Case Study: Large Food Manufacturing Company achieves 70% faster MTTR with Ixia Vision ONE

Company Strengthens Security Tool Efficiency within 30 Minutes

Large Food Manufacturing Company, a $4B food product manufacturer with a complex network across North America, struggled with limited SPAN ports, duplicate monitoring data, and slow troubleshooting across its headquarters and remote sites. The team needed a way to connect multiple monitoring and security tools without constantly reconfiguring Cisco switches, and they turned to Ixia and its Vision ONE network packet broker (NPB) for help.

Ixia implemented a Vision ONE NPB in the primary data center to share traffic from just two SPAN ports across eight tools, while filtering and aggregating data so each tool received only the relevant traffic. The results were significant: SPAN port contention was eliminated, the device was installed and running in 30 minutes, troubleshooting was simplified, and MTTR dropped by 70%. Ixia also helped reduce web filtering link utilization from nearly 90% to 10%.