Problem: Capturing all the traffic for analysis by monitoring devices risks inefficient use of bandwidth and storage on the monitoring devices and may also breach your compliance critria by capturing more information than is needed.

Solution: Hardware-Based Filtering on VSS taps allows the user to determine what type of traffic is copied from the network ports to the monitor ports based on Layer 2-7 criteria such as:

MAC (source, destination) IP (source, destination, range)	UDP/TCP/ICMP (port, range) VLAN, QoS, IP Service Type	Even /Odd Ports for RTP/RTCP Custom offset / masking filter
The benefits of filtering include improved aggregation, reduced traffic load to each monitor interface, more efficient operation of each monitor tool (as it receives only relevant traffic / traffic of interest) and greater monitor tool ROI

VSS Monitoring taps with advanced features such as content filtering and agregation, media and rate conversion, and secure management, are an ideal way of implementing a secure monitoring infrastructure and gaining maximum flexibility in use of monitoring systems.

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