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VSS Monitoring: Have Your 10G Network and Keep Your 1G Monitoring Tools

Have you noticed that your network complexity is escalating? Data traffic is exploding, new and sophisticated threats are searching for weaknesses, and networks are moving to 10G - and the move to 40G and on to 100G is coming fast. As the volume of traffic increases on your 10G network links, it outstrips both the bandwidth of 1G tool interfaces and the processing speed of the tools - resulting in tool oversubscription. When tools are oversubscribed, packets are dropped and analysis is hampered, compromising performance diagnostics and security. With VSS systems, your analytics, security, and WAN acceleration tools can get the traffic of interest from 10G connections and not be saturated with unwanted traffic. VSS systems filter traffic to a manageable flow rate to ensure that 1G monitoring device interfaces are not overwhelmed by the increased line rate.