GigaVUE HC Series

“High-performance visibility and traffic intelligence for security and monitoring at scale.”

What is the Gigamon HC Series?

The Gigamon HC Series are high-capacity Network Packet Brokers designed for organizations that require advanced visibility, traffic intelligence, and inline security controls across large-scale, mission-critical environments.

Building on the foundation of aggregation (as in the TA Series), the HC Series adds application-aware intelligence, advanced filtering, and inline bypass features, ensuring that performance monitoring and security tools receive precisely the data they need — optimized, enriched, and secure.

These appliances are the backbone of the Gigamon Visibility and Analytics Fabric, supporting 10G to 400G links, cloud and hybrid architectures, and advanced use cases such as metadata generation and inline security chaining.

Key Features

• High-Capacity Traffic Aggregation — Consolidate high-speed network traffic (10G to 400G).
• Advanced Filtering & Correlation — Match flows based on applications, users, or protocols.
• Application Metadata Intelligence (AMI) — Generate flow-level metadata (HTTP, DNS, SSL/TLS, etc.) to accelerate threat detection and performance monitoring, Centralized NetFlow / IPFIX generation
• Inline Security — Inline bypass and traffic steering for firewalls, IPS, and NDR platforms.
• De-duplication & Header Stripping — Optimize tool efficiency by removing unnecessary or redundant data.
• Load Balancing & Failover — Distribute traffic intelligently and ensure tool availability.
• Scalability — Modular systems that support thousands of ports and terabits of throughput.
• Hybrid & Multi-Cloud Ready — Extend visibility across datacenter, WAN, and cloud-native architectures.

Benefits for the Client

• Enterprise-wide visibility: full coverage of high-speed datacenter and hybrid cloud networks.
• Accelerated detection & monitoring: with application metadata, SOC and NPMD teams gain faster insights.
• Optimize tool ROI: filtering and metadata reduce tool load, extending lifespan of monitoring and security appliances.
• Strengthen security posture: inline bypass ensures traffic always reaches security controls without becoming a bottleneck.
• Future-proof visibility: supports 100G+ networks and next-generation hybrid architectures.

 Why the Gigamon HC Series is Different

• Intelligent visibility fabric — Goes beyond packet forwarding, delivering enriched insights (metadata, decrypted flows, application awareness).
• Inline security chaining — Integrates multiple security tools in series with failover resilience.
• Scalable design — Built for large enterprises, service providers, and high-throughput environments.
• Part of the Gigamon ecosystem — Works seamlessly with TA Series, virtual TAPs, and cloud visibility solutions.

Typical Use Cases

• Delivering enriched traffic to SOC platforms (SIEM, NDR, IDS/IPS).
• Feeding NPMD solutions with optimized and deduplicated data.
• Building inline security architectures with firewalls, DLP, and IPS.
• Generating application metadata for faster threat hunting and troubleshooting.
• Scaling visibility for multi-terabit networks and hybrid cloud.

Services & Support (What We Offer)

• Visibility Assessment – Identify visibility gaps in large-scale networks.
• Design & Integration – Architect and deploy HC Series in existing monitoring/security stacks.
• Metadata Utilization – Build dashboards and use cases leveraging AMI outputs.
• Inline Security Projects – Design resilient chains with bypass and failover.
• Operational Services – Co-sourcing, managed NPB operations, and knowledge transfer.