Gigamon Systems at GLOBALCOMM this week is demonstrating how its GigaVUE-MP data-access switch can help service providers comply with CALEA or wire tapping laws outside of the United States.
Release 3.0 of GigaVUE-MP, which addresses 10gig connections, will be available this month.
GigaVUE-MP uses packet-aware cross-connects to create an out-of-band “monitoring" network, where all of the information can be aggregated and filtered apart from the operating network. GigaVUE also uses Packet-Level Filtering, which can recreate a stream of conversations that occurred from multiple locations.
“We provide the data connectivity to support the tools that do the actual analysis,” said Tom Gallatin, vice president of sales and marketing. “Our value-add is that we can provide an any-to-any connectivity so that any tool can acquire data from any point on the network both aggregated, shared and filtered. So that means you can set of different tools all acquiring data from the same sources, the same raw packet streams, but we can have them aggregated from many points so that they can see across many segments simultaneously.”
The CALEA application is just one of many that can be supported by the GigaVUE-MP, said Gallatin. It can also be used, for example, to help ensure VoIP traffic receives the correct quality of service, he said.
Fifteen-month-old Gigamon, which has been shipping the GigaVUE-MP (which starts at about $18,000 list) for a year, now has about 50 customers, of which about seven (including Vodafone and Telstra) are service providers.
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