Network TAP

Colasoft TAP High-Density Data Collection & Distribution

High-density traffic access point with zero packet loss for 10G/100G traffic collection, intelligent filtering and distribution. Break through traditional mirroring bottlenecks with line-rate forwarding.

Colasoft Enhanced Network TAP, also known as TAP Traffic Distribution Product, is a significant achievement of Colasoft's over twenty years of focus on network traffic analysis technology. This product breaks through the limitations of traditional switch mirror (SPAN) ports, adopting dedicated hardware design and Software-Defined Networking (SDN) architecture to achieve high-performance, zero packet loss network traffic collection, filtering, and intelligent distribution.

In today's complex network environment, network traffic is growing exponentially. Traditional SPAN ports often face issues such as insufficient bandwidth, severe packet loss, and complex configuration, making it difficult to meet modern network monitoring needs. Colasoft TAP perfectly solves these pain points through innovative technical architecture. It can forward network packets at line rate, maintaining zero packet loss performance in high-speed network environments of 10G, 40G, or even 100G, ensuring that monitoring tools can obtain complete and accurate network traffic data.

The product supports various flexible traffic distribution modes, including traffic aggregation (many-to-one), traffic replication (one-to-many), load balancing, and more. It provides intelligent filtering rules based on multiple dimensions such as five-tuple, VLAN, and protocols. This enables enterprises to precisely distribute critical traffic to different security devices, monitoring tools, or analysis platforms according to actual business needs, achieving optimal configuration of network resources.

Software Enhanced Tap Switch (TAP)

TAP products adopt advanced tapping architecture design, supporting flexible traffic access, filtering, aggregation and distribution

Colasoft TAP Network Topology Diagram
Product Features

Core Product Features

Colasoft TAP provides comprehensive network traffic collection and management capabilities to meet complex network monitoring requirements

Traffic Access

Support multiple network interface traffic access with non-intrusive data collection

Intelligent Filtering

Intelligent traffic filtering based on multiple rules for precise target traffic identification

Traffic Aggregation

Aggregate traffic from multiple network ports to a single monitoring interface

Traffic Replication

Replicate traffic from a single data source to multiple monitoring tools

Load Balancing

Intelligently distribute traffic to multiple analysis tools for optimized resource utilization

Real-time Monitoring

Monitor network traffic status in real-time to ensure data collection reliability

Traffic Optimization

Deduplication, compression and other traffic optimization techniques to improve transmission efficiency

Centralized Management

Unified management interface to simplify configuration and operation

Technical Features

Three Core Characteristics

Breaking Traditional Mirroring Bottlenecks

Overcome the limitations of traditional switch mirror ports, supporting flexible traffic distribution modes such as many-to-one and one-to-many, solving problems like insufficient SPAN port bandwidth and severe packet loss.

Software-Defined Reconfiguration Support

Adopting SDN architecture design, supporting software-defined traffic distribution policies that can flexibly adjust traffic paths and distribution rules according to business needs, enabling intelligent network traffic management.

Full-Duplex Line-Rate Packet Processing

Provides full-duplex line-rate packet processing capability, supporting 10G/100G high-speed network environments, ensuring zero packet loss under high load conditions to meet critical business system monitoring requirements.

Product Advantages

Core Advantages

High-Performance Line-Rate Forwarding

Using dedicated hardware processing chips to achieve line-rate packet forwarding, ensuring zero packet loss under any load conditions, guaranteeing monitoring tools receive complete and accurate network traffic data.

Meets Domestic Requirements

Core technology independently developed, meeting national information security and domestic substitution requirements, supporting domestic operating systems and hardware platforms, providing secure and reliable solutions for critical information infrastructure.

Efficient TAP and Traffic Analysis Synergy

Seamlessly integrated with Colasoft Network Analysis System, enabling end-to-end collaboration from traffic collection, distribution to analysis, providing complete solutions from data collection to problem diagnosis.

Application Scenarios

TAP Combined with Traffic Analysis Devices

Colasoft TAP can work with various traffic analysis devices to meet monitoring needs in different scenarios

Network Security Monitoring

Distribute network traffic to Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS), Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPS) and other security devices to achieve network-wide security posture awareness and threat detection.

Performance Analysis and Optimization

Work with Network Performance Monitoring (NPM) tools to analyze network performance metrics in real-time, quickly locate performance bottlenecks, and optimize network architecture and configuration.

Packet Capture and Forensics

Cooperate with packet capture systems to store network traffic data long-term, supporting historical retrospective analysis and forensic investigation.

Application Performance Monitoring

Distribute application layer traffic to Application Performance Monitoring (APM) tools for deep analysis of business system operation status and user experience.

Compliance Auditing

Work with audit systems to record and analyze network access behavior, meeting compliance requirements such as security standards and ISO27001.

Fault Diagnosis

Combined with network analysis tools to quickly locate and diagnose network faults, reducing Mean Time To Recovery (MTTR).

Ready to Experience Colasoft TAP

Contact our expert team for a personalized product demo and solution consultation. We will help you build an efficient and reliable network monitoring system.

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