South American Energy Enterprise
CHALLENGE
Move to VM for scalable cost savings, but without virtual and inter-VM traffic blind spots
SOLUTION
Phantom vTap, xStream 40 NPB
RESULTS
Achieved 100% visibility into virtualized traffic passing between VMs on hypervisor stack
Deferred need for new purchases through ability to transport virtual traffic from VMware ESX hosts
Simplified monitoring by converging physical and virtual networks
ETSI NFV Proof of Concept
CHALLENGE
Demonstrate the benefits of hardware acceleration in NFV environments, as defined by ETSI
SOLUTION
IxLoad
RESULTS
Validated 2000 to 4000 IPsec tunnel setup rate with different hardware acceleration used in NVFs
Demonstrated benefits of hardware acceleration in NFV environments for compute-intensive functions
Health Insurance Firm
CHALLENGE
Health insurer needed to improve visibility in a virtual environment while protecting patient information
SOLUTION
Phantom vTap, xFilter
RESULTS
Improved visibility and dramatically lowered virtualization resource usage from 30% to 3%
Shaved 11 months off POC schedule, by enabling quick selection of tool through head-to-head comparison
Increased network monitoring efficiency, saving $300K in OPEX
European Telecom
CHALLENGES
Accelerate new NFV service rollout by 25%. Monitor subscriber quality of experience for physical and virtual networks.
SOLUTION
IxNetwork, IxLoad, BreakingPoint, GTP Session Controller
RESULTS
Physical and virtual test tools in the lab and production enabled 25% faster issue resolution and deployment
Improved customer experience monitoring tool efficiency by 20% with better mobile traffic management