Passive fiber optical TAPs create perfect copies of all traffic at full bandwidth. They require no power or management and do not actively interact with other components of the network. Gigamon offers several passive optical TAP solutions:

• High-density network TAPs: G-TAP^® M Series
• Embedded bypass network TAPs: GigaVUE-HC2
  
• Network TAPs for Cisco BiDi links: G-TAP BiDi
  
• Economical network TAPs: G-TAP G Series
  

Active TAPs are used in networks where copper cabling or optical budgets do not allow for passive TAPs. In the event of a power failure, active TAPs have battery backup to keep them running and will send an alert to indicate the failure. A type of active TAP called a bypass TAP also has a relay that closes when it loses power, maintaining the network connection and minimizing traffic disruption. Gigamon active network TAP solutions include:

• Active network TAPs: G-TAP A Series
• Embedded tapping for 1Gb Copper: GigaVUE-HC1, GigaVUE-HC2
• Embedded bypass TAPs: GigaVUE-HC2
  

For traffic acquisition, light weight G-vTAPs are deployed within AWS, Microsoft Azure or OpenStack instances that mirror traffic via IPSec to GigaVUE^® V Series nodes.

Key benefits include:·       

• Single, light weight instance minimizes impact on Gigamon nodes
• Reduces application downtime — there is no need to redesign applications when adding new tools
• Agents filter traffic of interest prior to sending it via IPSec to the GigaVUE V Series nodes to reduce data-egress and application costs

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