Failsafe in aggregation, regeneration and bypass TAPs

Failsafe in Aggregation, Regeneration and Bypass

If a Fiber TAP is aggregating the light signal, providing regeneration over multiple ports, or injecting heartbeats into the traffic, power will be required. While the splitter is still directly connecting the network ports together, the signal will need to traverse an optical switch and get processed before exiting through the monitor ports.

Monitoring Ports

Diagram 8. Fiber aggregation, regeneration and bypass mode network flow

If the TAP loses power, the monitor ports will cease forwarding traffic, but the network ports will continue to pass traffic as normal.