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Flexible deployment options

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Trellix Intrusion Prevention System offers unprecedented flexibility in Sensor deployment. Sensors can be deployed in a variety of topologies and network security applications, providing industry-leading flexibility and scalability. Most PC-based IDS Sensors on the market today can monitor only one network segment at a time, and only via the SPAN port on a switch. Thus, to monitor a switched environment with multiple segments and multiple switches deployed in a High Availability environment, you would need multiple Sensors.