[c-nsp] Physical Network TAP devices

[Rick Martin]

We have yet to make a purchase but over the years we have looked at several with GigaMon being one of the leaders. An interesting option that I think we will seriously consider is Cisco Nexus 9K platform running what Cisco calls Data Broker. I find it appealing that the Nexus switch can run in hybrid mode and function both as a tap aggregation device as well as a normal Nexus switch. This option can reportedly scale up to 100Gbps

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collateral/cloud-systems-management/nexus-data-broker/data_sheet_c78-729452.html

Other options we have looked at include;

Anue
Arista - similar option as Cisco Data Broker
GigaMon
Ixia



-----Original Message-----
From: cisco-nsp [mailto:cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Nick Cutting
Sent: Monday, July 17, 2017 12:39 PM
To: cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net; Tom Mazzola
Subject: [c-nsp] Physical Network TAP devices

Good afternoon,

We have a use case now to capture traffic at one of our egress points, and we need to use network taps.  We need at least 2 sources and two destinations, in a pair of devices. - Copper 1 gig at this point.  Is anyone using Copper/ Fiber Taps at 10g?

Can I please get some feedback on some of the brands of taps that you fine people use?

We were looking at gigamon, but I have not used TAPs in a very long time.  We have a need to move to a physical device because of limitations in the hardware in where we need to capture the traffic.  

Any feedback is greatly appreciated.



Thank you,
Nick Cutting 




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