Description
NEOXPacketShark SSL Visibility & Traffic Management Platform
The NEOXPacketShark series is a high-performance, modular SSL/TLS visibility and traffic management platform designed to enhance security infrastructure by providing deep visibility into encrypted network traffic. It enables organizations to optimize existing security investments by delivering centralized SSL decryption and encryption, ensuring security tools can inspect traffic without blind spots across modern encrypted environments.
PacketShark supports policy-based traffic management, allowing precise control over how encrypted and decrypted traffic flows across the security stack. It integrates seamlessly into existing enterprise and service provider architectures, enabling scalable deployment without disrupting operational workflows. Providing full TLS/SSL traffic visibility significantly improves threat detection, analysis, and enforcement across security ecosystems.
Built for scalability, the PacketShark platform features a modular architecture with NMC expansion modules, allowing organizations to increase port density and adapt to growing network demands. These modules can also include integrated bypass functionality, providing full control over traffic flow and ensuring high availability even during maintenance or device failures.
For enhanced scalability and distributed security architectures, PacketShark integrates seamlessly with NEOXPacketHawk Inline-Bypass Switches and NEOXPacketLion Network Packet Brokers, enabling organizations to design highly flexible, multi-layered security infrastructures with near-unlimited expansion potential.
Key Features
- Full TLS/SSL encryption and decryption visibility for security tools
- Centralized traffic inspection and policy-based traffic management
- Modular architecture with scalable NMC port expansion support
- Integrated bypass options for high availability and network resilience
- Seamless integration with PacketHawk and PacketLion ecosystems
- Optimized performance for modern encrypted network environments
- Support for large-scale enterprise and service provider deployments
Performance Variants
The PacketShark series includes multiple performance tiers designed for different network environments:
- NX-PS-DC-1XL: up to 50 Gbit/s / 25 Gbit/s throughput
- NX-PS-DC-1L: up to 25 Gbit/s / 13 Gbit/s throughput
- NX-PS-DC-1M: up to 15 Gbit/s / 7 Gbit/s throughput
- NX-PS-DC-1XS: up to 10 Gbit/s / 2 Gbit/s throughput
The NEOXPacketShark platform delivers scalable SSL visibility, enabling organizations to strengthen cybersecurity, improve threat detection, and maintain complete control over encrypted network traffic across evolving infrastructures.