Case Study: Global Financial Services Firm achieves reduced packet-capture TCO, improved ROI and an analytics-ready capture platform with Corvil

Providing investment banking, securities, wealth management and investment management services

A global financial services firm with 60,000 employees across 40 countries and more than $35B in revenue upgraded its core network to 100G and rearchitected datacenters and branch connectivity to improve performance and security. The firm faced operational complexity from siloed, multi‑vendor packet capture solutions that increased maintenance costs, struggled to measure the performance impact of new 40G firewalls, load balancers and in‑line devices, and could not easily adapt capture and analytics at individual branches.

The company consolidated packet capture onto a single, centrally managed Corvil architecture across 75+ locations, replacing FireEye, Endace and other legacy solutions. The deployment standardized devices, enabled intuitive indexed search and visual drilldowns, detected upstream packet drops, provided edge IT‑ops analytics and measured directional latency through devices, and delivered up to 3× streaming compression. As a result it cut the number of supported capture vendors by 75% and required appliances by 50%, improving capture TCO and ROI while reducing operational costs, boosting staff productivity and increasing flexibility for future analytics.