![]() ![]() ATIP provides traffic analysis describing the who, what, and where of your traffic in a dashboard.Īnd maybe that, by itself, isn’t all that exciting. ![]() Vision ONE also includes the Application and Intelligence Threat Processor (ATIP), which performs deep packet inspection and SSL decryption for flows filtered through it. Not an especially hi-res image, but you get the idea. And the tool ports are where network analysis tools are connected. The filters are where you describe what traffic should be copied to the tool port. The network ports are where traffic is flowing in from your network. Configuring the Vision ONE is done via a GUI pleasantly reminiscent of the Anue days, using drag and drop operations to connect network ports to filters to tool ports. Ixia’s Vision ONE also supports all of the copying, filtering, and slicing we’ve discussed. For example, Ixia’s NTO 5236, NTO 5288, and NTO 7300 all support complex filtering and slicing when equipped with the appropriate module. In addition, most NPBs can perform traffic slicing (aka packet trimming) where individual packets are sliced to exclude payload after the headers. The filtering is in the form of defining what specific flows should be sent to the tool. The ability to filter traffic means that you can limit the amount of data you are sending to a tool, preventing it from being overwhelmed. Your tools would be packet capture appliances, IDS boxes, traffic analysis tools, and so on. This means that you can send traffic from a span port or network tap, copy it inside of the NPB, and forward it to one or more tools. They (optionally) filter traffic going from one port to another. They copy traffic from one port to another.Ģ. Network packet brokers (NPBs) perform key specialized tasks.ġ. And so it was that my ears perked up at a Tech Field Day presentation by Ixia - a chance to relive my Anue days and see if the ball had moved forward. The point is that Ixia bought Anue, and Anue has been a decent product for a long time, based on my experience. Time has marched on, and features and functionality have advanced enough for those historical issues to be moot. Price and a straightforward GUI, if I recall correctly. I don’t remember all of why Anue won at the time. My personal history with Anue goes back to years prior to 2012, where the (at the time) little startup won a bakeoff against Gigamon. But Ixia acquired Anue Systems back in 2012, placing them in the visibility fabric and network packet broker space. ![]() They do that sort of thing, among other things. Ixia? Don’t they make load generators and test equipment, that sort of thing? Yes. Searching for “network packet broker” - the hardware device used to manage the copied traffic and forward various streams to various tools - turns up Gigamon once again, but also some different names, including Ixia. When searching for “visibility fabric,” Gigamon dominates the search results, and they have been the major player in the space for years now. When you think of visibility fabrics - you know, those boxes that take in copies of your traffic and send them off to your tools for analysis - who do you think of? Probably Gigamon. ![]()
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