Every IT organization has a massive appetite for traffic data. From network operations and security operations to application management, multiple teams need to feed packets and traffic flows into an ever-increasing number of analysis tools. IT organizations address that appetite for data with network visibility fabrics, shadow networks whose core components are specialized appliances most-often referred to as network packet brokers (NPBs). NPBs specialize in aggregating, filtering, modifying and load balancing traffic flows across multiple analysis tools, ensuring that every tool gets exactly the data it needs.
Just as production networks are constantly evolving to become more software-defined, virtualized, and cloud-enabled, so too must network visibility fabrics and the NPBs within them evolve.
Leading IT analyst firm Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) has published new research that explores the evolution of NPBs. Based on a survey of 250 network management and security decision-makers with direct involvement in their organization’s network visibility fabrics, this research examines evolving requirements, use cases, and best practices for building and using network visibility fabrics with NPBs.
Join Shamus McGillicuddy, senior analyst at EMA for a webinar presentation that explores the results of this research, including:
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Shamus McGillicuddy
Senior Analyst, EMA