Riverbed Cascade Sharks to deploy Gigamon time stamping technology

Riverbed Technology, which provides application performance infrastructure, has expanded its partnership with Gigamon, known for its traffic visibility solutions with support for Gigamon’s time stamping technology on the Riverbed Cascade Shark, part of the Riverbed Performance Management product family.

This development enables accurate time stamping to be used in traffic analysis for faster troubleshooting of network and application problems in enterprise and financial industry IT environments.
 
“Precision time stamping provides the granularity which customers dealing with time-sensitive and high-frequency transactions require,” said Dimitri Vlachos, VP, Marketing and Products at Riverbed. 

Adds Tara Reeve, director of Strategic Alliances at Gigamon: “Network managers gain enhanced efficiency and a quick, precise solution to analyse traffic latency to maintain peak infrastructure performance across environments.”

Riverbed is a Gigamon Visibility Fabric Ecosystem Partner, while Gigamon is an elite member of the Riverbed Technology Alliance programme. 

About Riverbed Cascade Shark Appliances 
The Riverbed Cascade Shark appliance provides continuous, high-speed packet capture, indexing and storage to ensure that packet-level information is always available for end-to-end performance monitoring and for granular, real-time and back-in-time analysis. 

Riverbed Cascade Shark products are typically deployed wherever detailed real-time and historical analysis is needed. They can run as a standalone troubleshooting solution, or be used as an integral part of a complete Riverbed network performance management (NPM) visibility solution.

Gigamon Time Stamping TechnologyGigamon’s time stamping technology for the GigaVUE H Series, including the GigaPORT-X12-TS, offers hardware-based nanosecond accurate time stamping, enabling IT organisations to optimise networks for all types of traffic, including high frequency trading communications.

Gigamon’s Unified Visibility Fabric receives the same packet at multiple points along the network path and then applies a time stamp at each point of ingress. The time stamping allows Riverbed Cascade Shark to precisely examine a packet’s journey and associated latency as it moves through the network. This examination enhances Quality of Service (QoS) analysis and overcomes port latency issues improving network analysis, jitter evaluation and overall application and infrastructure performance management.

For more information, please visit the Riverbed and Gigamon websites.