Gigamon Envisions NetFlow

SILICON VALLEY, Calif. -- Gigamon (NYSE: GIMO), a leader in traffic visibility solutions with the innovative Unified Visibility Fabric, today announced a forthcoming application to generate and export NetFlow records from within the Visibility Fabric. As a part of the Applications Layer of the Unified Visibility Fabric architecture, the NetFlow Generation application will create NetFlow records, then send the information to one or multiple NetFlow collectors or analyzers. Gigamon has traditionally focused on creating features and functionalities to help optimize the tools infrastructure, however, NetFlow Generation will allow our Visibility Fabric to optimize the network. The application can maximize the efficiency of the network itself by assuming the processing necessary to generate NetFlow information that had previously been dedicated within the switch, thereby reducing the burden to the network.

"The NetFlow Generation application is a new and very interesting offering for our customers," said Shehzad Merchant, Chief Strategy Officer at Gigamon. "This application is unique because it centralizes NetFlow Generation, offloads this compute intensive job from the network switches and routers, and does it effectively at high throughput rates for both sampled and unsampled traffic. By making NetFlow Generation an application integral to the Visibility Fabric, all the benefits of Flow Mapping, filtering, replication, can be applied in conjunction with the NetFlow Generation capability, providing a very fine granularity of control. This is really an industry first for the monitoring space."

NetFlow is a simple way to derive basic information about things like traffic types, usage patterns, top talkers and top applications across systems. The records from the NetFlow Generation application can be exported to multiple collectors concurrently, providing a single flow source for business-critical management applications such as security, billing, capacity planning, and more.

Gigamon Systems LLC