Why Aviz Service Node v2.4 Is the Missing Intelligence Layer for Modern Networks

In today's era, enterprise and telecom networks span much wider than a data center. These networks' traffic traverse through the cloud, edge, hybrid infrastructure, and wireless networks, giving network administrators a challenging time in gaining end-to-end visibility. Lack of smart traffic analysis has put security and network teams' fragmented views and increased incident response times.

Typical issues faced are:

The inability of getting visibility across a distributed environment.
Replication of traffic which impacts data processing costs.
Cost-intensive hardware appliances tied to proprietary technology.
Lack of data to feed the AI-based observability platforms.

Aviz Service Node v2.4 processes raw packet traffic to create machine-readable, application-aware metadata which is consumable by present-day observability platforms. ASN, through deep packet inspection (DPI) and application classification, enhances packet-aware traffic data with context so that AI/ ML can efficiently study network traffic.
ASN identifies more than 2000+ applications, drops duplicates within Layers 2 to 4 of the traffic, and streams application context in JSON over Kafka, providing real-time actionable intelligence to applications and platforms built for observational analytics. Within Telecom, GTP Correlation of Control and User plane packets within 4G/ 5G enables subscriber-level visibility.
Given ASN can run on any x86 hardware platform and also supports VMs/ containers, it can be deployed across any on-premises, cloud, edge, or hybrid setup. It reduces reliance on expensive proprietary packet processing hardware and cost-intensive appliances.
As AI continues to lead the network industry, intelligent packet processing will no longer be a luxury, and ASN v2.4 will play an important role in enabling organizations to optimize costs, security visibility and build a futuristic and scalable observability system.

Read the complete blog below to discover how Aviz Service Node v2.4 transforms packet data into AI-ready intelligence for modern network observability. https://aviznetworks.com/resources/blogs/how-does-aviz-service-node-v2-4-make-network-observability-ai-ready

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