Gigamon, a US-based IT solution provider, has launched new big data solutions aimed at providing traffic intelligence to enterprises and service providers.

It is the next phase of its Unified Visibility Fabric project, offering features including stateful correlation, subscriber awareness, and deep packet visibility. It also aims to deliver more granular filtering and forwarding to ensure the tools organisations rely on for managing, analyzing, and safeguarding the network and its users, receive only the most relevant traffic.

Shehzad Merchant, chief strategy officer at Gigamon, said the tools that monitor, manage and secure that network are increasingly turning to the Gigamon Visibility Fabric - as network architectures evolve and network speeds increase - to keep up with the growth in volumes of data as well as the rapidly evolving network architectures.

“The Visibility Fabric applications and advanced traffic filtering capabilities that we are bringing to market address a growing need for traffic intelligence built right into the Visibility Fabric,” Merchant said.

The enhancements and new applications for the Unified Visibility Fabric include:

The GTP correlation application which enables customers to filter and forward correlated subscriber traffic streams that are encapsulated using the GPRS Tunneling Protocol, or GTP, within 3G/4G/LTE environments. GTP correlation provides access to mobile Big Data caused by consumption and transmission of more voice, video, and data for work and leisure purposes across 3G and 4G/LTE networks. GTP correlation utilises stateful subscriber filtering and forwarding to understand and maintain subscriber-specific sessions, thus providing a complete picture of the subscribers’ activities to help ensure Quality of Experience (QoE) as well as reliable accounting, billing and subscriber management.

The FlowVUE application which provides active, subscriber-aware flow sampling to intelligently forward only the most relevant traffic to the tools. FlowVUE intelligently manages Big Data traffic, enabling carriers to connect monitoring tools that otherwise would not be able to handle the volume of traffic. This capability will help service providers address rising tool costs by enabling them to preserve or increase tool utility and offset ARPU reduction by monetising Big Data with tools like Customer Experience Management offerings.

Adaptive Packet Filtering which offers the ability to look for content anywhere in the packet and make intelligent filtering and forwarding decisions. Filtering criteria includes advanced encapsulation protocols and/or inner packet contents beyond Layer 4. These updates enable basic application identification and protocol-aware filtering for packet filtering and distribution.

Other GigaSMART technology updates include the addition of IPv6 de-duplication to the existing De-duplication Application, as well as support for visibility in Cisco FabricPath environments and IP fragmentation awareness.