The Smarter Alternative to Gigamon for Network Observability and Security Monitoring
Is your network performance suffering from packet drops, bottlenecks, or hidden costs with your current packet broker solution? cPacket offers a superior alternative that delivers unmatched performance, granular precision, and transparent pricing—helping you optimize your network observability and security monitoring.
5 Reasons Why cPacket Outperforms Gigamon
1. Superior Line-Rate Processing: No Packet Drops
With cPacket’s line-rate processing, every packet is processed and accounted for, ensuring complete visibility without the packet drops that are common with Gigamon’s oversubscribed architecture. You can expect better data, deeper insights, and no blind spots in your network.
Read our Solution Overview: Packet Broker Comparison to learn more.
2. Real-Time Microburst Detection
Microbursts—brief, high-intensity spikes in traffic that are often undetected—can cause packet drops and degrade network performance. cPacket’s real-time microburst detection and analysis at millisecond resolution allows you to both detect the presence of a microburst and determine the source and size of the event in real time, unlike Gigamon, which lacks this critical feature.
Watch the Electronic Trading and Microburst Analytics for Networks video on our YouTube channel!
3. Nanosecond-Level Packet Timestamping
Gain unparalleled precision with cPacket’s nanosecond-level packet timestamping. Trace and analyze network events with pinpoint precision and accuracy, ensuring no details are missed. Gigamon’s limited timestamping leaves gaps in your network monitoring, but with cPacket, every network issue is captured and characterized.
4. Lower Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)
With cPacket’s smart packet brokers, you can offload packet processing, reducing the burden of irrelevant traffic on your security and performance tools by up to 30%. Additionally, all features are enabled out of the box—no additional licenses or hardware required, ensuring transparent pricing and straightforward licensing. And, all advanced features are enabled at line rate across all ports without performance degradation. To achieve the same level of “smart” performance, multiple Gigamon (oversubscribed) brokers would be needed, adding cost and requiring more power and rack space.
5. Simplicity of Licensing and Ease of Doing Business
Unlike Gigamon’s complex, multi-tiered licensing, cPacket offers transparent, flat-rate licensing with all features included. No hidden fees, no surprises—just a predictable, cost-effective solution that grows with your network.
See cPacket in Action!
Want to see how cPacket can optimize your network observability and security? Use the form on the right to schedule a meeting or demo today to discover how we deliver better performance, precision, and cost-efficiency compared to Gigamon.
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