Network Traffic Brokering & Packet Services
Tool Aggregation, Packet Processing, Packet & Flow Data Services
How NEOX Supports IT & OT Network & Security Teams
NEOX supports IT and OT network and security teams by delivering advanced network packet brokering capabilities that provide centralized, intelligent access to network traffic across distributed environments. By aggregating TAP, vTAP, and SPAN traffic from multiple sources—including data center, campus, cloud, industrial, and critical infrastructure networks—NEOX ensures that monitoring, security, and analytics tools receive the right data at the right time without packet loss. Through features such as traffic filtering, deduplication, load balancing, and replication, NEOX optimizes tool performance and reduces unnecessary processing overhead, enabling teams to operate more efficiently. This intelligent traffic distribution improves visibility across both IT and OT environments, helping organizations detect threats faster, troubleshoot network and application performance issues, and maintain operational continuity.
NEOX packet brokering solutions support seamless integration with a wide range of network performance monitoring (NPM), network detection and response (NDR), and intrusion detection systems (IDS) platforms, ensuring consistent and reliable data delivery for analysis and response. With scalable architectures and high-throughput performance, NEOX enables organizations to adapt to increasing traffic volumes and evolving network demands without compromising visibility or control. By providing granular traffic control and end-to-end visibility, NEOX empowers IT and OT teams to enhance security posture, improve mean-time-to-detection (MTTD) and mean-time-to-resolution (MTTR), support compliance initiatives, and maintain resilient, high-performance network operations across enterprise, service provider, and critical infrastructure environments.
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CONSOLIDATED REAL-TIME NETWORK VISIBILITY
Real-Time Network Intelligence to the Right Tools
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Full Network Transparency
- Encrypted traffic visibility
- Up to 400G DPI
- Up to 50Gbps TLS/SSL
- 100% network data
- No impairment to data
- No traffic blind spots
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Complete Traffic Control
- FPGA-based
- NanoSec timestamping
- Deduplication
- Packet slicing
- Header stripping
- 5-tuple support
03.
Fool-Proof Network Security
- TLS/SSL control
- URL filtering
- Forward/Reverse proxy
- Cert distribution
- Bypass function
- Compliance & privacy
Traffic Consolidation, Processing, and Delivery
Today’s mobile, edge, data center, and cloud networks are becoming more application-intensive under rapid digital transformation and modernization of business models, and lifestyle changes. This is resulting in a many-fold increase in east-west and north-south network traffic. Furthermore, virtualization and hybrid-cloud-oriented distributed environments are making it extremely complex to monitor the network traffic for observability and security purposes. Scattered network traffic and blind spots result in security vulnerabilities and elevated business risk.
NEOX Network Packet Brokers streamline the tasks of IT NetOps and SecOps teams by (a) Consolidating network traffic, (b) Centralizing control of network monitoring policies, and (c) Ensuring reliable and uninterrupted delivery of network data to performance monitoring tools and security tools. This leads to 100% network observability, enhanced network visibility, and significantly improved security. By acting as a traffic aggregation solution, NEOX Packet Brokers empower teams to achieve comprehensive network monitoring and robust threat detection across their infrastructure.
Learn more about how network packet brokers work in modern hybrid and cloud environments.
Uninterrupted Traffic for Suricata and Network Detection and Response
Traditional signature-based security tools (IDS, IPS, SIEM, NGFW, WAF) do their job well but cannot catch all kinds of attacks. Modern Network Detection and Response (NDR) tools monitor network activity in real-time to spot and deter potential threats. For this, NDR tools need a continuous, reliable, and uninterrupted streaming of network packet data in real time. NEOX Network Packet Brokers deliver this critical platform for Network Detection and Response (NDR), enabling advanced threat detection, real-time network analysis, and proactive security response. By serving as a centralized traffic aggregation solution, NEOX ensures comprehensive network visibility and enhanced monitoring capabilities, making it an essential tool for modern cybersecurity strategies and network operations. They play the same role for open-source high-performance Suricata-based IDS, IPS, and Network Security Monitoring (NSM) tools that perform real-time monitoring and analysis of network traffic to detect and prevent security threats, including attacks, intrusions, and vulnerabilities.
Discover the key benefits of using a packet broker for security operations and network monitoring.
High-Performance Packet Service Chaining
NEOX Network Packet Brokers serve multiple critical roles: (a) as a data consolidation device to centrally process the network traffic collected from strategic points across the network, (b) as a speed-matching gateway that bridges the main network and the monitoring tools, ensuring seamless data flow, and (c) as a service chaining and delivery mechanism to process network packets and modify them into the desired format for efficient delivery.
If you would like a deeper technical explanation of how network packet brokers work in traffic aggregation, filtering, and optimization, read our detailed guide.
By acting as a traffic aggregation solution, packet processing platform, and network optimization tool, NEOX enhances network visibility, monitoring efficiency, and data delivery precision, making it indispensable for network operations and security teams.
NEOX Packet Brokers perform all services at wire speeds up to 400Gbps per port, even when all services are turned on, and do not cause packet drop due to its FPGA-based non-blocking advanced architecture. They do not require costly “smart module” upgrades or port-density tradeoffs for performance gain.
The result is a more streamlined data flow at a much lower cost-per-megabit and additional savings by offloading expensive tools and prolonging investments.
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FAQS
What is a network packet broker?
A network packet broker (NPB) is a network visibility device that collects, filters, aggregates, replicates, and distributes network traffic to monitoring and security tools. It acts as an intelligent traffic distribution layer between network infrastructure and monitoring systems, ensuring tools receive only relevant traffic for analysis. Packet brokers help improve network visibility, optimize tool performance, and reduce unnecessary processing loads.
What is the difference between a packet broker and a network TAP?
A network TAP provides direct access to network traffic by creating copies of packets flowing through the network without interrupting production traffic. A packet broker, on the other hand, processes and optimizes that traffic using filtering, deduplication, aggregation, load balancing, and packet manipulation before sending it to monitoring tools.
In simple terms:
Network TAP = Traffic Access
Packet Broker = Traffic Intelligence and Distribution
Organizations commonly deploy both together for complete network visibility.
How does a packet broker improve security tool performance?
What is deduplication in a packet broker?
Deduplication in a packet broker is the process of identifying and removing duplicate packets before forwarding traffic to monitoring and security tools. Duplicate packets commonly occur when multiple monitoring points capture identical traffic.
Can a packet broker work in OT/ICS environments?
Yes, packet brokers are widely used in OT and ICS environments to provide secure network visibility without interfering with operational systems. They can aggregate traffic from industrial networks, filter critical protocols, and distribute traffic to monitoring and cybersecurity tools.