Case Study: U.S. Government R&D Agency achieves 100G-ready agility and enhanced R&D security with NETSCOUT PFS

U.S. Agency Improves Network Agility and Further Secures R&D Environment with NETSCOUT PFS Technology

A U.S. government R&D agency that must protect sensitive intellectual property and maintain near-zero network latency faced a technology gap as it upgraded to 100G (and 200G uplinks) while expanding packet conditioning and cybersecurity tool requirements. Their existing packet flow switch footprint could not support higher-speed interfaces or new needs like conditional packet slicing and de-duplication, and replacing downstream monitoring tools would have been costly.

The agency deployed a NETSCOUT nGenius 6000 series packet flow switch with PFS 6000 line cards (40 x 1Gb/10Gb and 6 x 100Gb QSFP28 ports) to aggregate taps, perform 64 kbps conditional packet slicing and de-duplication, and forward conditioned traffic to existing security and monitoring tools. The result was improved network agility and R&D security, reduced data-source footprint, compliance with government cost-containment goals, and extended value from prior monitoring investments while avoiding large-scale tool replacements.