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Key TAP Families
🔹 Passive TAPs – Série M
- Design: Optical splitters for fiber links and copper passive access.
- Features:
- Fail-safe access: no impact if TAP loses power.
- 100% traffic visibility, including errors and malformed packets.
- Available in single-mode and multi-mode fiber versions, supporting speeds from 1G to 400G.
- Compact form factors for high-density datacenter deployments.
- Use Cases: Ideal for monitoring links where availability and transparency are critical.
🔹 Active TAPs – G-TAP A Series 2
- Design: Powered TAPs for copper links.
- Features:
- Active regeneration of traffic, ensuring signal integrity on long or complex links.
- Aggregation and replication functions built-in.
- Monitor both sides of full-duplex traffic with a single monitoring port.
- Hot-swappable power supplies and field-replaceable fans for high availability.
- Use Cases: Best for high-speed, long-distance, or complex datacenter environments where passive TAPs would not guarantee signal integrity.
🔹 Bypass TAPs (for Inline Security)
- Design: Specialized TAPs for inline deployments, sitting between firewalls, IPS, or NDR appliances and the network.
- Features:
- Fail-to-Wire or Fail-to-Open modes: maintain traffic flow if a security device fails or is taken offline.
- Integrated heartbeat packets to monitor appliance health and trigger bypass automatically.
- Support for inline tool chaining — multiple security appliances can be inserted in sequence.
- High-availability design: redundant power and failover mechanisms.
- Use Cases: Critical for security appliances deployed inline, ensuring they don’t become a single point of failure.
Benefits for the Client
- 100% visibility: Access every packet, error, or anomaly without drops.
- Tool optimization: Deliver clean, reliable traffic streams to monitoring and security tools.
- Reduced risk: Inline TAPs ensure security appliances don’t disrupt traffic during outages or maintenance.
- Compliance-ready: Guaranteed traffic integrity supports audit, forensics, and regulatory monitoring.
- Future-proof design: Support from 1G to 100G, copper and fiber, passive or active, inline or out-of-band.
Why Gigamon TAPs are Different ?
- Lossless traffic capture: unlike SPAN/mirror ports, TAPs guarantee full packet visibility with no drops.
- Comprehensive portfolio: passive, active, and bypass TAPs to fit any architecture.
- High-density, modular options: compact chassis and scalable deployment in large datacenters.
- Part of the Gigamon Visibility Fabric: seamlessly integrates with GigaVUE HC/TA Series and GigaSMART for advanced traffic intelligence.
Typical Use Cases
- Provide raw traffic access to NPMD tools for performance monitoring.
- Feed IDS/IPS and NDR appliances with reliable, lossless packet streams.
- Use Bypass TAPs to deploy firewalls and inline security without creating a bottleneck.
- Combine TAPs with NPBs (HC/TA Series) to create a scalable visibility fabric.
- Support regulatory compliance and forensics with full-fidelity traffic copies.
Services & Support (What We Offer)
- Network Visibility Assessment – Identify critical points for TAP deployment.
- Design & Installation – Choose between passive, active, and bypass TAPs.
- Integration with NPBs – Connect TAPs to GigaVUE HC/TA for traffic aggregation and enrichment.
- Inline Security Architecture – Deploy Bypass TAPs to secure inline appliances with HA failover.
Managed Services – Continuous monitoring of TAP deployment health and performance.
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