IN-LINE BYPASS SOLUTIONS
Ensuring Network Availability while Implementing and Managing In-Line Appliances
A Bypass Switch ensures your network’s most important data doesn’t fail even when in-line monitoring devices do.
Don’t let monitoring tool failures turn into costly network outages
Engineered to fit networks of all sizes, bypass switches from Datacom Systems provide fail-safe network protection, high-availability, and redundant security for in-line monitoring deployments.
The Best Practice for Deploying & Managing In-Line Monitoring Appliances
Many of today’s security solutions are designed to sit “in-line” right between two network devices where you want to monitor traffic, such as a router and a switch. Placing a monitoring appliance directly in-line can introduce several potential issues:
- If the device fails, the link goes down, or there is a power outage, the in-line tool creates a single point of failure (SPOF) on the network.
- Appliance processing or oversubscription can increase latency, increase delays and degrade network performance
- Data integrity can be compromised by frame misalignment or dropped packets
Example of a typical in-line appliance deployment
In-line appliances create the risk of a single point of failure
An in-line bypass switch, overcomes this problem and helps avoid costly downtime by providing
- a safe fail-over solution to keep networks up and running optimally if an in-line appliance fails or is experiencing issues
- the capability to implement and manage in-line tools without having to disrupt the network or impact business availability when tools require maintenance or replacement
High Availability Mode for Redundant Monitoring Solutions
In High Availability mode, a primary and secondary appliance is implemented with a bypass switch.
The bypass will swap between the primary and secondary appliance in the event of a loss of heartbeats or link. This allows the services provided by the appliance to be maintained even in the event of an appliance failure.
