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To Tap or SPAN?

To Tap or SPAN?

Pages 7 Pages

Modern networks grow vastly complex with massive data volumes, high speeds like 800Gb/1Tb Ethernet, IoT/cloud layers, and escalating cyber threats—making reliable packet access essential yet challenging. Network taps outperform SPAN ports by providing lossless, dedicated access without production impact, oversubscription risks, or packet drops. Gigamon's Deep Observability Pipeline software maximizes taps by aggregating traffic from multiple sources, performing intelligent filtering/packet inspection, and delivering optimized, enriched streams to tools—ensuring comprehensive, scalable visibility across infrastructures for effective monitoring, security, and performance.

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