recently i was asked to implement a solution to mirror a massive amount of traffic (2-8Gbps of sustained traffic) to several different locations for further analysis.
after comparing gigamon, netoptics, and network critical, i opted for netoptics to fill the roll (because of time i could not do a proof of concept, so the evaluation through reading specs, talking to a few techs, and some googling).
i have spent time over the last few weeks configuring the netoptics and thought it would be worth sharing my experience for someone else’s benefit.
