Importance of Performance Analyzers and Taps to the Manufacturer's competitive flow of information:

Performance analyzers are crucial to determining bottleneck and performance failures not only in the corporate environment but also in the operation facilities.

VSS monitoring centralizes the network monitoring infrastructure and reduces the number of monitoring tools required at each location, thereby, greatly lowering incidence response time.

*Analyzers – Analyzer-Tap Solution Diagrams

Importance of Forensics boxes and Taps to the regulatory compliance of the Manufacturing Enterprise network:

Maintaining a continuous record of network traffic can be crucial to achieving network security, corporate accountability and, ultimately, regulatory compliance. Forensics tools deployed in combination with VSS monitoring Taps can be enormously leveraged, allowing a single Forensics device to actively monitor large numbers of inline and span inputs, without compromise to signal integrity.

*Forensics – Forensic-Tap Solution Diagrams

Other monitoring tools and Taps:
Monitoring tools such as IDSes and sniffers can be useful or even essential depending on the structure and sensitivity of your network.
*IDes – IDS-Tap Solution Diagrams
*Sniffers

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VSS monitoring's Taps are capable of more than just 'tapping' a network signal to a monitoring device. They can be the driving force behind providing exactly what any large Manufacturer demands from its network: exceptional performance and security, compliance with relevant IT regulations and conformance to a set IT budget.

VSS monitoring's Distributed line of Taps enable deployment of a hierarchical monitoring architecture that allows for central, remote monitoring of multiple networks with as little as a single monitoring tool. Having central visibility and constant access to every critical link in a network can mean near instant troubleshooting, less downtime and, of course, compliance with current IT regulations.

The following diagram illustrates one possible monitoring deployment within a large Manufacturer's network.