Case Study: Health Insurance Provider achieves 11‑month, $300,000 savings and HIPAA‑compliant virtual traffic visibility with Keysight (Ixia)

Analyzing Virtual Healthcare Data at Full Network Performance

Health Insurance Provider, a regional insurer covering more than one million people and now 95% virtualized, needed secure visibility into virtual machine traffic without exposing protected health information or degrading host/VM performance. After experiencing a 30% performance hit with other virtual tap solutions and planning a 12‑month serial proof‑of‑concept among multiple analytics vendors, the company engaged Keysight (Ixia) to evaluate Ixia Phantom vTap and the Ixia xFilter Network Packet Broker for selective virtual traffic capture.

Keysight implemented the Ixia Phantom vTap together with the xFilter NPB to mirror and filter only the necessary virtual traffic and replicate those filtered packets to multiple analysis tools in parallel. The solution preserved performance (avoiding the prior 30% loss), maintained HIPAA/PHI compliance, and shortened the evaluation from 12 months to 1 month—saving 11 months and about $300,000—enabling the Health Insurance Provider to quickly select the best monitoring tool.