Network packet brokers
Network packet brokers (NPBs) enable telecom operators to access and analyze traffic across a network by acting as ‘brokers’ of network traffic. NPBs collect traffic, filter it, and distribute each individual packet to a monitoring or security solution. They also perform load balancing, which takes traffic and dynamically distributes it to multiple probes or tools.
Next-generation packet brokers
Gain complete visibility into your network with cloud-native network tapping, intelligent filtering, and advanced packet brokers for virtualized and container-based networks. With advanced network packet brokers and tapping, you can:
- Automate, host-based, and pod-based tapping with a cTap
- Load balance network traffic
- Reduce traffic at the source
- Enable intelligent traffic distribution, filtering, and aggregation,
- Perform header stripping, deduplication, data masking, packet slicing, time stamping, capture to disk, de-fragmentation
- Manage traffic across multiple clouds and domains.