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Chapter 2 Introduction
Bypass Switch TAP/Aggregator User Manual
Acceleration appliances, however the complexity and maintenance of these systems can lower
network availability. The Bypass TAP maintains high-network availability, including intelligent
heartbeat, by providing optical bypass when in-line systems crash, degrade in performance,
require security updates, or need maintenance.
The five network taps can connect to up to seven (7) in-line appliance ports and includes
support for load balancing and appliance redundancy. For example, a network tool could load
balanced traffic across three IPS security appliances, and if one system is down, the
Bypass TAP automatically redistributes traffic across the remaining two systems providing IPS
appliance redundancy.
The Bypass TAP provides advanced network monitoring to select and groom traffic of interest
to external monitoring tools, using any of the available 14 ports of copper or optical 1G/10G
Ethernet. Systems can initially be installed as monitor only, then switched in-line when ready,
making it easy to insert or remove in-line security tools.
All-in-one visibility
The Bypass TAP is part of APCON’s premier I
NTELLA
F
LEX
XR network monitoring family, and is
compatible with all systems from 1RU to 8RU. Enhanced multi-site management with T
ITAN
XR
centralized management with W
EB
XR.
Overview
This section provides a brief overview of the Bypass TAP and how the failback capability
prevents network traffic loss should a device connected to an Appliance port fail or a Link loss
occurs.
Some typical in-line monitoring configurations include Passive or Aggregated TAP
configurations, as shown below:
For some monitoring applications, a network tool can be placed in-line between network
nodes, as shown below.
