Case Study: Leading US Wireless Service Provider achieves major analytics cost savings and doubled tool processing throughput with Gigamon

How Subscriber-aware Traffic Processing Resulted in Big Savings and a Clear Business Advantage for Tier 1 Carrier

A US tier‑1 wireless service provider with more than 60 million subscribers faced a sudden surge in traffic after a successful promotion. Their existing analytic tools and load balancers couldn’t keep up—10Gb tools were expensive and often couldn’t process line‑rate traffic, leading to tool over‑subscription, inaccurate results, and rapidly rising CAPEX and operational costs.

Gigamon deployed its Visibility Fabric and GigaSMART features—moving GTP correlation into the fabric, adding FlowVUE traffic scaling, Whitelisting, and session‑aware load balancing—so complex processing ran at the network edge. The result: tool processing throughput doubled, traffic to probes was cut by ~50%, external load balancers were eliminated, licensing needs and probe costs dropped, and the operator gained clearer, subscriber‑aware visibility to prioritize high‑value customers.