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title: "Success Story: Global Bank Improves Packet Capture TCO and Lays Foundation for Analytics"
description: "Corvil's capture architecture reduces deployment footprint by 50% and protects investment with modular analytics upgrades."
type: "case-studies"
date: "2018-09-20"
source: https://www.pico.net/resources/global-financial-services-firm/
markdown_url: https://www.pico.net/resources/global-financial-services-firm.md
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# Global Bank Improves Packet Capture TCO and Lays Foundation for Analytics
## Challenge

### Siloed Capture Products Complicated Network and Security Management

- Complexity of multi-vendor packet capture products increasing ongoing maintenance costs

- Limited ability of existing capture products to measure the performance impact of the dramatic increase in 40G firewalls, load balancers, and other in-line devices being deployed as part of the new security-focused datacenter architecture

- Limited ability to adapt to changing capture and analytics needs at individual branches

## Solution

### Consolidation to a Single Network Capture Architecture Supporting Modular Analytics Upgrades

- Standardized capture devices across new network architecture, simplifying deployment, regulatory certification, and ongoing maintenance

- Intuitive access to [packet captures](https://www.pico.net/products/corvil-analytics/network-capture/), capture analytics, visual drill-downs, filtering, indexed search and single-click access that minimized manual analysis time and effort

- Improved data quality assurance by detecting upstream packet drops and overloaded SPAN sessions

- Streaming packet compression that maximized disk storage capacity up to 3 times over competitive products

-
[IT Operations analytics](https://www.pico.net/products/corvil-analytics/) at the edge for selected branch locations to improve application and service assurance

- Ability to measure the precise directional latency through load balancers, firewalls, and other applications and devices, providing an understanding of the actual performance impact of each device on user experience

- Streamlined, modular analytics upgrade path for deployed capture appliances

## Results

### Improved Capture TCO, ROI and Deployment Flexibility

↓ Number of supported capture vendors by 75%

↓ Number of required capture appliances by 50%

↓ Operational and maintenance costs

↑ Staff productivity

↑ Deployment flexibility for future analytics