What's New

Support for Secure Communication and Authentication for GigaVUE Fabric Components

Note:   Before upgrading the GigVUE fabric components to version 6.10, review the Secure Communication between GigaVUE Fabric Components documentation and FAQs - Secure Communication between GigaVUE Fabric Components to ensure seamless upgrade.

Introducing support for the Secure Communication feature in GigaVUE-FM, which enhances security by enabling mutual Transport Layer Security (mTLS)-based authentication across GigaVUE Fabric Components. With this feature, each fabric component is assigned a properly signed certificate from GigaVUE-FM PKI, ensuring authenticated, encrypted communication without relying on static credentials. Additionally, instead of using a username and password in the registration data for configuring Third-Party Orchestration, you must now add a token. Refer to Configure Tokens for Third Party Orchestration for more details.

Certain ports must be opened in the respective cloud platforms. For details, refer to Network Firewall Requirement for GigaVUE Cloud Suite.

Support for Traffic Acquisition using Inline V Series (Early Access)

Note:  Inline V Series is now available as an Early Access feature, giving you the opportunity to explore its capabilities before the general availability (GA).

Introducing support for a new inline tapping method enabling GigaVUE V Series Nodes to operate in inline mode, launched and scaled by the platform using Third Party Orchestration. You can deploy the GigaVUE V Series Nodes in single or two-tier setups, with first-tier nodes tapping and load-balancing traffic to second-tier nodes for processing, filtering, and forwarding to tools. Additionally, you can group multiple GigaVUE V Series Nodes into "Node Groups" and configure multiple Monitoring Sessions within a single UI canvas, enhancing efficiency, reliability, and ease of traffic monitoring.

Supported Platforms: AWS, Azure.

Refer to Inline V Series for more details.

Support for Traffic Acquisition using Azure vTAP (Early Access)

Note:  Traffic Acquisition using Azure Virtual Network TAP is now available as an Early Access feature, giving you the opportunity to explore its capabilities before the general availability (GA).

GigaVUE-FM now supports Azure vTAP, a native traffic mirroring solution provided by Microsoft Azure. With vTAP, you can tap traffic directly from virtual machine network interfaces and forward it to target network interfaces. The mirrored traffic is a deep copy of both inbound and outbound network traffic and can be sent to a destination IP endpoint or an internal load balancer within the same VNet or a peered VNet.

Refer to Traffic Acquisition using Azure Virtual Network TAP for more details.

Monitoring Session Workflow Improvements - Phase 2

Monitoring Session work flow is simplified for seamless navigation, smoother and more intuitive experience with reduced redundant steps.

Refer to Configure Monitoring Session for more details.

5G-Cloud Support for Ericsson SCP

The 5G-Cloud application in the V Series is enhanced to receive traffic from the Ericsson Service Communication Proxy (SCP) and transmit it to the tools. Traffic from the Ericsson 5G Core is encapsulated using UDP-GRE tunnels, with specific keys 3 and 17 designated to identify different traffic flows from the SCP. GigaVUE-FM acts as the centralized management platform that orchestrates the visibility fabric, which includes the V Series Nodes. The V Series Nodes inspect, aggregate, and process the incoming packets. After processing, traffic is encapsulated using L2GRE or VXLAN tunneling protocols and forwarded to either physical or virtual probes.

Refer to 5G-Cloud Ericson SCP Support for more details.

Enable Host Network Tapping in UCT-C

UCT-C introduces support for tapping Host Network Enabled pods.

Refer to Configure UCT-C Controller and TAP through GigaVUE-FM for more details.

Generate Sysdump

Introduces REST API endpoints on both GigaVUE V Series and GigaVUE‑FMto manage sysdumps efficiently. You can generate, retrieve, and delete sysdump files. GigaVUE-FM acts as a passthrough for accessing sysdump files stored on GigaVUE V Series nodes. To optimize performance, sysdump generation is limited to ten nodes simultaneously, with a maximum of six sysdumps per node.

Supported Platforms: AWS, Azure, Nutanix, OpenStack, Third-party Orchestration, VMware ESXi, VMware NSX-T.

Refer to Managing Monitoring Domain for more details.

Security Enhancements in GigaVUE-FM 6.10

For more information, refer to Configure Security Options.

GigaVUE-FM to share Circuit IDs across sites for improved Fabric Map scalability

This feature enhances the ability to manage Circuit ID allocation with more flexibility. Here are the key aspects of this feature.

For more information, refer to Notes on Circuit Ports and Circuit.

Cluster Creation UX improvement

You can easily and rapidly create a cluster with the following features:

For more information, refer to:

Cluster Support in VLAN Manipulation

You can now leverage VLAN manipulation capabilities within a cluster, offering greater control and flexibility in network traffic management.

Refer to VLAN Manipulation for more details.

Support Inner Header and MPLS Header qualifiers in GigaVUE-TA400

We have added the new capabilities to the GigaVUE-TA400 device to configure and utilize inner header packet attributes and MPLS header attributes (up to 7 levels) as part of Map Rules for Map templates, Regular Maps, and First-Level Maps.

Refer to Inner Header and MPLS Header Filtering for more details.

Decryption Port Mapping

In a NAT-PAT enabled Inline SSL application profile, you can now send decrypted traffic to user-defined L4 ports.

Refer to Decryption Port Mapping for more details.

Configure Resource Packet Buffer Scale to allocate additional ingress packet buffers.

You can now change the Resource Packet Buffer Scale for your GigaSMART Group traffic on GigaVUE-HC3 Gen 2 devices that are set up in the Application Filtering Intelligence session. The scale can be adjusted from 1 to 2 to help minimize drops when the ingress traffic has large data flows.

Refer to Handle Large Flows in Application Filtering Intelligence for more details

Support for GigaVUE Enriched Metadata for Mobile Networks on GigaVUE-HC1-Plus

GigaVUE Enriched Metadata for Mobile Networks is now supported on GigaVUE-HC1-Plus. User Plane and Control Plane traffic from GigaVUE-HC1-Plus is supported for exporting GigaVUE Enriched Metadata for Mobile Networks.

Refer to Application Metadata Intelligence for more details.

Configure DPI Packet Limit in Application Metadata Intelligence

This feature allows you to export metadata for the first few packets per flow in Gen 2 devices. You can specify the limit viz., 20 to 50, using the DPI Packet Limit Attribute. It can reduce the load on the DPI engine thereby improving its performance.

Refer to Create Application Metadata Intelligence for Physical Environment.

Enable SNMP Traps for Subscriber Intelligence Session

You now have access to real-time alerts for key resource and performance indicators within GTP engines. This feature ensures proactive monitoring and faster issue resolution with notifications for the following critical scenarios:

Refer to Configure SNMP Traps for Subscriber Intelligence Solution for more details.

To generate an SNMP trap, you must first enable the required event for SNMP notifications either on the device or on the GigaVUE-FM instance that manages the device. For instructions about how to enable SNMP notification on a device, refer to Enable or Disable Events for SNMP Notifications in GigaVUE Administration Guide.

NetFlow/IPFIX and Application Metadata Intelligence (AMI) now support exporting ingress and egress interface details (Interface name and index) on the Gen 3 GS Module for improved traffic visibility and troubleshooting.

Refer to Application Metadata Intelligence for more details.

The PRT-HC1-G12 low-speed line card is now supported on GigaVUE-HCT devices. It offers six 10Mb/100Mb/1000Mb copper ports and six 100Mb/1000Mb SFP FX/SR/LR fiber ports. This new addition expands the chassis capabilities, enabling support for network speeds ranging from 10Mb to 100Gb and providing enhanced flexibility to meet diverse networking requirements.

Refer to PRT-HC1-G12 Module for more information.

Enable 4 x 40/100Gb ports on TA25EA

On GigaVUE-TA25EA, there are 4 x 40/100Gb ports enabled in addition to the 24 x 1/10/25G ports.

Refer to GigaVUE-TA25EA for more information.