No more duplicate frames with Gigamon Visibility Fabric
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Let's say you've got taps and mirror ports deployed throughout your network. They're on the uplinks from data center access switches, virtually attached to vSwitches for collecting intra-host VM traffic, at the WAN and Internet edge, on the User distribution tier, etc... All of these capture points feed various analysis tools via Gigamon's Visibility Fabric. It's likely that a given flow will be captured and fed into the monitoring infrastructure at more several points. Simplistic capture-port-to-tool-port forwarding rules will result in a given packet being delivered to each interested tool more than once, possibly several times.