Gigamon vs Xcitium

About Gigamon

The Gigamon Deep Observability Pipeline combines physical, virtual, cloud-native, and software-based components to provide visibility, intelligence, and control across hybrid cloud infrastructure. Gigamon states that traditional monitoring and observability tools often lack the network context to detect threats, troubleshoot issues, and validate compliance. Gigamon serves government agencies and businesses around the world.^[3]

GigaVUE-FM fabric manager provides centralized orchestration and policy management across distributed environments. GigaVUE Cloud Suite is a core component of the Gigamon Deep Observability Pipeline. GigaVUE Cloud Suite enables visibility across private cloud or hybrid public cloud infrastructure. Gigamon Insights, GigaVUE-FM Copilot, and AI Traffic Intelligence are named as capabilities that help organizations identify AI-related traffic.^[3][5]

On public clouds, Gigamon extends network performance, security, and compliance to hosted workloads on VMs and Kubernetes-managed containers in AWS, Azure or Google Cloud Platform. For private clouds, Gigamon covers East-West traffic from virtualized applications running on Kubernetes, Nutanix, OpenStack, Red Hat OpenShift and VMware. In container environments, the Universal Cloud Tap runs as an agentless pod. GigaVUE V Series can often be deployed without additional agents. Gigamon describes cloud visibility delivered as code through a consumption-based licensing model across public or private clouds. Gigamon provides network tools with agentless visibility into layers 2-7 across cloud networks.^[3][5][7][9]

For security teams, GigaVUE Cloud Suite provides visibility into North-South and lateral East-West traffic and masks confidential data in motion across the cloud. GigaVUE Cloud Suite also provides visibility for building a zero trust security architecture. GigaVUE Cloud Suite aligns to NIST and SANS guidelines. Gigamon Precryption® technology gives plaintext visibility of encrypted communications, including lateral, inbound, and outbound, to the full security stack. Gigamon SSL/TLS Decryption centrally decrypts traffic so hidden malware can be discovered. Gigamon Application Metadata Intelligence (AMI) extracts application and protocol context from observed network traffic and delivers it to SIEM, NDR, and observability platforms. Application Filtering Intelligence sends only relevant application traffic to tools while filtering out traffic such as social media and videos. Application Visualization identifies more than 3,000 applications. Gigamon Insights applies agentic AI to network-derived telemetry to identify hidden threats and deliver recommendations and guided actions within existing security workflows.^{[3][8][9][10][11]}

For network operations, Gigamon provides centralized NetFlow generation that offloads the task from routers and switches. De-duplication and packet slicing remove redundant or irrelevant parts of packets so tools receive what they need for analysis. Flow Mapping collects line-rate traffic at 100Mb, up to 100Gb, from physical and virtual connections and delivers an optimized feed to lower-rate tools. Gigamon Inline Bypass and Traffic Load Balancing bypass inactive tools and redistribute traffic. The Gigamon Deep Observability Pipeline acts as an abstraction layer between infrastructure and tools to absorb changes without impacting network availability or performance. Gigamon acquires, brokers, and transforms tool traffic across all infrastructures.^[9][11][12]

Gigamon offers capabilities for fixed network or wireline providers, including VoIP subscriber intelligence. Gigamon works with reseller and integration partners that design, implement and optimize validated joint solutions.^{[3][4][10][13]}