Copper Network Solutions

Copper Networks came into being with the invention of the telephone over 100 years ago. Copper wires were (and still are) perfectly fine for transmitting voice signals. And while copper cabling does have its limitations regarding network speed, bandwidth and distance, for many industries, Copper is still the backbone of the network. Copper is still king in part because of the accuracy and reliability in industrial and manufacturing environments where the environment must be considered. Copper cabling is still prevalent for Industrial Ethernet deployments, with over 77% market share.

While fiber is certainly rising in popularity, copper networks and thus copper Network TAPs are still very important:

• More affordable. Adding a copper network TAP is the obvious answer in a network already containing copper cabling. Changing a system from copper to fiber is a very expensive and time consuming endeavor.
• Suitable for factory settings. Cat6 cables are very effective at reducing errors and signal-to-noise ratios that can jeopardize critical infrastructure.
• Effective for lower speed data centers. The 100M limitation of copper cables is more than enough to run in data center environments.
• Media Conversion. What happens when you have a monitoring tool that isn't the same media type as your live connection or vice versa?

Whitepaper

EMA Security Visibility Technology

This whitepaper by EMA (Enterprise Management Associates) explores best practices on how enterprises use network visibility technologies for both inline and out-of-band security use cases to support security solutions

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White Paper

Secrets To Tapping Copper Networks

This whitepaper with review why tapping copper networks is critical for ensuring that key performance management, security and data collection tools see 100% of the traffic flowing in and out of the environment.

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