Executive Overview
Imagine a world where you can achieve full monitoring coverage regardless of the number of available SPAN ports and/or TAPs. It can be done due to two important enablers: - Most tools only need to see a small fraction of the network traffic to do their jobs, although often this traffic comes from separate network segments. Sending more data than is required actually degrades efficiency, because tools cannot keep up.
- Monitoring Optimization with a Network Monitoring Switch enables traffic to be filtered and dynamically directed to the correct tools. With this technique, you can increase monitoring coverage and save money
Monitoring Optimization enables traffic to be received at bandwidths up to 10G and filtered on Layer 2/3/4 criteria. With this technique, security and network operations professionals can use as many tools as needed to monitor the same network access points. Then, users can independently and simultaneously filter traffic to each tool, providing each of those tools with the precise information they need to optimize visibility and monitoring coverage.
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