How Much Traffic Typically Crosses Your Network - McAfee M-1250 - Network Security Platform Deployment Manual

McAfee® Network Security Platform 6.0
Figure 2: Tap Monitoring of Active-Passive Links

How much traffic typically crosses your network?

Bandwidth and traffic flow are crucial to running a successful enterprise network.
Bandwidth requirements will vary in an enterprise network, as different applications and
business functions have different needs. Bandwidth utilization on the network segments
that you need to monitor will determine what type of Sensor will work best for you. Network
Security Platform offers multiple Sensors providing different bandwidths:
Sensor bandwidth
I-1200
I-1400
I-2700
I-3000
I-4000
I-4010
Sensor Aggregate Performance
100Mbps
200Mbps
600Mbps
1Gbps
2Gbps
2Gbps
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