Case Study: Leading Financial Services Institution achieves end-to-end network security, eliminates 120 vendor defects and saves $800K with Keysight

Customer Secures Their Network From Cradle to Grave

The Leading Financial Services Institution, a U.S.-based international bank, faced too many vendor defects reaching production and extremely complex inline security deployments. They engaged Keysight to adopt a lifecycle approach, using Keysight BreakingPoint and PerfectStorm (with IxLoad) for pre-production validation and Keysight iBypass 40-10 switches plus Vision One packet brokers for resilient inline security.

Keysight implemented lab-based testing and an HA inline deployment—BreakingPoint/PerfectStorm and IxLoad established a golden baseline and validated device behavior, while iBypass and Vision One packet brokers enabled high availability, traffic filtering, and load balancing. The solution created a center of excellence for change validation, eliminated about 120 vendor defects per year before production, saved roughly $800K in the first year, improved uptime, and reduced change-board delays.