Cisco Cisco Tetration Analytics G1 Data Sheet

 

 

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Data Sheet 

Cisco Tetration Analytics 

The Cisco Tetration Analytics

™ 

platform simplifies implementation of a secure 

zero-trust model in an application-centric world using pervasive visibility and 
behavior-based application insight. 

Product Overview 

Applications are driving data center infrastructure today. Applications are dynamic, with virtualization, 

containerized, and workload mobility technologies, and with constantly changing communication patterns between 

application components. Because of these technology advancements, 76 percent of data center traffic is east-west 

traffic

. In addition, today’s data centers demand a hyper-available network with no scheduled downtime. This 

dynamic environment contributes to three main challenges: 

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The need for pervasive visibility of traffic across the entire data center infrastructure, including servers and 

extending all the way to processes 

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The need to understand communications and dependencies for all applications in the data center 

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The need to implement a secure zero-trust using whitelist policy model in a heterogeneous network 

environment  

The new Cisco Tetration Analytics platform is designed to address these challenges through comprehensive traffic 

telemetry collection and advanced analytics using an algorithmic approach. The platform is designed to collect 

telemetry information at line rate at data center scale. The algorithmic approach includes unsupervised machine-

learning techniques and behavioral analysis, providing a turn-key solution. This solution is designed to: 

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Process millions of flow events per second, apply intelligent algorithms, and provide actionable insights in 

minutes 

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Capture and store hundreds of billions of telemetry records without aggregation to enable long-term 

forensics analysis 

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Provide complete visibility into application components, communications, and dependencies to enable 

implementation of a zero-trust model in the network 

Cisco Tetration

™

 telemetry information is collected using sensors. Two types of sensors are used: hardware 

sensors and software (host) sensors. With these two types of sensors, this platform is designed to support both 

existing (brownfield) and new (greenfield) data center infrastructure.