Plug-and-Play Network Monitoring

A single solution to capture network traffic, application activity and VoIP calls

appTap, AA-NPM, Application Aware Network Performance MonitoringWelcome to the innovative appTap™—the industry’s first integrated solution to combine network tapping capabilities with network and application monitoring. This new approach fulfills a need that until now had gone unmet—the challenge of affordably monitoring remote sites with data throughput up to 100Mbps. Now, without investing in costly on-site engineers, you can capture and analyze network traffic and application activity, plus monitor VoIP calls. You can also carry out capacity planning and trend analysis to improve business continuity.

Network Top Talkers

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Cost-Effective, Simplified Access

Geographically distributed offices need to monitor network and application integrity just as do larger centralized offices, but until now, this has mandated hiring on-site engineers to make sure of sustained functionality. Now, appTap makes that investment unnecessary. Designed specifically for satellite office needs, appTap enables easy access to network traffic data at line rate to monitor and manage network, application, and session performance.

Simple to Install and Use

For network professionals tasked with monitoring and ensuring remote network availability and application performance, the plug-and-play appTap makes life instantly easier. If you’re dealing with slow or underperforming applications or issues such as link errors, oversubscribed resources, misconfigured DNS or proxy servers, and choppy VOIP connections, appTap streamlines diagnosis and resolution.

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Network, Application and Session Monitoring Options

Flexibility is one of appTap’s major advantages. Offices can tailor appTap’s functions precisely to their monitoring needs.

  • Network Monitoring captures network traffic and generates NetFlow records that can be exported to third-party flow analysis and visualization solutions.
  • Application Monitoring adds flow monitoring and a deeper level of analysis and reporting, breaking down network use by layer, protocol and application.
  • Session Monitoring encompasses VOIP support and call detail, web access analysis and instant messaging monitoring. network

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Total Visibility Adds Value from the Moment of Connection

appTap offers continuous, 100 percent visibility of network traffic and application—starting immediately, without complex, intrusive configuring or training. Your team can get up and running immediately for proactive management tasks, with an instant view of key performance indicators such as network volume, Top Talkers and network use by application. appTap also stores captured data for deferred analysis.

appTap provides deep visibility into application activity such as VOIP calls, Web 2.0 applications and instant messaging as well as detailed breakdown of layer, protocol, and application use, session statistics, data stream information, and identifying of underlying applications. A combination of tap ports and broad monitoring capabilities makes appTap the ideal solution for monitoring smaller networks and remote sites.

Doing Our Part

Net Optics is dedicated to ensuring user safety and developing products that are increasingly environment friendly. appTap adheres to UL and CE safety certifications: FCC, VCCI, and C-Tick EMC certifications; and RoHS and WEEE environmental certifications

appTap - Diagram, AA-NPM, Application Aware Network Performance Monitoring

Connectors
Network Ports: 2 RJ45 10/100/1000 Mbps
Monitor Ports: 2 RJ45 10/100/1000 Mbps
Capture Port: 1 RJ45 10/100/1000 Mbps
Management Port: 1 RJ45 10/100/1000 Mbps
Serial console port: RS-232
Power: 2 (redundant) DC barrel jacks
Cabling: 22-24 AWG unshielded twisted pair cable CAT5e or better recommended
Expansion: 2 USB ports
Indicators
1 2x20 character LCD
6 Link LEDs with speed indication
6 Activity LEDs
2 Power LEDs
1 Disk activity LED
Throughput Specifications
Connections with speed up to 120Mbps.
Network Connectivity
appTap must be accessible via HTTP or HTTPS (depending on the configuration) to use the application interface. TCP port 80 must be available between the appTap appliance and web clients for HTTP access. TCP port 443 must be available between the appTap appliance and web clients for HTTPS access.
Web Browser
Adobe Flash Plug-In 9 or later
Internet Explorer 7 or later
Firefox 5 or later
Google Chrome 5 or later
Safari 5 or later
Operating
Operating Temperature: 0°C to 40°C
Storage Temperature: -10°C to 70°C
Relative Humidity: 10% min, 95% max, non-condensing
Mechanical
Dimensions: 1.72” high x 19” wide x 12.75” deep
Mounting: 19” inch rack mount
Certifications
Safety: UL, CE EMC: FCC, VCCI, C-Tick
Environmental: RoHS, WEEE
Protocol: Fully IEEE 802.3 compliant

Passive, Secure Technology

 

Warranty

 

Ease of Use

   
  • Continuous and ad-hoc packet capture. Capture headers and content using various filters.
  • Reveal network usage, latency and bandwidth consumption. Provides both real-time and historical perspectives.
  • VoIP SIP/RTP correlation and individual VoIP call detail.
  • Monitor multiple networks, sub-nets, VLANs and devices.
  • Generate and export NetFlow records from raw packet data.
  • View network performance over time and perform trend analysis.
   
  • Early detection of, and response to, developing issues
  • Streamlined problem isolation and problem diagnosis
  • Decreased reliance on highly skilled engineers
  • Concurrent monitoring of multiple networks, sub-nets and VLANs from a single pane of glass
  • Problem avoidance by using capacity planning tools to provision sufficient network resources early on
  • The ability to monitor the network, applications, Web access, Instant Messaging and VoIP using a single solution
  • Extra monitoring ports for use with third party solutions
  • Very high ROI, very low TCO

 

appTap Description
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AT-100-N appTap Network Monitoring
AT-100-A appTap Application Monitoring
AT-100-S appTap Session Monitoring

 

appTap Offers Unique Flexibility in Monitoring Options
To meet changing demands, the flexible appTap offers three levels of monitoring:

Network Monitoring captures network data and interoperates with existing management platforms, providing NetFlow export capability back to third-party flow monitoring tools.

Application Monitoring adds analysis and report tools, breaking down network use by layer, protocol, and application.

Session Monitoring further expands functionality by adding VoIP support and call detail.

Features
Network
Monitoring
Application
Monitoring
Session
Monitoring
Network performance statistics + + +
Packet capture + + +
Packet, NetFlow export + + +
Flow bounce diagrams + + +
Access to historical data   + +
Multi-user support   + +
Multi-network support    + +
Application monitoring   + +
Flow analysis   + +
VoIP call reports, call details     +
Web access monitoring     +
IM monitoring     +