Packet Flow Switches (PFS) and TAPs

Deliver cost-effective and complete packet visibility while streamlining your monitoring architecture and reducing security risks.

Strategic Packet Visibility for the Connected World. NETSCOUT’s disaggregated packet flow switch architecture enables strategic packet visibility that scales and operates dynamically, enabling pervasive visibility with NETSCOUT’s InfiniStream® appliances (part of the nGeniusONE® Service Assurance platform) or security systems, regardless of infrastructure modifications or changes in the source of network traffic. With TAPs and packet flow switches from NETSCOUT, service assurance, security assurance, and other monitoring tools can be physically anywhere and logically everywhere.

Features

The NETSCOUT nGenius® packet flow switch (PFS) and TAPs family enables multiple IT groups to aggregate, replicate, and manage the flows of traffic throughout the monitoring network, whether it’s for application performance monitoring, unified communications (UC), or security. Traffic management and security enablement capabilities ensure risk-free deployment of inline security and threat detection systems.

• Scalable Network Visibility. As your networks and traffic volumes grow, so too should your readiness to respond to issues as they arise.
• Active Inline Security. Inline packet flow switch deployments enable a pervasive defense architecture for inline and passive network protection.
• Decryption for Inline or Passive Tools. Inline or passive decryption gives visibility in the face of pervasive encryption.
• Eliminate Disruption to Traffic or Protocol Transactions. Simplify traffic acquisition and distribution for diverse network monitoring applications including performance management, service delivery management, and security monitoring.