The SmartNA-XL™ 1/10/40G modular TAP & Packet Broker integrates a wide variety of Passive, Active, or Bypass TAP modules. These modules safely connect tools while protecting network reliability and availability. Additionally, there’s a rear slot for another 1/10/40G module, enabling connection to high-speed optical networks or tool farms, and stacking of SmartNA-XL™ units for scalability. The powerful non-blocking backplane ensures traffic flows at 10Mbps.
SmartNA-XL™
Our intelligent, hybrid TAP and packet broker introduces GRE support. Monitor your multi-site networks from a centralized location.
- 1G/10G/40G modular TAP & Packet Broker; custom access solutions for high and low-speed networks
- PacketPro™ advanced packet manipulation: Packet Slicing, Header Stripping, Payload Masking
- Passive Fiber Optic, Bypass 10, and Fastfail copper Gigabit TAP modules
- Hot-swap TAP modules for easy reconfiguration and expansion to meet evolving network demands
- Secure SNMP monitoring for integration into Network Management Systems
- Compatible with all major manufacturers’ monitoring tools, including protocol analyzers, probes and IDS
- Primary access solution for all packet capture, performance monitoring, lawful interception and forensic analysis applications
- Zero latency, no point of failure, no batteries required and 100% safe and efficient deployment of inline tools
- Flexible provision of new tools quickly and easily
- Real-time alerting
- Aggregating TAPs
- Aggregate SPAN/TAP traffic feeds across multiple network links, filtering, optimizing and feeding the combined traffic to connected security and monitoring tools for further analysis.
- Filtering TAPs
- Identify traffic based on signature or patterns across any part of the packet, or corresponding to application sessions, and forward to security appliances, increasing their efficacy and performance.
- Load-balancing TAPs
- Distribute traffic among multiple ports based on a variety of options: hashing, bandwidth, cumulative traffic, packet rate, connections, and more.
SmartNA-XL™
10/40G Hybrid Network Packet Broker
The SmartNA-XL™ 10/40G Hybrid Network Packet Broker The SmartNA-XL™ 1/10/40G modular TAP & Packet Broker, delivers high-speed performance and flexibility. It meets the needs of managing tools that protect network infrastructure, secure information, and combat ever-changing network threats.
With five slots to integrate a variety of Ethernet TAP modules in a modular 1RU chassis, the SmartNA-XL™ safely connects tools while preserving network reliability and availability. Even in case of power failure, network traffic continues to flow, establishing the SmartNA-XL™ as the clear leader in network access and visibility. Advanced features like aggregation, filtering, load balancing, and port mapping reduce planning, configuration, and tool management time.
Network Critical’s SmartNA-XL™ empowers organizations to securely, efficiently, and reliably manage the flow of information. Even during power failures, network traffic persists, reinforcing the SmartNA-XL™ as the leader in network access and visibility. The modular, customizable TAP modules, with a total of twenty 1/10/40Gbps SFP/SFP+ ports, offer versatility by providing network input and tool connection ports anywhere on the system.
Network Critical’s revolutionary Drag-n-Vu™ technology is a sophisticated computational engine with an intelligent and intuitive graphical user interface that enables fast, error-free configuration and simplifies change management.
SmartNA™ TAP Modules
(4) 1/10GbE SFP/SFP+
(2) LX or SX Optical,(2) 10/100/1000 Ethernet
(2) LX or SX Optical,(2) 1GbE SFP
(2) 10/100/1000 Ethernet,(2) 1GbE SFP
(4) 10/100/1000 Ethernet
(4) 1GbE, (2) 10GbE Packet Processing Engines
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