Capabilities of Inline Bypass Solutions

The Inline Bypass solution offers the following capabilities:

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Guides traffic through one or more inline tools according to user-defined bidirectional connectivity arrangements among respective inline network ports and inline tool ports.

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Reacts to failure conditions, such as the failure of inline tools, or the failure of links leading to the end-point devices between which the inline tool is inserted.

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Configures maps to associate inline networks with inline tools and inline tool groups.

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Supports bidirectional heartbeat and negative heartbeat to monitor inline tool health.

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Supports protected and unprotected inline networks.

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Supports physical bypass with specialized hardware on GigaVUE‑HC3, , GigaVUE‑HC1 and GigaVUE‑HC1-Plus(bypass combo modules equipped with optical protection switches)

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Supports physical bypass on and GigaVUE‑HC1 (TAP modules equipped with electrical relays).

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Distributes traffic across multiple inline tools, providing load sharing and traffic redistribution in the event of a tool failure.

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Supports out-of-band maps for selective forwarding of inline traffic to monitoring tools.

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Supports the sharing of inline tools by multiple inline networks.

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Supports N+1 and 1+1 inline tool redundancy for inline tool groups.

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Supports guiding inline traffic through inline tools in a serial fashion.

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Supports inline Flow Mapping® through rule-based and shared collector inline maps.

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Provides a high-availability solution, Gigamon Resiliency for Inline Protections (GRIP).