Ixia Net Tool Optimizer (NTO) 5288 Processing Performance Versus the Gigamon GigaVUE-HC2 with One GigaSMART Module
Sponsor: Ixia (Keysight)
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Document Number: 216100
Publication Date: 1/18/2016
Page Count: 7
Abstract
Network visibility is essential to network security and performance management. In practical terms, visibility relies on reliable and intelligent packet management. All traffic generated by switched port analyzer (SPAN) and test access point (TAP) ports must have duplicate packets eliminated and be delivered without loss to network tool ports. Ixia implements per-port, distributed processing to meet these goals
Ixia commissioned Tolly to evaluate the advanced function, packet processing capabilities of its Net Tool Optimizer (NTO) 5288 and compare them with Gigamon GigaVUE-HC2 multi-purpose visibility fabric node outfitted with the GigaSMART module for packet manipulation. Tests used systems outfitted with 16 10GbE port pairs (32 ports total, unidirectional traffic) focusing on the capabilities of a single 16-port processing module.
Tests showed that the Ixia NTO consistently outperformed the Gigamon solution delivering zero-loss, line-rate, 160Gbps throughput with 16 10GbE ports on one IXIA AFM processing module while performing packet deduplication where Gigamon failed to delivery over 70% its stated 40Gbps processing capacity of a single GigaSMART module.