Maximize Network Visibility: SPAN Access Best Practices for Security Tools

Discover how to properly connect out-of-band security and monitoring tools to your network using SPAN mirror ports. This essential guide reveals proven techniques for protecting SPAN ports, aggregating multiple inputs, and extending visibility to remote sites—all while preventing packet injection and ensuring your tools receive the complete traffic visibility they need to perform. Whether you're deploying IDS, NDR, SIEM, or APM solutions, learn how Hardware Data Diodes and Network Packet Brokers can transform your SPAN deployments from simple access points into robust, scalable network visibility infrastructure

• Protect SPAN ports from packet injection with Hardware Data Diodes
• Aggregate up to 100G of SPAN traffic from multiple switches to single tools
• Connect remote site SPAN links to centralized monitoring tools using Layer 2 GRE
• Load balance and filter traffic to optimize tool performance and bandwidth
• Support multiple out-of-band tools with varying speed and protocol requirements
• Implement advanced packet broker features: deduplication, slicing, and timestamping
• Overcome media type incompatibilities between switches and monitoring tools