Can anyone recommend taps for FE/GE(copper & fiber)?

[bjellig]

I'm looking to conserve my available SPAN sessions by utilizing network taps for some key IDS locations. Can anyone point me to a vendor or two that they've used for 10/100(/1000) taps?

Thanks!

Bill

[scruggss]

Bill,

My company recently purchased some taps to dual-home some IDS systems that we have running.

I believe we got taps from Datacom. Here's the link if you want to check them out.

http://www.datacomsystems.com/datacom/prod/versatap/versatap.asp

-Steve

[Nick Egloff]

We ended up using NetOptics for our 10/100 taps. The biggest issue with most taps is that they output 2 half-duplex connections and depending on what you want to look at, you still would need either SPAN or some equivalent to recombine them into one data stream...

I wish Datacom's SingleStream had been available then (almost a year ago).. http://www.datacomsystems.com/datacom/prod/taps/eth/singlestream.asp - it may have made a difference which tap we used :-)

NetOptic's equivalent is available now http://www.netoptics.com/products/product_family_details.asp?cid=4&pid=3&Section=products&menuitem=4 but wasn't at the time we bought it.

...Nick

[melangnghe]

Hi Nick,

Did the taps solution work well for you? Did you experience loss of alert traffic or any problem that you can share?

Since we have 3 devices (one IDS, one network sniffer plus another monitoring device) that need to use span port, is it possible to use the Net Optics’ innovative 10/100 Port Aggregator Taps?

Thanks,

Zenna.