Midwestern Financial Services Company Banks on Visibility
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Migrating the network from 1G and 10G to 40G links meant the North American financial services company needed 100% visibility coverage on every network segment, a goal that brought the shortfalls of its prior tap solution to the forefront. For starters, the previous taps took up too much space in the data center and consumed considerable CPU resources. Along with the exorbitant costs, the team found the previous vendor’s user interface (UI) tedious to operate which did not bode well for configuring hundreds, even thousands of taps and network packet brokers. So, rather than double down on its old solution – and watch resource consumption skyrocket – CDW brought in Keysight to demonstrate the benefits of high-powered Flex Taps against competing approaches.
Forescout and Keysight emerge as clear winners to up-level visibility The banking services provider elected to deploy a joint solution from Keysight and Forescout to achieve scalable world-class visibility based on several factors:
- Keysight Flex Taps delivered the highest-density in a rack-mounted deployment model providing roughly double the density compared to the old vendor’s solution
- Operating the Keysight platform and UI proved simple and elegant by comparison
- The Keysight, CDW, and Forescout teams worked closely together to demonstrate and deliver a proven joint solution the customer literally could bank on