Case Study: Fortune 500 Retail Company improves network reliability and cuts monitoring load with Ixia Visibility Solutions

Fortune 500 Retail Company - Customer Case Study

A Fortune 500 Retail Company was facing packet loss and network blind spots, which made it difficult to manage network and application performance and perform packet capture and forensics. The company evaluated Ixia visibility solutions, including network taps, network packet brokers, traffic deduplication, and the Advanced Feature Module, to support its Riverbed SteelCentral ARX environment.

Ixia implemented a configuration that deduplicated traffic before it reached the ARX appliance, reducing processor load and enabling traffic from the data center and WAN to be aggregated and analyzed. As a result, the company improved network and application reliability and performance, achieved ROI within one year, and reduced traffic load on its monitoring and security tools by almost 60% with Ixia.