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    Overview
    The 4532 Packet Broker is a high-performance 100G visibility platform purpose-built for SOC and NOC environments in on-premises and private data center networks, delivering complete traffic visibility, control & optimized tool efficiency
    Key Features

    Smart Network Intelligence powered by FabricFlow™ technology, providing advanced traffic filtering, load balancing, and Open Visibility integration - all centrally managed through NVC for maximum agility & control

    Use Cases

    Empower SOC and NOC operations with optimized data streams, enhanced traffic insight, and seamless integration of monitoring and security tools across 10/25/100G networks

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    4532 Solution abstract (1) (1)

    ACCELERATE THE NETWORK INTELLIGENCE LAYER

    Enhance visibility and control through high-performance aggregation, filtering, replication, load balancing, and traffic grooming across 32 x 40/100G interfaces - all powered by a 3.2 Tbps non-blocking architecture that ensures lossless, line-rate delivery of traffic to the right tools.

    Intelligent

    • Provides advanced aggregation, replication & multi-level filtering
    • Ensures precise & reliable traffic distribution across tools
    • Simplifies complex network architectures
    • Enables seamless traffic flow for performance & security monitoring
    • Enhances the efficiency and accuracy of NOC & SOC tools

     

    Scalable Visibility

    • Flexible 1G/10G/25G/100G port architecture for modern networks
    • Flow-aware policy enforcement: packet slicing, de-duplication, tunnel awareness
    • Optimize tool utilization & reduce data overhead in hybrid, mixed-speed environments
    • FabricFlow™ technology for intelligent traffic mapping and load balancing
    • Supports high-throughput traffic distribution across monitoring tools
    • Reduces tool overload and improves analytics efficiency
    • Ensures consistent performance in high-volume environments

    Adaptive

    • High-density, pay-as-you-grow architecture with flexible port options
    • Optional ePacketron acceleration extends visibility with deep packet inspection, TLS decryption & Layer 7 analytics
    4532 + ePacketron - Packet Visibility (1) (2)

    Accelerate your proactivity for maximum uptime

    The Niagara 4532 Network Packet Broker connects to external ePacketron appliances through dedicated 100G interfaces, enabling advanced Layer 2–Layer 7 packet processing while preserving line-rate packet broker performance. This future-ready architecture supports greater processing power, application awareness, and scalable visibility deployments. Learn more about ePacketron 

    Offload and Accelerate

    Offload intensive packet processing tasks, such as deduplication, slicing, and SSL/TLS decryption, from monitoring & security tools to the visibility layer.
    This improves throughput efficiency, tool performance, and resource utilization across the monitoring infrastructure.

    Scale as Capacity Grows

    A clear upgrade path to ePacketron acceleration for extended compute capacity and advanced feature sets.
    The modular design enables pay-as-you-grow scalability as network traffic and analysis demands evolve.

    Gain Deep Insight

    Leverage packet and flow-level visibility up to Layer 7 for advanced analytics, compliance monitoring, and forensic visibility.
    Integration with FabricFlow provides precise flow control, dynamic traffic optimization, and consistent performance under heavy load.

    TURN NETWORK TRAFFIC INTO ACTIONABLE VISIBILITY

    Network Packet Broker For High-Demand Networks 

    The 4532 model functions as high-performance network packet brokers, enabling intelligent aggregation, filtering, replication, load balancing and ePacketron-accelerated L4–L7 processing to deliver the right traffic to the right tools for monitoring and security

     

    Terabit Visibility Fabric

    • Up to 32 × 40/100Gb ports
    • 3.2Tbps non-blocking switching fabric
    • Full any-to-any port connectivity at line rate
    • 1RU Compact Form Factor 
    • Designed for high-throughput SOC and NOC deployments

    FabricFlow™ Traffic Intelligence

        • Advanced traffic mapping and policy-driven flow steering
        • Traffic aggregation from multiple sources to a single monitoring tool
        • Replication of traffic streams across multiple analysis platforms
        • Flexible load balancing across tool clusters

    Advanced Traffic Filtering

    • Granular filtering based on Layer 2–Layer 4 headers
    • User Defined Byte (UDB) filtering for custom traffic selection
    • Ingress and egress filtering policies for precise traffic control
    • Template-based filtering for fast deployment and reuse

    Traffic Optimization

    • VLAN filtering, stripping, and rewriting
    • Multiple load-balancing algorithms including hash-based and utilization-based
    • Session stickiness to maintain flow integrity across tools
    • Virtual bypass segments enabling advanced service chaining

    Tunnel Awareness

    • GTP filtering
    • GRE termination
    • MPLS filtering and stripping
    • VXLAN filtering and stripping


     

    Expandable Network Intelligence for Future Growth

    • Supports high-speed packet  processing acceleration with  ePacketron expansion to enable advanced network Intelligence 
    • Pay-as-you-grow architecture supporting multiple processing profiles

    MADE in the USA

    Niagara Networks is among the few companies designing and manufacturing network visibility solutions in the USA, ensuring quality, reliability & security compliance Learn more

    4540 - Advanced Packet Broker Use cases

    Use Cases

    Aggregate, filter, and distribute traffic intelligently across multiple monitoring, performance, and security tools.
    Ensure efficient utilization of existing infrastructure by sending only relevant traffic to each tool.

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    Niagara Networks Packet Brokers, combined with the Open Visibility Platform, collect, aggregate, and filter traffic across physical and virtual environments to deliver only relevant, optimized data to SIEM and analytics tools.
    This integration enables session-aware load balancing, removes duplicate packets, and supports centralized or distributed NFV-based inspection, providing agile, scalable visibility for SecOps and NetOps operations.
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    Implement packet slicing to reduce tool load and expose only necessary traffic, while simultaneously exporting NetFlow v9 metadata to multiple collectors - enabling both deep security inspection and distributed traffic analytics from a single visibility node.
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    Advanced Packet Brokers extract and filter encrypted sessions or metadata (e.g. JA3, SNI, TLS attributes) and feed them to NDR platforms for behavioral analysis - detecting threats without full decryption while minimizing exposure, reducing tool load, and preserving compliance.
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    A three-stage architecture combining strategic traffic interception (TAPs/packet brokers), flow-metadata generation and high-speed anomaly detection, enabling service-providers and national backbone operators to detect and mitigate multi-vector DDoS attacks (including Tbps-scale) rapidly & automatically.
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    Duplicate packets from port-mirroring and multi-tap setups flood monitoring tools, driving up storage demands, false positives and processing overhead. By leveraging flow-aware deduplication in the visibility layer, organizations can offload duplicate removal before data hits security tools - improving SOC/NoC accuracy, reducing resource usage & enabling high-throughput monitoring at scale.
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    "We needed an absolutely perfect packet collection system - not just fault-tolerant, but fault-free - and Niagara solution provided that."

    - Data Analysts -

     

    Continuous monitoring is a core requirement of the NIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0, ensuring that adverse events are detected early and acted upon before they escalate. Traditional methods such as SPAN ports or mirroring are no longer sufficient for today’s high-bandwidth and hybrid environments, where blind spots and encrypted traffic can mask threats.
    Niagara Networks addresses this challenge by delivering complete, real-time visibility across physical, virtual, and cloud infrastructures.
    With advanced capabilities such as inline bypass, TLS decryption, packet slicing, and traffic aggregation, Niagara enables NetOps and SecOps teams to continuously monitor all traffic flows, detect anomalies, and ensure compliance. This visibility directly supports
    the Detect (DE.CM) category of NIST CSF 2.0, helping organizations monitor networks, external services, and computing resources
    without compromise.

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    4532 Packet Broker – Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

    The Niagara 4532 is a high-density 100G network packet broker designed to aggregate, filter, replicate, load balance, and optimize network traffic before delivering it to security, monitoring, and analytics tools. It is built for SOC and NOC environments that require scalable visibility across high-speed data center networks.

    The 4532 supports up to 32 ports of 40/100Gb  , providing a flexible mixed-speed architecture for modern data center visibility deployments.

    The 4532 is built on a 3.2 Tbps non-blocking switching fabric, enabling full any-to-any port connectivity at line rate without oversubscription.

    FabricFlow™ is Niagara Networks’ traffic intelligence technology for mapping and controlling traffic flow relationships between source and destination ports. It enables aggregation, replication, filtering, load balancing, and policy-based traffic steering across connected tools.

    With ePacketron acceleration, the 4532 enables advanced functions such as deduplication, packet slicing, SSL/TLS decryption, header stripping, RegEx filtering, data masking, mobile GTP correlation, and NetFlow/IPFIX generation enhancing visibility and reducing tool load.

    The 4532 supports advanced Layer 2–Layer 4 filtering, User Defined Byte filtering, ingress and egress filtering policies, VLAN filtering, VLAN stripping, VLAN rewriting, and reusable filter templates for faster deployment.

    Yes. The 4532 helps reduce tool overload by aggregating traffic from multiple sources, filtering irrelevant traffic, replicating traffic only where needed, and load balancing optimized streams across monitoring and security tools. This helps improve tool utilization and analytics efficiency.

    Yes. The 4532 supports tunnel-aware traffic handling, including GTP filtering, GRE termination, MPLS filtering and stripping, VXLAN filtering and stripping, and VLAN handling. These capabilities help expose relevant traffic from complex data center, service provider, and virtualized environments.

    Common use cases include tool optimization, traffic aggregation, load balancing, SIEM optimization, encrypted traffic visibility, packet slicing, NetFlow export, NDR integration, DDoS visibility, packet deduplication, and forensic packet capture.

    The 4532 can be centrally managed through Niagara Visibility Controller, and it also supports FabricFlow™ orchestration, REST API integration, and traffic policy automation for operational control across the visibility layer. The datasheet also lists CLI, web-based UI, REST API, TACACS+, RADIUS, SNMP, and NTP support.

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    Discover how Niagara’s Network Intelligence platform empowers NOC and SOC teams with advanced packet processing, deep traffic insight, and scalable performance across any environment.


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    From design to production, our solutions are built to the highest standards of quality, security, and performance, trusted by organizations worldwide and deployed in some of the world’s largest mission-critical networks.

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