Netoptics

NetOptics is a network visibility and monitoring vendor that provides hardware and software tools for tapping, aggregating, and distributing production traffic to security and performance monitoring systems.

• Network visibility appliances for tapping and mirroring live traffic
• Aggregation and broker platforms for distributing packets to monitoring and security tools (observability / network operations)
• Bypass and failover hardware for inline security and inspection devices (network security)
• Monitoring solutions designed for data centers, enterprise networks, and service provider environments
• Tools and architectures focused on out-of-band monitoring, packet-level visibility, and traffic optimization

More About Netoptics

NetOptics focuses on network visibility and traffic access infrastructure that sits between production networks and the monitoring and security tools that observe them.

The company’s portfolio centers on hardware taps, aggregation switches, and network packet brokers (observability / network operations) that copy, filter, and distribute traffic from switches, routers, and firewalls to downstream analysis platforms such as intrusion detection, application performance monitoring, or forensics tools.

In enterprise environments, NetOptics offerings are typically deployed in data centers, core network segments, and Wide Area Network (WAN) edge locations where organizations require access to packet streams without altering switch or router configurations.

Optical and copper network taps operate at Layer 1, providing passive access to links so that monitoring devices can receive a copy of all traffic, which supports analysis of protocols such as Ethernet, IP, and Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) without introducing additional points of failure in the forwarding path.

Aggregation and broker appliances (observability / network operations) ingest traffic from multiple taps or switch Switched Port Analyzer (SPAN) ports, apply filters, load balancing, packet slicing, and de-duplication, and then send the resulting streams to various tools that may expect specific VLANs, IP ranges, or application flows.

For inline security architectures, NetOptics provides bypass and failover devices (network security) that System Integration Testing (SIT) in front of intrusion prevention systems, next-generation firewalls, or other inspection platforms.

These devices are designed to maintain link continuity if an inline tool loses power or is taken out of service, while also steering traffic through active devices for inspection, which supports availability goals in security-sensitive deployments.

NetOptics equipment is typically integrated into Network Operations Center (NOC) and Security Operations (SecOps) center workflows, where packet-level visibility supports troubleshooting, compliance monitoring, and incident response.

From a marketplace taxonomy perspective, NetOptics aligns with network visibility, packet brokers, traffic aggregation, and bypass infrastructure categories rather than endpoint security or application-layer monitoring platforms.

Its offerings are used alongside, rather than in place of, security analytics, Application Performance Management (APM), and Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) tools, acting as the traffic access layer that feeds packets and flow data into those systems.