Ixia Integrates ControlTower with Cisco Nexus Switches

Ixia announced integration of its ControlTower network visibility solution with Cisco’s Nexus 3000 switches.

Ixia’s ControlTower solution, a key component of Ixia’s IxVision Architecture, provides visibility within physical, virtual, and software-defined networks (SDN). The distributed architecture provides network administrators access to monitoring and diagnostic tools from any point in the network.

Cisco Nexus switches use a common programmatic interface.

At Cisco Live 2016, Ixia will demonstrate how Ixia ControlTower enables network administrators to dynamically repartition Cisco switch ports between production switching and visibility enablement.

"We have expanded the functionality of ControlTower to now provide a single view over both Ixia supplied network packet brokers and Cisco Nexus 3000 switches, acting as an aggregation layer in large network visibility deployments,” said Dennis Cox, Ixia’s Chief Product Officer. “Ixia is the only visibility vendor to provide an integrated solution using our own equipment combined with Cisco Nexus 3000 switches.”

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