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    v1x1 10/100 Copper TAP Product Brief
    The v1x1 10/100 Network TAP allows uninterrupted pass-through of data over standard UTP copper cable. This TAP will accurately duplicate 10Mbps and 100Mbps Ethernet signals (including all data and timing errors) to the transmit-only monitoring ports. The ZERO Delay feature ensures no loss or interruption of network data when power to the TAP fails. Multiple LEDs provide power status/link/activity indication for easy installation and troubleshooting in the event of faulty network equipment or incorrect wiring.
    v1x1 10/100/1000 Copper TAP Product Brief
    VSS 10/100 v1x1 Network TAPs allow uninterrupted pass-through of data over standard UTP copper. The TAPs will accurately duplicate 10Mbps and 100Mbps Ethernet signals (including all data and timing errors) to the transmit-only monitoring ports.
    v1x1 Converter TAP Product Brief
    The v1x1 Converter TAP allows the uninterrupted pass through of full duplex data over selected copper or fiber network (see available configurations below). Decoding the network signals this device converts the data and electronically replicates an exact copy (including line errors) to two transmit-only monitoring ports. A user is therefore able to monitor a full duplex stream with a monitoring device of their choice thus leveraging the monitoring flexibility and improving ROI for the available card on the IDS and / or Analyzer.
    v1x1 Optical TAP Product Brief
    The v1x1 All-Optical TAP provides individual monitoring of Ethernet-based networks without power usage. The v1x1 All-Optical TAP is certified to interoperate with 100 Mbps networks, Gigabit networks, and 10 GigE networks. Network operators can rest assured that VSS Monitoring's Optical TAPs will provide the visibility they need as network speeds increase.
    v1x2 Aggregator Filter TAP Product Brief
    VSS 10/100/1000 and 1G v1x2 Filter TAPs enable refined traffic monitoring of full duplex networks on a single transmit-only monitor output port. L2 - L4 Hardware-based filtering allows traffic to be distinguished according to source and destination address as well as by specific protocols such as HTTP, VoIP, etc. Type A1 Filter TAPs provide the ability to define two unique sets of filtering options for each network port only, before aggregation and forwarding to the monitor ports. Type A2 Filter TAPs provide the ability to define a unique set of filtering options for each network and monitor port (before and after aggregation of the traffic).
    v1x2 Aggregator Non-Filter TAP Product Brief
    VSS 10/100/1000 and 1G v1x2 Aggregation TAPs enable refined traffic monitoring of full duplex networks on two transmit-only independent monitor output ports.
    v1x3 Aggregator TAP Product Brief
    VSS 10/100 v1x3 Aggregation TAPs enable refined traffic monitoring of full duplex networks on two transmit-only independent monitor output ports and a monitor output port pair.
    v1x3 Injection TAP Product Brief
    The v1x3 Injection TAPs allow the fail-safe pass through of duplex data over standard UTP Cat 5 cable. Employing extended buffering the aggregation feature of these TAPs enable users to monitor 100% of the duplex link on a single unidirectional monitoring port. These TAPs also guarantee the preservation of packet order during aggregation.
    v1x4 Replicator TAP Product Brief
    VSS 10/100/1000 and 1G v1x4 Span Port Replicators copy traffic from a Span port and replicate it to four monitor output ports for increased traffic access visibility.
    v1x4, v1x8, v1x12, v1x16, 1G Optical TAPs Product Brief
    This series of TAPs offers a wide range of monitor port densities, speeds, and media conversion. Available in 6, 10, 14, and 18 fiber port versions.
    v1x4, v1x8, v2x8, v2x16, 10G Replicator TAPs Product Brief
    VSS 10G Optical Port Replicators access one full duplex network or two Span ports, and replicate the traffic to 4, 8, or 16 outputs with data re-clocking and signal cleanup.
    v1x8, v2x8 Aggregator TAP Product Brief
    VSS 1G Optical Port Replicators access one full duplex network or two Span ports, and replicate the traffic to 4, 8, 12, or 16 outputs. OC3, OC12, and OC48 builds are also available on request.
    v2x1 Aggregator TAP Product Brief
    VSS 10/100/1000 and 1G v2x1 Aggregation TAPs enable refined traffic monitoring of full duplex networks on a single transmit-only monitor output port. An Injection model enables users to inject packets such as TCP resets into the network.
    v2x1 Injection TAP Product Brief
    The v2x1 Injection TAP allows the fail-safe pass through of duplex data over standard UTP Cat 5 cable. The aggregation feature of this TAP enables a user to monitor two duplex links on a single monitoring port, while the injection feature enables packets such as TCP resets to be injected from the monitoring server back through the network ports.
    v2x16 | v4x24 Distributed TAP Product Brief
    VSS' v2x16/v4x24 Distributed TAPs are Distributed Series models that bridge the gap between Gigabit and 10 GigE networks. The v2x16 has two 10G XFP and sixteen 1G UTP (or Fiber LC) ports. The v4x24 has four 10G XFP ports, sixteen 1G UTP (or Fiber LC) and eight 1G SFP ports. Any port can be designated an input or an output port**. In the case of the copper versions (UTP), the inputs can be user-configured for either Inline or SPAN access. With the fiber versions, the inputs are factory configured for either Inline or SPAN access. The fiber SPAN versions are fully I/O configurable, while the fiber Inline versions are fixed where the built-in network ports are inputs only and are completely passive. Mixed fiber variations are also available. The product is available in two editions: Standard and Advanced.
    v2x2 - v8x8 10G Distributed TAP Product Brief
    VSS' v2x2-v8x8 Distributed TAPs are all-10G Distributed Series models, available in a range of port densities. Models in this TAP family features two, four, or eight fixed Fiber LC ports and two, four, or eight XFP ports. The fixed media ports are factory configured for either Inline or SPAN access. The Fiber SPAN versions are fully I/O configurable, while the Fiber Inline versions are fixed where the built-in network ports are inputs only and are completely passive. Mixed fiber variations are also available.
    v2x2 Modular All-Optical TAP Product Brief
    The v2x2 Modular All-Optical Tap provides individual monitoring of fiber-based networks without power usage. The two to twelve inline network port pairs and two to twelve output monitor ports provide the most modular and highest rack-density solution available on the market today.
    v4x1 Injection TAP Product Brief
    The v4x1 Injection TAP receives traffic from up to 4 10/100/1000 data input streams. The aggregation feature of this Port Aggregator enables a user to monitor up to four SPAN sessions on a single monitoring port, while the injection feature enables packets such as TCP resets to be injected from the monitoring server back through the network ports.
    v4x1 Span Aggregation TAP Product Brief
    VSS 10/100/1000 and 1G v4x1 Span Port Aggregators enable refined traffic monitoring of four Span ports on a single transmit-only monitor output port. An Injection model enables users to inject packets such as TCP resets into the network.
    v6x4, v12x4, v24x4 Distributed TAPs Product Brief
    VSS' 10/100 v6x4, v12x4, and v24x4 Port Aggregators provide simultaneous traffic access of up to 6 and 12 Inline networks, or 12 and 24 SPAN ports to 4 monitor ports. Users have complete control over how the Port Aggregators, operating fully at layers 1 and 2, deliver traffic to their selected passive monitoring tools with selective aggregation.
    v6x6 Fiber Network TAP Product Brief
    The v6 x 6 Optical TAP provides individual monitoring of Ethernet-based networks without power usage. The twelve inline network ports and twelve output monitor ports provide the highest rack-density available on the market today.
    v6x6, v12x12, v24x24 Network TAPs Product Brief
    VSS 10/100 v6x6 / v12x12 / v24x24 Network TAPs allow uninterrupted pass-through of data over standard UTP copper. The TAPs will accurately duplicate 10Mbps and 100Mbps Ethernet signals (including all data and timing errors) to the transmit-only monitoring ports.
    v8 Cu | v12x4 Distributed TAP (v3) Product Brief
    VSS' v8/v12x4 Distributed TAPs are entry-level, lower port density 1G Distributed Series models. The v8 has eight UTP ports and the v12x4 Distributed TAP has 12 UTP (or Fiber LC) ports and 4 SFP ports. Any port can be designated an input port or output port**. In the case of the copper version (UTP), the inputs can be user-configured for either Inline or SPAN access. With the fiber versions, the inputs are factory configured for either Inline or SPAN access.
    v8x1, v8x2 TAP Switch Product Brief
    VSS' All Optical TAP Switches allow selectable monitoring of any one of eight inline or Span network streams. Network access is selected locally through the front panel push-button or through the management interface. The TAPs are certified to accurately duplicate 100M, 1G, and 10 GigE signals (including all data and timing errors) to the transmit-only monitoring ports. OC3, OC12, and OC48 builds are also available on request.
    v12x12 Fiber Network TAP Product Brief
    The v12x12 Optical TAP provides individual monitoring of Ethernet-based networks without power usage. The twelve inline network ports and twelve output monitor ports provide the highest rack-density available on the market today. The v12x12 Optical TAP is certified to interoperate with 100 Mbps
    v12x4 Injection TAP Product Brief
    VSS' 10/100/1000/1G v12x4 Managed Injection TAP provides simultaneous traffic access of up to 6 Inline networks or 12 SPAN ports to 4 monitor ports. Users have complete control over how the TAPs, operating fully at layers 1 and 2, deliver traffic to their selected passive monitoring tools with selective aggregation. An Injection feature enables users to inject packets such as TCP resets into the network.
    v16x8 Distributed TAP Product Brief
    v24 Distributed TAP Product Brief
    The 10G/1G v24 Distributed TAP has four 10G fixed media ports and twenty individually activatable 10G/1G SFP+ ports that allow for flexible traffic access. Users have complete control over how the TAP, operating fully at layers 1 and 2, refines and delivers traffic to their selected passive monitoring tools with VSS' Base feature set on Standard editions and VSS' Base, Packet Optimization, and Specific Application feature sets on Expert editions.
    S2E 2026 Product Brief
    The Optimizer 2016 LTE Distributed Filter TAP is a highly flexible, intelligent traffic capture device targeted specifically for 4G/LTE networks ranging from 10Mbps to 10 GigE. The device features two XFP ports, and 16 dedicated copper UTP 10/100/1000 or Fiber Gigabit ports. Each of the 18 ports is independently controllable and flexible, allowing the user to forward any group of network ports to any monitoring device.
    Finder 10G 2400 Product Brief
    The 10G Finder 2400 has four 10 GigE fixed media ports and twenty individually activatable 10G/1G SFP+ ports allow for flexible traffic access. Users have complete control over how the Finder, operating fully at layers 1 and 2, refines and delivers traffic to their selected active and passive monitoring tools with VSS' Base, Packet Optimization, Specific Application, and Finder feature sets. The Finder 2400 supports Email and IP object searching and tracking for up to 80G worth of traffic, and supports DPI RegEx object, pattern, and signature searching, detection, and tracking for up to 40G worth of traffic.
    ObjectFinder Series Product Brief
    The Finder Series allows large-scale real-time deep packet filtering based on object, pattern, and signature detection. It accesses and delivers traffic from one or more full-duplex networks to multiple network intelligence tools to provide compliant "clean" searches for authorized lawful interception (LI), fraud prevention, and other ultra sensitive parameters.
    vProtector 10G Product Brief
    The Protector Series accesses, captures, and delivers traffic from one or more full-duplex networks to multiple active and passive network intelligence tools. Policy-based triggers, health checks, and fail-open / fail-closed configurability combine with filtering and load balancing to provide redundancy and high availability for in-band and out-of-band visibility.
    vProtector 1G Product Brief
    VSS' Protector 204, 408, 416, & 612 Inline Load Balancers allow inline bypass, aggregation, load balancing, and grooming of traffic. The Protector is designed to scale to any size deployment for virtually any budget. The 204, 408, and 612 models ship with four, eight, and twelve fixed UTP ports, respectively, for redirecting traffic from 10/100/1000 networks having Fail Open (Bypass or pass-through) capability. The remaining respective four, eight, and twelve ports are enabled for redirecting traffic from 10/100/1000 networks having Fail Closed (traffic blocked) capability.
  • WHITEPAPERS & FEATURE BRIEFS
  • Whitepapers
    9 ways to Optimize your Network Security with Network Packet Brokers
    Nine ways to rapidly deploy, scale and optimize security solutions with confidence using VSS Monitoring Network Packet Brokers.
    Network Intelligence Optimization with VSS Network Packet Brokers
    Breakthrough ROI for network intelligence tools and solutions by incorporating Network Packet Brokers (NPB).
    Network Packet Brokers for Higher Education
    Network Packet Brokers provide higher education with a budget-friendly approach to address increasing bandwidth demands, while maintaining appropriate monitoring and security infrastructures.
    Limitless Monitoring and Security Tool Environments with Network Packet Brokers
    Expand your network monitoring and security environments without access constraints by deploying VSS network packet brokers.
    Optimizing Proof-of-concepts with VSS Monitoring Network Packet Brokers
    VSS Monitoring's network packet brokers allows companies to safely conduct a POC for security or monitoring tools using real-time data, to one or more tools or solutions with identical data, with zero network impact. This enables a true POC or comparison of competing solutions and offers immediate activation to speed up mean time to resolution.
    Monitoring Cable Video with Network Packet Brokers
    Using VSS Network Packet Brokers to increase visibility and ensure a satisfactory end-user experience
    Optimize Network Monitoring for Real World Threats - a SANS whitepaper
    This paper explores threats today's networks face that impact monitoring capabilities, typical gaps, and ways that security and monitoring can be improved.
    Monitoring a 10G Network with 1G Monitoring Tools
    Leveraging current 1G monitoring tools to monitor increasingly faster networks with VSS network packet brokers.
  • Feature Briefs
    Give your security tools bi-directional insight into SSL traffic with vInspector
    See inside your SSL traffic with VSS Monitoring vInspectorTM Series solution.
    High Frequency Trading Feature Brief
    5 ways to improve the efficiency of network monitoring in High Frequency Trading (HFT) environment.
    Microbursts
    Prevent packet loss from microbursts with VSS high data burst buffering Prevent packet loss caused by microbursts in network traffic with VSS Monitoring Network Packet Brokers unique high data burst buffering features.
    vMesh
    vMesh is a resilient, high-availability fabric architecture that connects VSS Monitoring network packet brokers (NPBs), using VSS' underlying vStack+™ technology, to enable a system-level approach to the network monitoring and security infrastructure. It creates unprecedented visibility, density, and scalability for NPBs and for the analysis and service assurance solutions they support.
    Packet De-Duplication
    VSS NPBs provided packet de-duplication capability ensuring optimal monitoring and security tool processing.

    VSS Monitoring NPBs provide packet de-duplication capability eliminating duplicate packets and the confusion created from monitoring and security analysis results.
    Calculating Allowable Splitter Loss
    A how-to paper focused on calculating allowable splitter loss for network TAPs.
    Port and Time Stamping
    Port and time stamping capabilities with industry-leading latency. VSS's port stamping enables tools to know exactly where the traffic came from in the distributed network. VSS time stamping provides the most accurate indication of when traffic was present on the network. Together, these features enable a more accurate and effective security and monitoring infrastructure.
    Protocol Stripping
    Proprietary network tags are not an issue with VSS Monitoring NPBs. VSS monitoring NPBs ensure that proprietary network tags do not have an impact on monitoring and security tools solutions. This feature works in two different ways: 1) it strips proprietary network tags from packets for those tools that do not process these tags, and 2) leaving the proprietary tag in place and extend the filtering and load-balancing features to the TCP portion of the packet.
    vCapacity™
    VSS provides packet details at industry-leading nanosecond increments VSS Monitoring's unique ability to capture network packet level details at a nanosecond level to determine if microbursts are occurring in network traffic.
    vSlice™
    Slice within a packet while preserving monitoring and security packet relevance. VSS Monitoring NPB's with vSlice™ technology provide the industry's only inner-packet slicing capability, allowing the packet to be sliced at any given offset to eliminate sensitive or junk information from the packet while speeding up the transfer at the same time and ensuring optimal efficiency of monitoring and security tools and solutions.
    LinkSafe
    Only VSS's LinkSafe enables traffic re-routing during a network link failure. VSS Monitoring's unique LinkSafe feature communicates a link level failure to both end devices there for allowing the network to re-route traffic during a network link failure.
    vAssure™
    Unique to VSS - vAssure™ keeps traffic flowing in a power outage. Only VSS Monitoring's NPBs with vAssure™ technology keep network traffic flowing if affected by a power outage in a full-duplex cooper 1G environment.
    Packet Fragmentation
    Reconstruct fragmented packets for delivery to monitoring and security tools with VSS NPBs. VSS Monitoring NPB's exceed current industry capabilities with the exclusive ability to reconstruct fragmented packets prior to tool(s) distribution ensuring that complete packets are processed by monitoring and security tools.
    Filtering with VSS
    Hardware-based filtering in VSS NPB's enable 100% processing effort for all monitoring and security tools. L2-7 + Custom-off-set filtering done in hardware - is included and purpose built in all intelligent VSS Monitoring products, removing irrelevant information from a copy of the overall stream of data before directing the selected information to the security or monitoring tools. Therefore enabling those tools and solutions to focus 100% of their processing efforts on analyzing the exact data of interest.
    Load balancing
    Make your monitoring and security environment more efficient with VSS load balancing.
  • CASE STUDIES & JOINT SOLUTION BRIEFS
  • Case Studies
    High Availability for Malware Protection - FireEye and VSS Monitoring Case Study
    Add 100% fault tolerance to your FireEye and BlueCoat security tool deployment.
    ASP2 Citrix
    A regional telecommunications provider maintains the highest quality of service while growing market share, with VSS Monitoring Network Packet Brokers.
    Telecom
    A regional telecommunications provider maintains the highest quality of service while growing market share, with VSS Monitoring Network Packet Brokers.
    Chinese Mobile Provider launches 4GTD-LTE
    The worlds' largest mobile carrier gains network visibility painlessly with VSS Monitoring.
    Financial Service Provider
    A full-service personal bank optimizes their security and monitoring tools ROI with VSS Monitoring.
    School Upgrades their Security
    One of the largest US school districts uses VSS Monitoring to reduce CapEx, while increasing their network security flexibility and ensuring easy future expansion.
    US WiMax Provider
    A US WiMax provider manages their monitoring environment during explosive bandwidth growth in a distributed network with VSS Monitoring.
  • Joint Solution Briefs
    Providing comprehensive network visibility and security with McAfee and VSS Monitoring
    Achieve maximum network security flexibility with McAfee inline security tools and VSS Monitoring's Network Packet Brokers.
    Deploy, scale and optimize network security with Sourcefire IPS & VSS
    Learn how to deploy, scale and optimize network security at the speed of business with Sourcefire and VSS Network Packet Brokers.
    Maximum web security and policy control with M86 & VSS
    Flexible, budget-conscious security solutions that meet the varying environments for a range of organizations with M86 Security and VSS Monitoring.
    Monitoring Redundant networks with NetWitness & VSS
    Ensuring that your network is equipped to collect and combine asymmetric network streams for optimized monitoring and security without doubling your monitoring budget.
    Scalable WAN Optimization, network security and Complete network Visibility with Blue Coat & VSS
    Eliminate WCCP requirements for inline deployment of Blue Coat ProxySG appliances with VSS Monitoring NPBs.
    Scale and Optimize Network Security with Cisco IPS & VSS
    Cisco IPS and VSS Monitoring together provide an affordable, highly scalable approach to comprehensive network visibility and security.
    Complete Network Analysis with Cisco NAM & VSS
    VSS Monitoring NPBs deliver unparalleled visibility and scalability for Cisco NAM appliance.
    Optimizing the IBM IPS solution with VSS
    Easily and rapidly deploy, scale and optimize IBM Security Network IPS solutions with VSS Monitoring NPBs.
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