Secure Tunnels

Secure Tunnel securely transfers the cloud-captured packets on UCT-V and UCT-C to a GigaVUE V Series Node or Tool (only in the case of UCT-C). The data from UCT-V and UCT-C are encapsulated in PCAPng format, and the encrypted data is sent over a TLS connection to a GigaVUE V Series Node.

Secure Tunnel can also transfer the captured packets from a GigaVUE V Series Node to another GigaVUE V Series Node.

In the case of GigaVUE V Series Node to GigaVUE V Series node, the traffic from the GigaVUE V Series Node 1 is encapsulated using PCAPng format and transported to GigaVUE V Series Node 2, where the traffic is decapped. The secure tunnels between a V Series Node and a V Series Node have multiple use cases.

The GigaVUE V Series Node decapsulates and processes the packet as per the configuration. The decapsulated packet can be sent to the application, such as De-duplication, Application Intelligence, Load balancer, and tool. The Load Balancer on this node can send the packets to multiple V Series Nodes. In this case, the packets can be encapsulated again and sent over a secure tunnel.

For more information about PCAPng, refer to PCAPng Application.

Supported Platforms

Secure Tunnels is supported on:

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OpenStack

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Azure

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AWS

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VMware NSX-T (only for Third Party Orchestration)

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VMware ESXi (only for Third Party Orchestration)

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Nutanix (only for Third Party Orchestration)

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Google Cloud Platform (only for Third Party Orchestration)

For information about how to configure secure tunnels, refer to the section Configure Secure Tunnel (OpenStack).