iLink Aggregator II

Cost Effective Link and Tap Aggregation for 10/100/1000 Mbps Links

Keysight’s iLink Aggregators are cost effective solutions for the tapping and aggregating of traffic to feed to network monitoring or cyber security tools. They come in two models. The first, LA2-INLN-T, consists of 8 inline copper taps (2 ports per tap) and four SFP+ monitor ports. With this model the inline taps have a “fail to wire” capability that protects traffic flow. The second model, LA2-SPAN-T, has 16 copper input ports and four SFP+ monitor ports. This is designed to be fed from either upstream copper taps or SPAN ports.

The copper ports operate are tri-speed and operate at 10/100/1000 Mbps. The SFP+ monitor ports can operate at either 1G or 10Gbps through the use of appropriate transceivers and support both copper and optical media.

The LA2-SPAN-T model provides Any-to-Any switching and aggregation allowing traffic from multiple input ports to be fed to either a single monitor port or, through replication, to either 2, 3 or 4 monitor ports.  The LA2-INLN-T model provides Any-to-Any only on the SFP+ ports.  The Tap ports can be configured to replicate and send the received traffic to one or more SFP+ ports.

Highlights

• Cost effective tap aggregator designed to combine traffic from multiple taps (either internal or external) to tools

• Supports low-medium speeds that are often not supported by high performance network packet brokers

• Inbuilt taps have ‘fail to wire’ capability

• Tap up to 8 copper links (2 ports per link) or

• Aggregate up to 16 external copper taps or SPAN ports

• Two units can be fitted in one 19 inch 1U space using the optional rack mount kit

• Monitor port of one unit can be connected to another unit’s monitor port to ‘cascade’ two units together and so providing additional aggregation

Key Features

• Aggregation/Regeneration – Combine multiple network links or channels into one stream or send copies to multiple tools to share data sources

• Management via simple to use CLI (via SSH/IP or serial port)

• Authentication via Radius and TACACS+

• Alert notifications via SNMP, SYSLOG or email

• Time synchronization of logs via NTP

• Manufacturing Location – USA. Fully TAA compliant

Specifications

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