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GigaVUE® 420

The GigaVUE® 420 is a modular packet-aware Data Access Switch supporting 10/100/1000 & 10Gig Ethernet. GigaVUE-420 aggregates, multicasts, filters, & divides traffic flows across multiple passive monitoring tools. It is a purposebuilt hardware switch capable of full line rate performance and transfer latency of only 6 ?sec. Nearly any number of traffic sources may be aggregated, filtered, & then distributed to one or more monitoring tools at any speed. Hardware filters based on any element in the 126-byte header may be enabled to eliminate unwanted packets. The system is managed remotely by telnet or SSH2 & authenticated with TACAC+ or RADIUS.





GigaVUE Features:
Any-to-Any connectivity to solve tool deployment problems
Aggregate multiple links to consolidate tools
Multicast to multiple tools to share data sources
Intelligently filter and divide loads to customize and
manage data to different tools
Solutions for monitoring asynchronously routed Ethernet
networks including 10 GigE
Hardware based design for full line rate performance and
near-zero latency
Advanced security features protect your data

GigaVUE Benefits:
Immediate ROI by consolidating distributed tools and
reducing management expense
Affordable solution to 10 Gig monitoring
Accurately measure time sensitive protocols and QoS
Reduce packet loss to improve monitoring fidelity
Support continuous monitoring and scalable growth with
hot-swap modules
Save rack space, cost, & complexity with optional integrated
taps

GigaVUE Applications:
Isolate & capture sessions across multiple links and switches
Share scarce span ports between multiple tool
Reduce and customize data flow to each tool
Divide large loads across multiple tools
Monitor 10G links with legacy 1G tools
Aggregate multiple links simultaneously to multiple tools

GigaPORT Expansion Module
The GigaPort Expansion adds 4 ports. Each port can be independently set as 10/100/1000 Base-T RJ-45 Ethernet, or 1000 Base-Sx/Lx/Zx Ethernet with multimode or singlemode SFP.



Optional Accessories:
SFP (optical transceiver):
Sx 850 nm (550Meter)
Lx 1310 nm (10km)
Zx 1550 nm (40km)

GigaTAP-Sx, GigaTAP-Lx, GigaTAP-Zx
The GigaPort Expansion adds 4 optical splitter ports: can tap two MM or SM FDX fiber links. Split ratio 70/30.
Link TAP Mechanism:
Links protected by passive optical splitter (split ratio 70/30).



GigaTAP-Tx
The GigaTAP-Tx adds four RJ-45 ports organized as two pairs; each pair taps a single 10/10/1000 Base-T FDX Ethernet link.



Link TAP Mechanism:
Electronically repeats the link signals when in ACTIVE mode and port-pairing established.


Optional Accessories:
SFP (optical transceiver):
Sx 850 nm (550Meter)
Lx 1310 nm (10km)
Zx 1550 nm (40km)

GigaLINK-SR, GigaLINK-LR, GigaLINK- ER

The GigaLINK -SR, -LR, or -ER adds one 10 Gigabit Ethernet fiber optic port to the GivaVUE-420. XFP included.



Link TAP Mechanism:
GLK-312 10 Gig port with XFP SR 850 nm (300 Meter) transceiver, LC connector
GLK-313 10 Gig port with XFP LR 1310 nm (10 km) transceiver, LC connector
GLK-314 10 Gig port with XFP ER 1550 nm (40 km) transceiver, LC connector

Optional Accessories:
XFP (Spare 10G optical transceiver):
XFP-502 SR 850 nm (300 Meter)
XFP-503 LR 1310 nm (10 km)
XFP-504 ER 1550 nm (40 km)

GigaLINK-Cu (10G Copper)
The GigaLINK-Cu adds one 10 Gigabit Ethernet copper CX-4 port.



Optional Accessories:
Stacking cable: CX4 copper cable (5/10/15 Meters)

A Data Access Network is a "Data Socket" for monitoring tools; adds, changes and moves can be executed at anytime without physical changes to the production network. Aggregation and multicasting allow consolidation of expensive tools and sharing of SPAN ports and taps. Speed changes and media conversion are easily accommodated.

Network traffic can be "mapped" using multi-rule filters such that data aggregated from multiple switches or taps can be redistributed to multiple load-sharing monitoring tools, with each tool analyzing a specific VLAN range, port number or IP subnet, thereby performing comprehensive monitoring without oversubscribing any single tool.

Data Access Network (DAN) is a revolutionary concept whose time has come. It is the "intermediation" gateway between the network and the tools, allowing distributed connectivity and flexible load balancing between the monitoring requirement of the production network and resources available from the mission critical monitoring tools.

Features
 
Functions
 
Benefits
Any-to-Any   Customers can dynamically deploy any tool to any link at anytime from anywhere  

Save money by improving network uptime

 

Any-to-Many   Can aggregate traffic from multiple links to deliver an “end-to-end” or a “big pipe" view  

Save money by using fewer and less expensive tools

 

Many-to-Any  

Can multiplex traffic to support multiple tools in order to satisfy conflicting monitoring demands

 

 

Save money by sharing SPAN ports and taps

Packet Filtering   Can customize and reduce traffic load on attached tools  

Save money by doing more with less

Today, every business is eBusiness, every network is mission critical and every online resource must be available 24x7. To stay competitive, you need higher performance, greater bandwidth, more reliability and lower cost. Downtime, slow response, security breaches and non-compliance with government regulations and industry standards not only can get you fired, but could potentially land you and your bosses in jail.

Today's network is complex. Redundant links are everywhere. Parallel links are combined into virtual channels. Load-balancers are breaking up data streams such that packets are made to travel along different physical paths. In other words, your business network has been completely "virtualized" making it impossible to monitor efficiently and cost-effectively with traditional physical-layer taps and monitoring tools.

Moreover, your security, IT and compliance teams are competing for data access because they each need to deploy different monitoring tools to meet their assigned fiduciary mandates and each of their tools needs to acquire replica traffic specific to its needs from across the entire network in order to accurately reconstruct relevant transactions.

You need a better solution to share SPAN ports and support multiple tools, to aggregate traffic so that everyone gets a customized view. You need to distribute aggregated traffic among multiple tools working in parallel in order to provide comprehensive coverage. Most importantly, you need to save money by reducing the total number of tools deployed when monitoring modern enterprise networks.

Our GigaVUE® Data Access Switch is designed to help you build a scalable and on-demand Data Access Network (DAN) for distributed "out-of-band" network monitoring

Pricing and Availability

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