Gigamon announced that JDSU is developing closed loop integration plugins that support Gigamon’s Software Defined Visibility.
The company said Software Defined Visibility is a framework that allows customers, security and network equipment vendors, as well as managed service providers, to control and program Gigamon’s Visibility Fabric via REST-based APIs.
Charles Thompson, senior director, product line management for JDSU said, “With this integration, we envision a multitude of possibilities where our customers can automate traffic visibility, so that they can focus their resources on other mission-critical activities.”
There are several use case examples of how JDSU plans to utilize Software Defined Visibility.
JDSU will take advantage of Gigamon’s Adaptive Packet Filtering capabilities to dynamically drop unwanted, ‘streaming’ traffic such as Netflix or YouTube, from needlessly filling monitoring appliance storage.
Additionally, JDSU sees specific situations where mobile operators will want to filter specific traffic and sessions based on GTP-C (UDP port 2123) traffic as well as GTP-U traffic based on IP addresses inside GTP tunnels. This gives operators greater insights into core network and user content traffic.
As more networks begin deployment of IPv6 along with legacy IPv4 infrastructure, JDSU expects customers will need to filter traffic on both standards. By having the ability to filter traffic on both, network administrators can rest assured knowing that they have comprehensive visibility and a future-proof path to simplify IPv6 migration without creating new blind spots.