Virtualisation

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