The USR Gigabit Fiber TAPs provide an easy method to rapidly and effectively deploy analysis tools to observe and monitor traffic non-intrusively between two devices on a fiber network up to 100G. By design, fiber TAPs are totally passive, fault-tolerant, invisible to the network, with no power requirements so they will not affect network performance or integrity and can be trusted for permanent installations on a fiber network. These rock solid devices are ideal for real-time monitoring and analysis of full-duplex traffic between critical network devices such as switches, routers and firewalls and continue to pass errors that aren't seen using SPAN ports. Topology independent, the TAPs can be used for ATM, Gigabit, OC3-OC48, or SONET protocols and are available for both OS1-2 Singlemode and OM1-4 Multi-mode fiber networks.
Permanent inline monitoring and analysis | Monitoring & Analysis
Captures and delivers a copy of all traffic to any analysis tool
100% visibility into the network - including VLAN tags
View all traffic on both sides of full-duplex links
Reduces degradation of switch performance due to port mirroring
View Layer 1 and 2 errors such as runts and CRC errors not seen when performing network monitoring using SPAN ports
Full-duplex monitoring
Best method to measure network link's performance
Great for network analysis and troubleshooting, IDS and monitoring applications
Network Stability
Ideal for 24x7 permanent access - eliminating the need to connect tools each time a link needs to be monitored
Non-intrusive way to connect a network tool
Minimize traffic delay
Fault-tolerant design
Secure & Reliable
Passive access means no interference of network traffic
Invisible on the network - no IP address means additional security
No single point of failure
Network traffic will continue to pass uninterrupted
Excellent Compatibility
50/50 split ratio
Multi-mode model supports 1G, 10G, and 25G
Single-mode model supports 1G, 10G, 25G, 40G and 100G
Supports multiple topologies: Gigabit Ethernet, ATM, OC3-48, and SONET
Simple installation
Plug and play
No power required
Connectors on front for easy access and operation
Comes with convenient mounting tabs for use with the optional USR4522-RMK 4 unit 1U rackmount.