IP Fabric expands network visibility, automation with platform update

For organizations using SD-WAN, the expanded support for Silverpeak and Viptela environments provides enhanced visibility into performance metrics and connectivity status across distributed networks. The platform update also introduces over 160 automated intent verification checks to help verify compliance and security posture.

IP Fabric aims to differentiate against observability tools

The market for network monitoring and observability is highly competitive with no shortage of vendors targeting organizations large and small.

Bykov argued that his firm’s platform should be placed in a different category than observability, CMDB (configuration management database), or monitoring tools. He explained that the IP Fabric platform is able to automatically create a vendor-agnostic, end-to-end view of all network and security devices, states and dependencies, as well as the cloud. Additionally configuration and compliance analytics are able to reveal unknown risks and opportunities, which then can be shared and integrated into other workflows.

With the latest update, Bykov said that users have increased visibility into data sources like cloud inventory tables for AWS and GCP, expanded support for SD-WAN vendors, and access to newly added security data sources like Checkpoint, Stormshield and Palo Alto. 

Increased accuracy for network inventory

A core challenge that any networking monitoring platform faces is actually being able to properly identify all the assets in the network inventory. IP Fabric claims that its platform provides more accurate network inventory than other technologies.

Bykov said that on average, IP Fabric is able to reveal 2-10% more devices than what companies have in their CMDB systems. Similarly, he noted that his company tends to also find significant security vulnerabilities such as open ports, firewall misconfigurations, or improperly implemented network segmentation.