VSS 16x8 Distributed Tap: Industry's Highest-Capacity Network Traffic Capture Tool

My briefing with VSS Monitoring took place on a lawn overlooking the sea, which makes a nice change to a regular conference location. The pitch was about the 16x8 Distributed Tap, said to be the industry's highest-capacity network traffic capture tool. It delivers a complete, selectable and centralized view of even the largest networks.

 

Key to the performance of VSS products is the transparent pass-through of network traffic, with almost zero latency and virtually no effect on the signal should the VSS tap lose power. Proprietary technology reduces normal Gigabit failover time to as little as 100 ms, helping ensure that packet-sensitive applications running on copper media, such as VoIP and IPTV (News - Alert), continue to function uninterrupted and at specified quality-of-service levels.

 

“Network monitoring is clearly an area in need of answers,” said Glenn O'Donnell, senior analyst, at Forrester Research’s (News - Alert) IT Infrastructure and Operations division. “By decoupling traffic capture and analysis, you can achieve more complete monitoring and better correlation of monitored data, thereby reducing network vulnerability. For these reasons we are seeing an increasing demand for traffic capture solutions.”

 

With 16 10/100/1000 UTP ports, eight 1-Gigabit SFP ports and two 10/100/1000 management ports, this product has the highest port density of any commercially distributed network tap. In addition, users can selectively aggregate the output ports, in order to architect a distributed traffic capture solution optimized for any network.