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Key TAP Families
🔹 Passive Fiber TAPs
- Split optical signals to provide 100% packet visibility.
- Support single-mode and multi-mode fiber, from 1G to 400G.
- Available in BiDi (Bidirectional) versions for modern datacenter interconnects.
- Zero impact on network performance — fully passive, no power required.
🔹 Active Fiber & Copper TAPs
- Powered TAPs that maintain signal integrity on long links or high-speed connections.
- Support for regeneration (duplicating traffic to multiple tools).
- Ideal for dense, high-speed datacenter environments.
🔹 Aggregation & Regeneration TAPs
- Combine multiple links into a single monitoring port (aggregation).
- Replicate the same traffic stream to multiple monitoring and security tools (regeneration).
- Reduce complexity and maximize tool utilization.
🔹 Bypass TAPs (for Inline Security Tools)
- Protect network availability when firewalls, IDS/IPS, or NDR systems are deployed inline.
- Fail-to-Wire and Fail-to-Open modes to maintain continuity if tools fail or are taken offline.
- Built-in heartbeat technology to monitor inline devices and trigger bypass automatically.
🔹 Virtual TAPs
- Extend visibility into cloud, SDN, and virtualized environments (VMware, AWS, Azure, Kubernetes).
- Capture intra-VM and east-west traffic that is invisible to physical TAPs.
- Feed traffic into virtual packet brokers or hybrid visibility fabrics.
Benefits for the Client
- Uncompromised visibility: Access every packet, error, and anomaly in real time.
- Future-proof: Support for 1G to 400G speeds across copper, fiber, and BiDi links.
- Optimize tool ROI: Deliver clean, precise traffic streams to NDR, SIEM, and APM tools.
- Increased resilience: Inline bypass TAPs ensure security tools don’t become single points of failure.
- Cloud-ready: Extend observability to virtual and multi-cloud workloads.
Why Keysight TAPs are Different ?
- Comprehensive portfolio: covers copper, fiber, BiDi, aggregation, bypass, and virtual TAPs.
- High-speed readiness: up to 400G fiber TAPs for modern datacenters.
- BiDi support: native TAPs for bidirectional transceivers.
- Integration: tightly connected with Keysight Vision Series Packet Brokers for advanced filtering, deduplication, and traffic intelligence.
- Global trust: widely adopted in telecom, finance, and government sectors.
Typical Use Cases
- Provide lossless traffic feeds to monitoring and security platforms.
- Deploy Bypass TAPs to secure inline firewalls, IPS, and NDR appliances.
- Use Aggregation TAPs to consolidate multiple low-utilization links.
- Deploy Virtual TAPs for visibility in hybrid and cloud environments.
- Enable high-speed observability in 100G and 400G datacenter backbones.
Services & Support (What We Offer)
- Visibility Workshops – assess customer infrastructure and define TAP strategy.
- Deployment Services – install and integrate TAPs across datacenter and WAN.
- Cloud Visibility Design – extend TAP strategy to hybrid and virtual environments.
- Integration – connect Keysight TAPs with Vision Packet Brokers for complete Deep Observability.
- Managed Services – operate and maintain TAP infrastructure.
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