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Scale, Flexibility, Performance Ixia Delivers on the SDN Promise

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Software defined networking (SDN) has been touted for years as the best way to deploy scalable resources at the speed of business. That promise is nearing reality.

According to an April 2018 study sponsored by Verizon1, approximately 15 percent of organizations surveyed have deployed SDN. That number is expected to rise to 57 percent by 2020.

The SDN Promise

The reason for SDN adoption is simple—it decouples network communications from the data plane, which allows greater flexibility to create and modify new applications on the network. It also enables the automation and orchestration of those applications.

The Right Solution

Ixia is a long-time leader in network visibility solutions, supporting the latest SDN architectures. The Ixia solution is both flexible and simple to manage.

Ixia’s SDN-enabled solution aligns with the three-layer model and provides the flexibility to tailor each element to meet your business objectives.

Hardware Infrastructure

Ixia delivers ultimate flexibility in the data plane by supporting any of the following deployment options:

Server-based solution – Run the application layer as pure software on any industry standard server for ultimate cost savings

Whitebox switches – Load the Ixia software onto the physical switch of your choice for ultimate flexibility between performance and cost savings over custom hardware

Ixia hardware appliances – Leverage Ixia-engineered appliances when you need high performance FPGA hardware to maximize the user experience

Applications

The applications from Ixia run on any of the three infrastructure options. The software itself has been broken down into discrete application packages, or stacks.

The Ixia stacks provide all the basic and advanced monitoring functions you need. Here are some examples:

• L2-L4 packet filtering

• L7 packet filtering

•High-performance SSL decryption

• Packet deduplication

• Application intelligence metadata and geolocation information

• Monitoring for financial trading

• Threat intelligence feeds

Control

The control layer is critical to the SDN model. A controller must provide device management and operational programming for all solution components.

The Ixia Fabric Controller (IFC) provides this function, allowing you to control any of the infrastructure options along with any of the applications stacks. With IFC, you have a “single pane of glass” from which to control your network.

Here are only a few examples of what you can accomplish with an Ixia SDNenabled solution:

Remove on-premises and cloud blind spots – Taps and network packet brokers (NPB) provide better access to monitor data.

Mitigate cyber risk – Supported inline security tools, integrated SSL/TLS decryption, and threat intelligence feeds improve security response.

Increase monitoring efficiency – De-duplication and filtering means monitoring tools only receive relevant traffic.

Reduce tool costs – Load-balancing and aggregation of data reduce the number of security and monitoring tools required.

Enhance customer experience – Application intelligence delivers key NetFlowbased data, device and browser metadata, and geolocation information to improve application management and troubleshooting.

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