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:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Nick Cutting Sent: Monday, July 17, 2017 12:39 PM To: [email protected]; 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 _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/ _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
