California-based network tap manufacturer, VSS monitoring, announces a breakthrough in Network Tap performance with the introduction of pre-filter options in its line of distributed network taps.
The remotely managed filter taps allow users to separate select traffic from the monitoring stream to provide analysers with the packets of interest only, thereby increasing aggregation bandwidth and analyser efficiency.
Filter options include MAC source/destination; IP address/range; UDP & TCP port/range; VLAN/QoS; and IP type-of-service, including any protocol of known port ranges.
The user can configure multiple filters per tap port using either an HTTP or command line interface, where each filter can be set to either 'pass' or 'drop' the traffic selection. Filter combinations can be implemented on the same traffic, narrowing the selection and improving the capture rate of any analyser hardware.
The tap's filters affect copied traffic only and under no circumstances affect the pass-through of traffic on the network ports.
The VSS filter taps are available in a variety of port configurations, speeds as well as copper and fibre media.
VSS monitoring is represented by Test-IT for the sub-Sahara region. Contact +2711 6063457 or e-mail sales@test-it.co.za.
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VSS monitoring is the leading innovator of network taps and distributed data collection systems. Distributed taps are remotely managed tools that deploy throughout a distributed network to create centralised monitoring in a single location. Benefits include increased network visibility, reduced response time to security incidents, and up to 80% cost savings on overall network monitoring deployments. VSS monitoring's Distributed Data Collection Systems are changing the architecture of network monitoring for the world's leading telcos, service providers, banks and enterprise.
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