National Instruments Selects Gigamon System's GigaVUE for Dynamic and Comprehensive Network Monitoring

Business Wire, Dec 5, 2006

GigaVUE Saves Capital and Operational Cost by Consolidating Monitoring Tools, Providing Unobtrusive Access to All Network Traffic

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Gigamon Systems, a leading provider of data access solutions for out-of-band network monitoring, today announced that National Instruments has deployed multiple GigaVUE-MPs across its multi-building campus in Austin, Texas. GigaVUE helps National Instruments save capital and operational cost by consolidating monitoring tools and providing engineers with around the clock, unobtrusive access to all network traffic. The interconnected GigaVUE-MPs form a distributed data access network that can aggregate, multicast, and filter data from multiple switches located in multiple buildings, into single tool port(s), providing network and security engineers with unlimited visibility into the network without impacting its performance.

National Instruments, a leader in virtual instrumentation, required a way to take data from SPAN ports and load balance the aggregated traffic across a centralized set of monitoring tools, such as sniffers, performance management applications, and network access control (NAC) products. Multiple GigaVUE switches are interconnected using 10-Gig fiber links to form a contiguous monitoring fabric, giving National Instruments the ability to send monitoring data streams to any data center on the Austin campus without having to backhaul through the production backbone, and add monitoring traffic to the busy production network.

"With GigaVUE, we can optimize and extend the power of our network monitoring tools," said Sohail Bhamani, NI senior network engineer. "This unique data access switch helps us set up our tools and get the exact data that we need, all without affecting network performance."

With its multi-rule mapping filter, GigaVUE can also redistribute the aggregated traffic to multiple tools based on pre-defined logical attributes (VLAN, IP subnet, application, etc.) to insure optimal traffic loads at each tool, providing National Instruments with flexible and dynamic network monitoring, which results in cost-saving and comprehensive coverage.

"We are very pleased we could help National Instruments take full advantage of their investment in network monitoring," said Denny K Miu, founder and CEO of Gigamon. "GigaVUE has enabled many similar customers to deliver comprehensive coverage with their current monitoring tools, which is essential in today's business-critical networks."

By filtering, aggregating, and multicasting critical data to support multiple network monitoring tools, GigaVUE-MP enables more flexible network security, monitoring, and troubleshooting while using far fewer and less intrusive tools. This enables network managers to meet the ever more onerous challenges of regulatory compliance, security, application optimization, and availability of today's enterprise network.

About Gigamon Systems

Gigamon Systems is the provider of GigaVUE-MP, a next generation Data Access Switch that addresses connectivity problems related to monitoring business-critical, high bandwidth networks. By filtering, aggregating, and multicasting critical data to support multiple network monitoring tools, GigaVUE-MP significantly reduces capital and operating expenditures, and improves network uptime by enabling more flexible network security, monitoring, and troubleshooting while using fewer and less intrusive tools. For more information about the company and their products, please visit www.gigamon.com.

About National Instruments

National Instruments (www.ni.com) is a technology pioneer and leader in virtual instrumentation - a revolutionary concept that has changed the way engineers and scientists in industry, government and academia approach measurement and automation. Leveraging PCs and commercial technologies, virtual instrumentation increases productivity and lowers costs for test, control and design applications through easy-to-integrate software, such as NI LabVIEW, and modular measurement and control hardware for PXI, PCI, USB and Ethernet. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, NI has more than 4,000 employees and direct operations in nearly 40 countries. For the past seven years, FORTUNE magazine has named NI one of the 100 best companies to work for in America.

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