Agile 1-100G Virtual Packet Services & Network Packet Brokering
Flexible Network Visibility with Enterprise-Grade Packet Processing
Per-Instance Performance | Rich Feature Set | Deep Packet Services
Agility
Enable rapid deployment of network visibility across hybrid and multi-cloud environments with a flexible, software-based packet broker. PacketTiger Virtual adapts quickly to changing workloads and architectures, allowing teams to scale visibility without hardware constraints or complex infrastructure changes.
Visibility
Provide unified visibility across virtual, cloud, and hybrid infrastructures by centralizing East-West and North-South traffic flows. PacketTiger Virtual ensures monitoring and security tools receive consistent, high-quality packet data, enabling better threat detection, performance monitoring, and operational insight.
Services
Enhance traffic intelligence with advanced virtual packet services, including filtering, slicing, deduplication, tunnel processing, and metadata export. PacketTiger Virtual transforms raw packet data into optimized, actionable insights while improving tool efficiency and supporting modern analytics and security workflows.
PacketTigerVirtual Network Packet Broker
The PacketTiger Virtual is a powerful software-based Virtual Packet Broker engineered for today’s dynamic cloud-native, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments. Designed for comprehensive traffic aggregation and intelligent filtering from multiple vTAPs, it provides centralized visibility into both East-West and North-South traffic, enabling deep observability across VMware, Kubernetes, AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud infrastructures. This lightweight yet feature-rich solution ensures uniform transparency between virtual and physical networks, seamlessly integrating with on-premise devices through GRE or VXLAN tunneling for centralized monitoring and security workflows.
The Virtual model supports stateful filtering, reducing unnecessary data forwarding to optimize performance and lower monitoring costs. It features load balancing, IMSI filtering, and GTP correlation and inner IP-based distribution, making it an ideal choice for mobile core and 5G environments. Deployable as a Debian package or Docker image, it enables fast and flexible rollout across diverse environments like ESXi, OpenStack, and containers.
With its ability to connect to both physical and virtual NICs, it brings consistent visibility to even the most distributed architectures. The system supports a range of management interfaces, including CLI, SSH, SNMP v2/v3, Web UI, NetCONF, and REST API, and is centrally orchestrated through NEOXPacketDirector and administered via NEOX Device Manager, ensuring cohesive policy control and operational simplicity.
Whether deployed in virtual-only setups or as part of a larger hybrid infrastructure, the PacketTiger Virtual delivers the agility, scalability, and traffic intelligence needed for modern observability platforms. It empowers organizations to monitor encrypted and complex traffic, optimize tool usage, and enhance network security posture without compromising performance or coverage.
- Extends network visibility into virtual, cloud, and hybrid environments without requiring physical appliances
- Enables agile deployment across VMware, Kubernetes, and public cloud platforms, adapting quickly to changing workloads
- Delivers consistent, high-quality traffic to monitoring and security tools across distributed infrastructures
- Reduces infrastructure complexity and cost by consolidating packet brokering into a software-based solution
- Improves security and observability with deep visibility into East-West and North-South traffic flows
- Optimizes tool performance by filtering and processing traffic before delivery
- Supports scalable, elastic visibility aligned with dynamic cloud environments
- Accelerates troubleshooting and incident response with real-time access to relevant traffic data
- Enhances data efficiency and compliance through intelligent traffic control and processing
- Integrates seamlessly with modern analytics, monitoring, and security ecosystems
- Integration with physical and virtual NICs across environments including ESXi, OpenStack, and container platforms, providing uniform network transparency and visibility across virtual and physical infrastructures
- Aggregation, replication, and redirection of traffic to monitoring tools in physical and virtual environments, enabling balanced use of tools during migration and hybrid deployments
- Advanced traffic processing including filtering (5-tuple), user-defined filters with AND/OR/NOT logic, packet slicing, deduplication, data masking, header stripping and editing (MPLS, VLAN, VXLAN, GRE, GTP, L2TP, Geneve), and port labeling
- Deep packet inspection with Layer-7 and regex-based filtering, session tracking, de-fragmentation, capture and replay, and metadata extraction to Syslog and Kafka
- Tunnel awareness and processing including GTP correlation, IMSI filtering, inner tunnel filtering (GTP, VXLAN, L2TP), inner IP load balancing, and GRE/NVGRE tunneling for inter-site connectivity
- Intelligent traffic distribution with weighted load balancing, sampling, and rate capping to optimize performance of monitoring and security tools
- Flow and telemetry generation via IPFIX/NetFlow and metadata export for analytics and observability platforms
- Comprehensive management and orchestration via Web UI, CLI, SSH, SNMP v2/v3, NETCONF, REST API, and centralized control through NEOX Device Manager
| PACKETTIGER VIRTUAL – OPTIONS | |
|---|---|
| SKU | Description |
| NX-PBPT-L1 | Extension of the subscription licence by 1 CPU core |
| NX-PBPT-L5 | Extension of the subscription licence by 5 CPU cores |
| NX-PBPT-L10 | Extension of the subscription licence by 10 CPU cores |
| NX-PBPT-VM | Software incl. 1 year maintenance & support, subscription licence includes the use of 2 CPU cores |
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SERVICE & SUPPORT
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All NEOXPacketTiger Virtual Network Packet Brokers come with NEOX SILVER Support and can be upgraded to GOLD Support for advanced replacement in case of a hardware failure.