Gigamon's Deep Observability Pipeline enabled University of Wisconsin-Madison Network Engineer Greg Padden to test new firewalls against existing open-source security tools using real, live production traffic—delivering apples-to-apples performance comparisons without disrupting operations. The challenge was finding a new approach to maintain comprehensive visibility and security post-major network upgrade. Gigamon provided transformative benefits: sustained visibility/security continuity; reliable data access for tools/teams; improved network troubleshooting; and accelerated new tool testing—empowering seamless transitions, enhanced threat detection, and operational resilience for academic network excellence.

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