TAP Into Technology Blog: Network Management
When A Simple SPAN Port Is Enough
The two most common ways to access and replicate data within your network are TAP and SPAN technology. A Test Access Point (TAP) is a hardware device that copies all of your network data. SPAN or Switch Port Analyzer are mirroring ports...
Detect The 5 Common Threats Of Network Downtime
Network downtime is a costly reality of running a business, and unfortunately, it’s more likely to happen to you than not. If Google, Amazon and the United States Government have dealt with such issues, it’s a safe bet that you’re going to...
How to Connect your Inline Application Monitoring Tools in 5 Steps
It goes without saying, but proper application monitoring is a critical component of sound network management. Let the following example show you: Say you have two critical 10G links that you need to monitor with a few inline network...
Fiber Optical Networking
Greater Data Speeds but New Challenges to Consider As we begin seeing much higher bandwidth speeds for data communications using fiber optical connections and enter into the non-linear world of photonic communications, many things will...
When QUIC isn't so Quick
In the beginning, SPDY, an open networking protocol developed primarily at Google for transporting web content was supported on Internet Explorer and Chrome web browsers through a default setting. The core developers of SPDY were involved...
Overcoming 100G Bandwidth Demands in Network Monitoring
100G networks are no longer the future talk for many data center, telco and enterprise network architects. The 100G future is here - our consumption of everything video - including YouTube, Facebook Live, Netflix and Amazon Video will...