Company Profile

Established in 1997 by Alastair Hartrup, Network Critical has grown to become the market leading designer and manufacturer of network access solutions for the security and network management marketplace, offering customers flexible deployment options to maximise their solution investment.

Our products are of the highest quality, designed by the best engineers in the business, and as a result Network Critical has a reputation for leading the industry with technological advances in the TAP (test access point) marketplace.  Worldwide “firsts” include the 100% guaranteed 'zero packet loss' TAP, the 4x4 port 1U rack mount Critical TAP, the multi-port Fiber TAP and the introduction of the Critical In-line TAP.  More recently, we've introduced the powerful CriticalConnex™ CC3100 TAP, which allows a gigabit network tool to passively monitor four 10/100 network links - even at maximum utilisation of all links, it won't drop a single packet.

Specialising in the security marketplace, and with sales offices in the UK and USA, Network Critical supports its customer base with a world-wide network of reputable and responsible channel partners. These carefully selected “team members” provide turnkey solutions covering the complete range of high-quality Critical TAPs to end clients in the Telecomm, Energy, Banking and Finance, Transport, Government, Pharmaceutical, Healthcare, Engineering and Media industries.

Customer requests for “deployment” solutions can be wide and varied, depending upon their chosen application, be it IDS, IPS, network monitoring (analysers & probes), VoIP or QoS. Network Critical prides itself on having built up such a comprehensive range of TAP products that, no matter what the end-user requirements, it feels that it has the flexibility to offer a TAP solution to suit “all scenarios.”

At Network Critical, we try to ensure that every aspect of doing business with us is as seamless as possible.  We offer our channel partners and their customers a range of pre- and post-sales services which enables quick, efficient and dependable product selection; this, in turn, allows for the timely deployment of the overall security or monitoring solution.

Our ethos is to "keep it simple, get it right". We don't believe in trying to make our business more complicated than it needs to be.  Our people, like our products, are straightforward, honest and reliable.  They are driven by customer satisfaction and are proud of our standing in the market as the “channel-friendly company.”