Case Study: Global Financial Services Company achieves scalable, flexible packet visibility with NETSCOUT nGenius Packet Flow Switches

Gaining Scalability and Flexibility for Monitoring and Security Tools

A global financial services firm needed to scale and tighten visibility across its monitoring and security infrastructure as it introduced an inline Behavioral Analytics appliance into an environment that previously supported only passive IDS and NPM tools. The team’s goals were to integrate the new inline system without disrupting production traffic, simplify delivery of relevant traffic to multiple tools, eliminate non‑essential packets to reduce false positives, and ensure continuous high performance and health-checked tool operation.

The company deployed NETSCOUT nGenius Packet Flow Switches with its existing Optimizer 2400 to access, optimize, duplicate and deliver traffic — enabling a “capture once, use multiple times” approach. The PFS mesh provided fault‑tolerant, scalable visibility, policy‑based health checks and load balancing, preserving prior investments, reducing total cost of ownership, and making it easy to add or reconfigure inline and passive security systems as needs evolve.