A Network Packet Broker aggregates Network TAPs to centralize and process network traffic, providing visibility and control for IT NetOps and SecOps. This ensures that the right traffic is directed to the appropriate monitoring tools for effective observability and security. However, some well-known Packet Brokers face reliability issues, such as performance degradation and packet loss, due to limitations in their internal centralized architecture. Watch this video to learn:
- As more TAPs are added and network traffic flows through the Packet Broker, its centralized processing resources are placed under greater strain. When more TAPs are added or advanced features are turned on, its centralized processing module can become overloaded, resulting in packet drops and blind spots for monitoring tools—leaving certain traffic undetected.
- This can have serious consequences, particularly if the missed packets contain critical information needed to identify or prevent a potential attack. To address this, businesses often face the costly option of upgrades by purchasing additional processing modules and software licenses.
- With NEOX Network Packet Brokers, packet drop is never a concern. NEOX’s high-performance, non-blocking design effortlessly handles increasing traffic loads – ensuring flawless performance and security. With NEOX, you’ll experience uninterrupted visibility, enhanced security, and seamless business continuity. You won’t have to worry about missing any packets—and your monitoring tools will always have 100% visibility, 100% of the time.
- The NEOX PacketLion and PacketWolf Series Packet Brokers and Packet Processors offer FPGA-based, high-speed, low-latency packet service-chaining of up to 400 Gigabits-per-Second. These solutions include advanced features such as precise timestamping, filtering, deduplication, slicing, header-stripping, protocol-specific encapsulation and decapsulation, regular expression matching, data masking, and IPFIX & NetFlow export. Meanwhile, the NEOX PacketTiger and PacketTiger Virtual Packet Brokers provide a more economical, basic packet-brokering solution for multi-cloud environments.
