Packet Capture

Packet capture and analytics observability nodes

Packet Capture (cStor®) is available as physical and virtual appliance. Packet Capture combines compute, storage and networking in a single, compact device, capturing and analyzing every packet. The appliance delivers high-fidelity metrics for network throughput, capacity, latency and errors.

Here’s What Packet Capture Can Do For You:

Key Features:

  • Capture raw packets at data rates of up to 200Gbps, enriched with metadata, and stored to persistent storage extensible to >2PB
  • Industry’s fastest indexing, querying and retrieval times, when every second counts
  • Simultaneous reading and writing give you immediate access to captured packets
  • Select outputs from charts, tables or raw PCAP, with error and event overlays, including with onboard Wireshark
  • Configure Syslog and SNMP alerts on frame errors, frame drops, microbursts, and link statistics with alert conditions and reporting

With Packet Capture, You Can:

  • Use captured network traffic as the source of truth for troubleshooting, performance management, security, and regulatory compliance
  • Replay and forensically analyze historical data for cybersecurity and incident response
  • Reduce mean-time-to-resolution for stateful (TCP) and real-time (UDP/RTP) applications, network performance, and user-experience problems
  • Analyze financial market data feeds and latency

Packet Capture provides 288 TB to 2 petabytes of high-speed storage and from 10 to 200 Gbps of lossless packet capture

Today’s large enterprises require zero downtime, continuous change and unceasing vigilance against risks. To deliver on those requirements, enterprises need an observability solution built on reliable and accurate packet data. Those solutions must operate at line -rate, anywhere and continuously.

Continuously evolving multi/hybrid-cloud networks increase pressure on IT teams to keep infrastructure reliable and secure. Each packet zooms by in just 6.7 nanoseconds at 100 Gbps—a bare instant for networking tools to capture, analyze, and index packets.

That’s where cPacket's Packet Capture can help, by capturing and analyzing every packet as it crosses the network at line-rate. Packet Capture's rapid capture-to-disk (CTD) enables NetOps and SecOps to deliver business continuity, better operational efficiency, and more robust security by monitoring network reliability and security in real-time, while also looking backward to investigate incidents that happened in the past.  

Improved business continuity, better operational efficiency, and more robust security

Unmatched Performance

cPacket's packet capture and analytics performance is a key differentiation compared to the competition. Packet Capture's high CTD rate enables it to write packets to storage as fast as they come over the network, while at the same time indexing for fast retrieval and analytics.

Lossless Capture at Line-rate

Packet Capture provides up to 2 petabytes of high-speed storage and 10 to 200 Gbps lossless packet capture. The appliance offers onboard storage and optional external cPacket Extensible Storage (CES) units for expandability and to best use rack space in expensive data center real estate.

Lowest TCO Per Rack Unit

A range of hardware and virtual appliances means Packet Capture can be cost-effectively deployed in any network, including hybrid on-premises and cloud networking. Packet Capture can be deployed as a cPacket appliance, on existing industry-standard servers, or in the cloud.

Beating the Competition

cPacket's Packet Capture stands out from competitive products by combining line-rate, lossless capture and analytics at up to 200Gbps with industry leading storage densities, resulting in the smallest form factor and lowest power consumption available. Conventional network monitoring tools such as NetFlow sample the network, but can not reconstruct exact flows. Packet Broker provides all the data for deeper analysis of network and security problems.

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

Continuous and On-Demand Cloud & Virtual Packet Capture

Virtual Packet Capture delivers high-performance continuous and on-demand packet capture at up to 200Gbps when leveraging many cloud or virtual instances. Storage can also elastically scale by adding additional native cloud provider disk volumes.

Cloud Analytics Generation

Virtual Packet Capture generates real time network analytics for troubleshooting scenarios and faster incident response including realtime analytics which enable visibility into TCP sessions as well as valuable protocol and application-based insights which enables users to peer into a comprehensive set of KPIs which include UDP, latency, hop-to-hop and middlebox characterization capabilities.

Visualize Insights from All Packet Capture Instances

cPacket's Control Center can aggregate network analytics collected from physical, public cloud and virtual Packet Capture instances enabling users to observe, analyze, manage, and query dozens of Packet Capture instances from a single endpoint.

Datasheets

Capture and analyze network packet data at line-rates.

Today’s large enterprises require zero downtime, continuous change, and unceasing vigilance against risks. To deliver on those requirements, enterprises need an observability solution built on reliable and accurate packet data. Those solutions must operate at line-rate, anywhere, and at any time.

Fast multi/hybrid-cloud networks increase pressure on IT teams to keep infrastructure reliable and secure. Each packet zooms by in just 6.7 nanoseconds at 100 Gbps—a bare instant for networking tools to analyze, index, and store packets.

That’s where cPacket's Packet Capture can help by capturing and analyzing every packet as it crosses the network at line-rate. Packet Capture's rapid capture-to-disk (CTD) enables network operations (NetOps) and security operations (SecOps) teams to monitor network reliability and security in real time while also looking backward to investigate incidents that happened in the past.

Packet Capture (cStor®) Packet Capture & Analysis Observability Nodes

Packet Capture helps NetOps and SecOps teams deliver business continuity, better operational efficiency, and more robust security.

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

cPacket's packet capture and analytics appliances are integral to the cPacket Networks Intelligent Observability Platform. Packet Capture can function with third-party packet brokers or as a part of cPacket’s suite of products. cPacket's advanced Packet Broker reliably forwards complete data streams to the relevant Packet Capture device, and the Control Center management solution provides a single point of command and control for virtualization and detailed analysis.

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