[101007] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Giga fiber Tap
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Frank Coluccio)
Fri Nov 30 01:44:10 2007
From: Frank Coluccio <frank@dticonsulting.com>
To: "Sean Donelan" <sean@donelan.com>,
"Christopher Morrow" <christopher.morrow@gmail.com>
Reply-To: frank@dticonsulting.com
Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 00:35:22 -0600
Cc: "=?EUC-KR?B?waTEob+1?=" <lionair@samsung.com>,
"nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Unless I'm misreading the requirement, this=20
sounds like a job for a Calient or a Glimmerglass=20
optical switch, capable of non-intrusive bridging=20
and/or insertion. For large jobs, in any case.
A demo of the Glimmerglass device can be viewed=20
on the company's "Government Signals Monitoring=20
and Analysis" page:
http://www.glimmerglass.com/defense.aspx=20
Frank=20=20
On Thu Nov 29 22:22 , "Christopher Morrow" sent:
>On Nov 29, 2007 6:58 PM, Sean Donelan sean@donelan.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, 30 Nov 2007, =C1=A4=C4=A1=BF=B5 wrote:
>> > Because of some reasons, I have to install some giga fiber tap for pac=
ket
>> > monitor into critical lan point, and the taps must be there permanentl=
y.
>>
>> Some folks speculate the NSA likes using ADC monitor and splitter modules
>> http://www.adc.com/Library/Literature/104215AE.pdf
>>
>> I prefer using Netoptics network taps
>> http://www.netoptics.com/
>>
>
>I've used both of these, I like them both, so 2 votes for these 2.... :)
