Network visibility is becoming more and more important as organizations face the challenges of deploying increasingly complex network services (such as security, performance management, and monitoring) on an ever-evolving and expanding network and data center architecture.
In an ideal world, you would cover every link to prevent blind spots in your network visibility layer. However, due to issues like budget constraints or port limitations, this may not be possible. So you should prioritize visibility on the high capacity links and other critical points on your network. A central visibility controller management system can serve as a force multiplier on the links that you have covered.
What is network visibility adaptation layer?
It is the set of network elements and management system that allows network administrators to achieve pervasive visibility into every part of their network.
Most networking hardware and network visibility tools have limitations. Even modern network switches are equipped with only one or two SPAN ports, and you may need to connect more than two devices to them or have different departments tap into the traffic. Upgrade your physical network, and you may find your current monitoring tools lack the processing power or connectivity for higher throughputs and bandwidths.
A pervasive network visibility layer lets you forward to each tool the traffic that it needs. Aggregating low utilization links from across your network to central processing centers. Furthermore, some network visibility layer deployments take advantage of a central visibility controller management system like Niagara’s NVC. In such systems, independent visibility appliances are managed as a single virtual switch fabric across all of your visibility layers. This offers even more flexibility and efficiency in your deployment of network services such as monitoring and performance management.
Niagara Networks provides high performance network visibility solutions to allow seamless administration of security solutions, performance management and network monitoring. Niagara Networks products provide advantages in terms of network operation expenses, downtime, and total cost of ownership.
A former division of Interface Masters, Niagara Networks provides all the building blocks for an advanced Visibility Adaptation Layer at all data rates up to 100Gb, including taps, bypass elements, packet brokers and a unified management layer. Thanks to its integrated in-house capabilities and tailor-made development cycle, Niagara Networks are agile in responding to market trends and in meeting the customized needs of service providers, enterprise, data centers, and government agencies.
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