Case Study: Health Insurance Provider achieves full network visibility and 11 months of savings with Ixia

Analyzing Virtual Healthcare Data at Full Network Performance

Health Insurance Providing Company, a large Southwestern U.S. health insurer with more than 1,300 employees, needed better visibility into highly virtualized network traffic while filtering out personal data to stay compliant. Its earlier virtual tapping and filtering efforts caused a 30% performance hit, and monitoring unfiltered traffic created HIPAA compliance concerns. The company also needed to quickly evaluate several monitoring tools, but its original plan would have taken 12 months.

Ixia provided Phantom vTap and xFilter Network Packet Broker, along with support for an ExtraHop monitoring solution. Using Ixia, the company was able to capture and filter virtual traffic without affecting performance, maintain HIPAA compliance, and evaluate multiple tools in parallel. The result was a proof of concept completed in 1 month instead of 12, saving 11 months and $300,000.