Network packet broker and monitoring observability nodes

Packet Broker (cVu®) observability nodes can be provisioned, managed, and observed using the cPacket Control Center centralized management and visualization platform and through the nodes’ own user interfaces for quick access.

Packet Broker nodes deliver exactly the right packet data to cPacket packet capture and analysis observability nodes for storing and analyzing data for the long term, as may be required for latency or TCP analysis, multi-hop service troubleshooting, security forensics for incident response, and compliance.

Here’s What Packet Broker Can Do For You:

Key Features:

Distributed processing architecture
Advanced packet brokering capabilities without performance degradation or bottlenecks
Cost-effective aggregation, network packet brokering, and microburst monitoring

With Packet Broker, You Can:

Enable full network observability while limiting tool sprawl
Reduce TCO with cutting-edge architecture and simple licensing
Aggregate network data from multiple optical TAPs, SPAN ports, and Remote SPAN ports within the datacenter

Advanced Packet Broker (cVu-NG)
Distributed Architecture

Enables fully featured smart
processing at line-rate (up to 100Gbps)

cPacket network packet brokers offer high-speed network monitoring and 10 or 400 Gbps connectivity, essential for efficient packet brokering and real-time traffic analysis at line-rate

Today’s high-speed networks present great opportunities and challenges for businesses facing constant change. High-speed networks permit organizations to succeed in rapidly changing markets. Organizations require zero downtime to move at warp speed. But those same high-speed networks also make it easier for trouble to hit businesses fast and hard in the form of security breaches and network outages.

Cutting-edge architecture and simple licensing lead to low total cost of ownership (TCO) for observability and security solutions. Furthermore, by offloading pre-processing to the packet broker, available security tool capacity effectively increases by up to 30%. cPacket's Packet Broker is used by the most demanding environments in financial services, healthcare and high-performance computing.

Deliver the right packets, all the time, to the performance and security tools that keep your network—and business—humming.

Unmatched Performance

With its distributed processing architecture, Packet Broker performs advanced packet brokering function at line-rate on every port up to 400 Gbps, and provides advanced features without performance degradation, unlike other solutions which are bottlenecked by shared processing for advanced features.

IT Consolidation

Packet Broker aggregates network data from multiple optical TAPs, SPAN ports and Remote SPAN ports within the data center, and deliver every packet to security and other tools, enabling full network observability. Packet Broker also limits tool sprawl by consolidating network traffic a central location.

Best-In-Class TCO

Packet Broker provides cost-effective aggregation, network packet brokering, and microburst monitoring. cPacket's NG/NGE Network Packet Broker series delivers high-performance advanced packet brokering and microburst monitoring.

Beating the Competition

cPacket's Packet Broker is unique because it performs advanced packet processing at line-rate, leveraging dedicated hardware based on proprietary ASICs and FPGAs behind every port. cPacket also offers a simple licensing model that unlocks all advanced features of our products, unlike our competitors, who charge extra fees for advanced capabilities in products with higher management complexity and lower performance.

Packet Broker Portfolio

Two product lines. Both scale on ports and speed.
Serve different functions. Work independently or together to serve your tools.

Advanced Packet Broker (cVu-NG)

The industry’s only distributed architecture platform, including an ASIC/FPGA behind every port, creating unmatchable advantages.

TapAgg Packet Broker (cVu-AG)

The industry’s best performing TapAgg solution with 400Gbps performance and 100% packet accountability.

Accessories: End to end solution or bring your own

TAPs

High-speed, high-density, passive TAPs
Fixed or Modular chassis
Flexible deployment options
Bring your own transceivers or use ours

Fiber Optics

Transceivers
Breakout or straight cables and boxes

Packet Brokers built for Enterprise Hybrid Clouds, with flexible deployment options and a common experience across physical and virtual appliances.

Advanced Agentless Multi-Cloud Packet Brokering

Packet Broker virtual packet brokering is 100% agentless, improving performance and reducing internal attack surface. Packet Broker instances are deployed as native cloud VMs, ensuring a highly-available, reliable platform. Agents degrade VM performance, increase cybersecurity attach surface and are difficult to manage, requiring frequent updates and upkeep.

Overcome CSP Mirroring Limitations

Packet Broker can reliably broker packets without the blind spots present in Cloud Service Provider (CSP) traffic mirroring solutions with superior packet acquisition capabilities. Native mirroring services are prone to dropped packets during periods of network congestion, available only on certain machine types, and have to be enabled on a per-instance basis.

Replicate Packets to Multiple NDR, XDR and
NPM Tools

Native CSP mirroring solutions are limited to one copy of a single packet, preventing users from replicating an individual packet to multiple downstream destinations. This can become problematic for large organizations and enterprise environments which present constantly evolving security, compliance and performance requirements.

Datasheets

Deliver packets to performance and security tools that keep your network - and business - humming

Today’s high-speed networks present great opportunities and challenges for businesses facing constant change. High-speed networks permit organizations to succeed in rapidly changing markets. Organizations require zero downtime to move at warp speed. But those same high-speed networks also make it easier for trouble to hit businesses fast and hard in the form of security breaches and network outages.

cPacket's network packet brokers are fundamental to robust network monitoring, security, and observability solutions. Network packet brokers distribute packets to tools that keep the business running smoothly, including network monitoring, observability, and security. Network packet brokers are the foundation of a packet data Observability solution to enable business continuity by facilitating reliability and security.

Packet Broker (cVu®) Network Packet Broker & Monitoring Observability Nodes

Centralized management data visualization, across on-premise, virtual and cloud networks in a single point of command and control.

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Better Together: cPacket’s Product Portfolio for Packet Level Network and Security Oversight

cPacket's Packet Broker observability nodes can be provisioned, managed, and observed using the cPacket Control Center centralized management and visualization platform and through the nodes’ own user interfaces for quick access.

Packet Broker nodes deliver exactly the right packet data to cPacket packet capture and analysis observability nodes for storing and analyzing data for the long term, as may be required for latency or TCP analysis, multi-hop service troubleshooting, security forensics for incident response, and compliance.

Packet Capture

Capture at line rate (up to 200Gbps) with industry leading retrieval times.

Control Center

Get best-in-class observability across on-prem and cloud environments.

Cloud Suite

Fully featured, agentless cloud packet broker, capture, analytics.

AI Observability

From comprehensive packet data to actionable insights.

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