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Monitoring to the Edge with Smart Visibility in Data Center Operations
技术
- 网络与连接 - 以太网
- 网络与连接 - 网络管理和分析软件
适用行业
- 金融与保险
适用功能
- 商业运营
服务
- 系统集成
- 培训
挑战
信用社的业务运营正在增长,需要审查其现有的数据中心、网络和应用程序监控投资。他们得出的结论是,网络安全和网络运营团队无法获得所有位置所有流量所需的可视性。他们的要求包括可视性,包括许多网络协议和业务应用程序、面向客户的应用程序的性能分析、总体流量利用率趋势、应用程序利用率以及网络带宽和容量。他们需要一种解决方案,既能支持他们当前以及未来的运营,又能实施信用社的数字化转型战略。他们需要部署一个监控解决方案,该解决方案可以从新数据中心位置的核心网络到客户交易发生的边缘进行可视性。
关于客户
这家大型、历史悠久的信用合作社面临着零售银行面临的所有客户性能和安全挑战。尽管他们的所有分支机构都位于北美的一个地理区域,但其业务范围包括一个主要大都市区和周边郊区以及一些非常偏远的地区。他们为会员提供广泛的服务组合,包括投资、存款、贷款、信用卡服务和财富管理选项。在为客户提供尽可能灵活和方便的银行业务方式方面,信用合作社的目标与其他金融机构相同。这导致了智能设备应用程序、网络门户的引入,以及呼叫中心增强的客户体验。他们的业务正在通过有机增长和收购实现增长,并且该组织正在构建一个新的数据中心,以更好地支持整个地区的会员。
解决方案
IT 团队通过实施 nGenius 5010 数据包流交换机 (PFS) 来监控公司数据中心位置的许多 10G 网络链路,同时提供聚合、复制和管理整个网络流量的能力,从而解决了这些长期和短期挑战。然后,PFS 将特定的网络流量传送到下游监控系统,例如这里使用的 InfiniStreamNG (ISNG) 9700 系列,通常通过 40G 等更高速的链路。nGenius 5010 具有灵活性,可以使用可用的 10G 和 40G 端口,这些端口可以快速配置为监控新网络段或在网络增长时提供新工具,从而有助于实现面向未来的目标。通过选择 PFS 的软件模型,信用合作社也获得了显着的成本优势。通过安装 nGenius PFX 软件,他们今天需要的高级聚合、分发和数据包重复数据删除功能都已提供。此外,PFS 和 PFX 都满足了面向未来的目标,因为平台可以灵活地升级以支持日后增强的安全性或容量要求。
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