Network Packet Broker for the next Generation
Maximise your investment in monitoring and security tools with Network Packet Broker
Networks have become increasingly complex due to the adoption of transformational technologies including 5G SA, SDN, SD-WAN, virtualization, and IoT. This has created ‘blind spots’. Blind spots are network traffic that is not visible to network monitoring, security and analytics tools and can hide and obscure network performance and security threats.
Cubro’s centralized network management software, Vitrum, delivers a coveted “single pane of glass” interface for overseeing Cubro devices. Vitrum improves the network team efficiency with a breadth of features for managing, monitoring, and alerting all in one multi-user application.
What is the role of a network packet broker?
Network Packet Brokers (NPBs) remove network traffic blind spots, optimize network traffic, filter network traffic, load balance, and support high speed connections (currently) up to 400Gbps. NPBs receive and aggregate network traffic from switch SPAN ports or network TAPs which can then be filtered, deduplicated, and further optimized to enable more efficient use of security and performance tools.
What makes Cubro’s network packet broker different?
Cubro’s advanced NPBs are designed to meet the needs of complex networks and support numerous tunnelling protocols including MPLS, MPLS over UDP, GRE, NVGRE, VXLAN, CFP, ERSPAN and GTP. The key to realizing such an advanced feature set is that we are using high-performance silicons giving us the flexibility and performance to truly function as a Next Generation Network Packet Broker.
The Solution –
Sample deployment illustration
Find the Network Packet Broker that fits your network
Next generation Network Packet Brokers with built-in CPU up to
These products feature one or two built-in high-performance ARM CPUs for most demanding applications like Deduplication, Regex Search filtering or NetFlow generation. Moreover, these products allow to run Custos which is our own embedded network monitoring software based on DPI including Application filtering.
Advanced Network Packet Brokers for
These advanced network packet brokers provide perfect solution for any tunneled traffic by allowing to filter inside tunnel and remove tunnels. These packet brokers also offer all the features of classical layer 4 products.
Classical Network Packet Brokers up to
The perfect choice to aggregate, filter and load-balance IPv4 and IPv6 traffic.
Compare features and functionalities of our network packet brokers
Business Value of Using a Network Packet Broker
- Improve network performance
- Improve network security posture, network analytics and business continuity
- Reduce network infrastructure and network tool costs and TCO
- Increase network tools’ life span and ROI
- Extend network tools’ life span
- Improve operational flexibility, while not affecting the original network traffic
- Easy planning and budgeting – transparent pricing with, typically, all features and capacity included
Unlock Advanced Capabilities: 1 Nanosecond Timestamping
1 nano second timestamping for EXA32100A/EXA64100 Network Packet Brokers
We proudly announce that our flagship G5plus family of high-speed 100G Network Packet Brokers has been further enhanced. With the new software release, the EXA32100A/EXA64100 Network Packet Brokers allow adding 8-byte timestamp information to arriving packets. This 8-byte timestamp information allows to include exact Time of Day down to 1 nanosecond resolution for every arriving packet. Time of Day precision is not available with 6 Byte timestamping.
Our enhanced 8-byte timestamping feature on the EXA32100A/EXA64100 Network Packet Brokers offers benefits not only for monitoring and troubleshooting but also for compliance and reporting.
Monitoring and troubleshooting: Timestamps help in analyzing network performance and identifying issues. The precision of a 1ns timestamp is beneficial when dealing with high-speed networks, as it allows for higher-resolution timing analysis.
Compliance and Reporting: Timestamps can be essential for regulatory compliance and auditing purposes, as they provide reliable evidence at which time a packet has arrived.
This enhancement significantly benefits the financial sector, where precision and accuracy are paramount. With the 8-byte timestamping feature, financial institutions can ensure that all transactions are timestamped correctly when stored in their database. This level of accuracy is crucial for auditing, compliance, and maintaining the integrity of financial data.
Learn more about timestamping with Cubro’s network packet brokers.
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