Distributed Taps are the next generation of traffic capture. They are comprised of exceptionally flexible devices that can passively tap multiple networks and forward the traffic as selected by the user to multiple independent monitor ports.

Distributed Taps form a dedicated hardware access platform to centralize monitoring infrastructure by offering selective aggregation, filtering, remote management, and complete configuration flexibility.

For Distributed Taps
- 10G Distributed Taps
- 10G/1G Distributed Taps
- 1G Distributed Taps
- 10/100-1000 Distributed Taps

Product Features:

- Filtering
Filtering allows users to determine what type of traffic is copied from the network ports to the monitor ports based on Layers 2-4 criteria

- Load Balancing
Load Balancing is a stateful method of distributing traffic across multiple logically grouped monitor ports, effectively summing the bandwidth of the load balanced ports. Output from the load balanced group is designed to maintain packet order within any given conversation (any single session stream between point A and point B), as well as to guarantee a consistent output port for any single conversation This ensures that a monitor tool will see every packet of a given conversation.

- Selective Aggregation
With selective aggregation, available in all VSS' Distributed Taps, users can decide how each network input port is directed to each monitor output port, which allows each monitor port an independent, completely selectable view of network inputs.

- LinkSafe - vAssure
LinkSafe is an intelligent controller within the tap that enables link failures to be observed by network elements on both sides of a tapped network, enabling routers and/or switches to execute redundant links as designed.

- vStack+
vStack+ brings fault-tolerance to network monitoring by allowing traffic capture devices to be deployed in a fully distributed mesh configuration. This eliminates a single point of failure in traffic capture and ensures optimum routing of the traffic captured to a central location for analysis.

- Time Stamping
Time Stamping is part of VSS Monitoring's Packet Optimization feature set. It allows users to append a time stamp to each packet as it enters a network ingress port.

Network Taps, also known as a 1x1 taps, provide passive monitoring access to a single full-duplex network. They are designed to be placed between two network communication devices to capture the bidirectional traffic and mirror it to two output ports for monitoring by an analysis or recording tool.

This series of taps features four ports, where two ports are designated for traffic connectivity and tapping and two additional ports provide a copy of the pass-through traffic to a monitoring tool.

Aggregator Taps are designed to tap either a single full-duplex network or multiple full-duplex networks and combine the cumulative traffic onto a single stream for output to one or multiple monitoring tools. Aggregation of network traffic reduces the number of interfaces required to monitor any given network.

This series of taps offers a wide range of port densities for both the network and monitor ports. Most devices in this series also support the aggregation of multiple span (mirror) port outputs.

Regeneration Taps are designed to tap one or multiple networks and replicate the traffic across multiple monitor ports. Replication of network traffic increases the number of monitor tools that can access any given network.

This series of taps offers a wide range of monitor port densities. Most devices in this series also support the replication of multiple span (mirror) port outputs.