Amid Tight IT Budgets, Gigamon Delivers Millions in Savings for CIOs

Gigamon Data Access Network (DAN) Equipment Aggregates and Filters Traffic;
Result is Dramatically Fewer Probes, Full Monitoring - and Never a Packet Loss

MILPITAS, Calif., March 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Gigamon, the global leading provider
of intelligent data access networking products, today announced its innovative
Data Access Network (DAN) can help reduce capital outlay for critical
monitoring projects. As a case in point, two recent customers were able to
save $2.71 million and $1.43 million, respectively. The cases are real-world
examples of how CIOs and CSOs can stretch already-tight IT budgets using the
Gigamon approach to do more with less by aggregating data sources and
consolidating monitoring tools.

Gigamon's DAN system facilitates and streamlines the intelligent, centralized
deployment of monitoring tools, enhancing the ability of tools to work more
effectively and accurately. At the heart of the solution is a unique
hardware-based data access switch, the GigaVUE, which is packet-aware and can
divide traffic and distribute packets at line rate to any number of different
GigE or 10 GigE monitoring tools.

GigaVUE switches can aggregate and filter traffic to ensure that each tool
gets the exact information it needs, at its optimal data rate. The ROI is
achieved through the consolidation and centralization of monitoring tools,
thereby reducing the capital cost of a substantially larger distributed tool
deployment and correspondingly reduce management, maintenance and energy
costs.

Two recent cases underscore the savings:

-- One of the world's largest ISPs offering VoIP services needed to
monitor 48 10G links real time, 24x7. The GigaVUE solution allowed
significant consolidation of the probes. The customer realized a $2.71
million in savings over the original strategy.
-- A large enterprise customer needed to record discrete application
transactions from very high speed connections at several of its data
centers. After receiving a proposal that included hundreds of
monitoring probes totaling $1.8 million to purchase and install, a
GigaVUE alternative, calling for less than two dozen probes and the
GigaVUE DAN solution, was submitted and adopted. Total cost was
$400,000 for a savings of $1.4M from the original proposal.

In both cases, multiple 10G and 1G links needed to be monitored simultaneously
and large numbers of tools would have been required. Also, there was a strong
need to connect and disconnect tools on the fly. By working closely with the
monitoring tool providers, Gigamon was able to complement the monitoring
solution with aggregated, filtered traffic from 10G and 1G links. Not only
did the GigaVUE proposals align with customers' capital budgets, but the
companies were also now free to deploy tools with 1 GbE interfaces to higher
speed 10GbE links.

"Gigamon technology can produce substantial savings--orders of magnitude
greater than with non-aggregated Matrix Switch, SPAN or TAP strategies," said
Patrick Leong, Gigamon's chief technical officer. "With most corporate IT
budgets flat at best or even declining in 2009, Gigamon's Data Access Network
approach can meet the conflicting tasks of increasing IT performance while
stretching investment dollars."

"The downturn in the economy has caused corporations to rethink deploying a
large numbers of security and network monitoring tools in a global distributed
fashion. Gigamon working together with tool suppliers has been very
successful meeting the customer's budgetary demands while providing a more
concentrated yet scalable solution," said Kevin Jablonski, Gigamon's Senior
Director of Business Development.

Gigamon equipment can support the entire range of monitoring tools and
processes including intrusion detection, SOX compliance, forensic recording,
VoIP analysis, lawful intercept, system troubleshooting and customer
experience. To learn more about Gigamon Data Access Network technology,
including a product brief and online presentation on the company's GigaVUE
data access switches, or case studies that describe the specific customer
experiences described above, log on to www.gigamon.com.

About Gigamon:
Founded in 2003 by six veterans of network monitoring and telecommunications
equipment companies, Gigamon invents and manufactures innovative solutions for
data access networks. Its flagship product, GigaVUE(R), can support multiple
out-of-band monitoring tools for compliance, security, troubleshooting and
analysis, sidestepping the hassles presented when too few SPAN ports are
available. It also can aggregate and intelligently filter packets from many
SPANs or TAPs to one or multiple tools to solve the problem of monitoring
flows across complex mesh topologies and virtual networks. GigaVUE(R) data
access switches significantly reduce customers' capital budgets and yield
immediate ROI benefits. For more information about Gigamon and its
award-winning solutions, visit www.gigamon.com.

SOURCE Gigamon

Lisa Kornblatt of SS|PR, +1-847-415-9330, lkornblatt@sspr.com, for Gigamon