NETSCOUT Supports Federal Agency Migration to a 40GB Environment and Expanded Network Monitoring Fabric
Company Size
1,000+
Region
- America
Country
- United States
Product
- InfiniStreamNG™ 9800
- nGenius® 5000 series packet flow switch
- InfiniStreamNG Extended Storage Unit (ESU)
Tech Stack
- 40 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) switching core
- NETSCOUT TAPs
Implementation Scale
- Enterprise-wide Deployment
Impact Metrics
- Cost Savings
- Productivity Improvements
Technology Category
- Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Computing
- Networks & Connectivity - Ethernet
Applicable Industries
- Finance & Insurance
- National Security & Defense
Applicable Functions
- Business Operation
- Discrete Manufacturing
Services
- Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services
- System Integration
About The Customer
This Federal agency shares Information Technology (IT) solutions with some government agencies, while providing financial processing services to other Federal departments. The agency, a long-time NETSCOUT customer, was building and deploying a new data center. Given the nature of the IT support and financial services being provided to Federal agencies, the agency’s IT team realized the importance of network monitoring solutions. For those reasons and from the earliest stages of the project, they planned on incorporating nGeniusONE, InfiniStream appliances, and packet flow switches in their new data center.
The Challenge
The Federal agency, a long-time NETSCOUT customer, was building and deploying a new data center. As part of the planned data center launch, the agency made the decision to migrate to a 40 GbE switching core. They determined they needed to reduce the load on their switching infrastructure and move away from their reliance on SPANs for on-demand troubleshooting of problem ports on the switch. Taps would provide the desired visibility. However, this presented further challenges in ensuring their monitoring solution would be supportive of much higher-speed backbone, as well as continuous monitoring for post-event troubleshooting and trending & capacity planning.
The Solution
In addressing the agency’s business challenges, NETSCOUT enhanced the already-installed nGenius technology platform of nGeniusONE platform with Unified Communications (UC) support and nGenius InfiniStream appliances for network, application, and UC service assurance for multiple agency environments and its own internal network. For the new data center, they selected InfiniStreamNG 9800 appliances with extended storage unit (ESU) technology to ensure support in the 40Gb, high-traffic backbone. This next-generation InfiniStream platform provides the agency with a solution for their expanded packet retention requirements. In providing the required network monitoring fabric expansion support, the agency selected the nGenius 5000 series packet flow switch platform to complement its nGenius 3900 series packet flow switch deployment.
Operational Impact
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