This white paper provides an overview of physical and virtual network tapping and network packet broker network visibility solutions, their role in telecom networks and how they have evolved from 2G through to 5G Stand Alone network environments.

It describes how network visibility solutions have evolved as telecom networks have changed from physical networks to virtualized 4G and 5G Non-Standalone, and cloudified 5G Standalone networks, and the considerations needed to ensure the successful network performance, service assurance, security and analytics monitoring of each environment.