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	Data Sheet: High Density TAP

One of the best solutions that we have purchased is a Finisar Fiber Channel TAP, Probe, and Analyzer. These pieces of hardware combined with the software sitting behind the Finisar equipment can help to analyze a problem very quickly.

Andy Loftus, National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the Univ. of Illinois

High Density TAP

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While used by service organizations and IT professionals for years, fiber optic TAPs were not generally deployed with networks as their density was lower than the switching infrastructure they supported. Finisar's High Density (HD) TAP changes this by providing 16 TAPs in a 1U rack mountable chassis. HD TAP densities allow networking professionals to include TAPs within their networks at deployment time, creating a permanent, fail-safe, and passive traffic access point to network traffic. With the TAPs installed, the network has connection points for protocol analyzers, network monitoring devices, and intrusion detection/prevention systems, without the need to stop the network.

Benefits

Provides passive access to fiberoptic network traffic that will not cause a point of failure
Enables dynamic connection of analysis, monitoring, and security devices into networks
Minimizes space with 16 single (1x1)
TAPs in a 1U rack mount configuration
Does not add latency to network traffic
Shows all traffic, bit-for-bit, unlike Mirror or SPAN ports

Data Sheet: High Density TAP