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Network TAP and Packet Broker Solutions (a vCloud Tech Partnership)


vCloud Tech is proud to be partners with Network Critical who offer Intelligent Hybrid Network TAP and Packet Broker solutions that give the organization’s total visibility and greater network visibility. Network Critical provides modular network TAP devices and network packet brokers solutions that cover the 1/10/25/40/50/100/200/400G traffic speed spectrum and ensure that our customers have continuous network visibility. Network Critical’s products are non-intrusive and successfully eliminate any concerns of downtime and our unique scale-out capabilities enable simple, cost-effective expansion, as network and port density requirements grow.


Network Critical was found in 1997 by Alastair Hartrup in the US and has taken the computer networking industry by storm since its inception and also has found a lot of success globally. Network Critical offices can be found all over America, England, and the Netherlands. They believe in offering only the best and highest quality solutions and since have earned international respect from major companies for providing them with traffic visibility hybrid systems for carriers, enterprises, and government networks. Network Critical products and solutions allow organizations, big or small, to safely connect monitoring, security, and performance tools.


Network Critical offers a complete line of TAP network visibility solutions that are different from traditional network tapping tools. Network Critical products intelligently make a copy of any organization’s network’s traffic, by isolating it from the live network and can collect all traffic passing through the network without introducing latency issues. This successfully reduces the risk of network downtime, while ensuring the network is fully visible. The result is that all traffic is seen without affecting the flow of server traffic along with the live network.


The Network Critical has impressive team engineers and developers all around the globe and they continue to work on the vision of greater network visibility for the future. With new network architectures and infrastructures like Software Defined Networks (SDN), Network Function Virtualization (NFV), and others requiring new visibility strategies and technologies, Network Critical is on top of this issue with intelligent hybrid network tap and packet broker solutions. As more and more carriers prepare for the 4G to 5G transition and enterprise networks grapple with BYOD, information security, and far-flung cloud architectures, Network Critical will be there with state of the art network visibility solutions. Network Critical is committed to continuing its legacy by providing innovative, reliable, and cost-effective visibility solutions for networks today and into the future.


vCloud Tech and Network Critical have been very proactive in our partnership. Not just from a sales and opportunity perspective but also with marketing and lead generation efforts. Network Critical finds vCloud Tech to be an active partner to work with and openly communicate. We look forward to many years of success and engagement with the Network Critical’s team.


We would like to give a special shoutout to Brent Barrs – Director of Sales Company at Network Critical for helping us with some of the key insights for the post. He has been with Network Critical for 2+ years and in the industry for 25+ years. You can find him on LinkedIn. Also, for more information about Network Critical and their entire Network TAP and Packet Broker Solutions line, you can visit this website https://www.networkcritical.com/.

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