TAP Into Technology Blog: Network Packet Brokers
Breathe New Life Into Your Existing Packet Broker
If you have been in networking long enough, you may have heard the phrase “breathe new life into old tools.” This concept is simple - security and monitoring tools only perform as well as the data they process. So solely relying on SPAN...
Network Packet Brokers: Tunneling Explained
We’ve discussed why network packet brokers are an essential component for the increasingly crowded data center, for traffic aggregation and load balancing. We’ve also begun diving into specific advanced features such as deduplication....
Packet Deduplication Explained
Duplicate packets are one of those things that happen in a busy network. Although using different network equipment and optimizing your network will minimize duplicates, they’ll still crop up on a fairly regular basis. This can be a...
Network Packet Brokers Explained
We all know traffic across the data center is increasing. The migration towards 100G ethernet is well underway, with 28% of data centers undergoing the upgrade as of 2018. Meanwhile, 400G ethernet is available and creeping towards...
Network Packet Visibility for Hybrid Cloud Environment
Nearly all cyber attacks must cross the network, so extracting security-relevant data from network traffic is essential across a wide range of security operations. As teams are moving to the cloud, they lose physical access to applications...
Improve Network Packet Broker ROI with an Aggregation Layer
The aggregation layer, and thus the four-tiered approach to network visibility grew out of the need to maximize the ROI of NPBs and monitoring and security tools. Before we talk about the aggregation layer and the benefits it brings, let’s...