GigaVUE HC Series appliances, while the GigaSMART appliance adds dedicated processing capacity for high-scale workloads.
Hardware depends on the deployment. GigaSMART functions can run on GigaVUE HC Series appliances. For higher-scale or dedicated processing, the GigaSMART appliance extends GigaSMART capacity and connects with GigaVUE HC or TA Series deployments. GigaVUE-FM provides centralized management.
A GigaSMART appliance is a dedicated physical appliance that extends GigaSMART processing capacity within the Gigamon Deep Observability Pipeline. It can work with GigaVUE HC or TA Series deployments to add processing for high-scale workloads, including Application Metadata Intelligence and traffic optimization.
Use a GigaSMART appliance when your deployment needs additional dedicated GigaSMART processing capacity for high-scale traffic and metadata workloads. It extends processing alongside existing GigaVUE HC or TA Series infrastructure without requiring the entire visibility fabric to be redesigned.
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