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Overview
CIP is a cloud-native virtual packet broker that delivers deep visibility across public, private, and hybrid clouds, providing optimized, filtered packet data for SOC, NOC, and cloud monitoring tools
Key Features

CIP delivers cloud-native visibility with advanced Layer-7 intelligence, including smart filtering, aggregation, replication, load balancing, tunnel handling, packet/flow slicing, deduplication, NetFlow generation & more - all centrally managed across any cloud.

Use Cases
Ideal for hybrid cloud visibility, SOC/NOC traffic analysis, encrypted traffic inspection, cloud migration monitoring, and optimizing tool workloads across public, private, and multi-cloud environments
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CIP Abstract (1)

Cloud-Native Visibility, Delivered Everywhere...

 

A cloud-native visibility layer that monitors, filters, and enriches traffic across AWS, Azure, GCP, and virtualized data centers.

CIP is a cloud-native virtual packet broker that delivers full packet-level visibility across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. It bridges public clouds and private on-prem virtualization, providing smart filtering, traffic optimization, tunnel handling, and advanced Layer-7 intelligence.  

With centralized management and elastic cloud scalability, CIP ensures SOC, NOC & cloud teams always receive the right traffic, at the right time, with full context.

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A unified virtual packet broker that scales with your cloud workloads and delivers real-time traffic intelligence anywhere.

 

Intelligent

  • Application-aware filtering

  • Layer-7 enrichment

  • TLS/metadata inspection*

Adaptive

  • Auto-scales with cloud workloads

  • Fits any cloud architecture

  • Dynamic traffic steering

Unified

  • Works across AWS, Azure, GCP

  • Integrates with private & on-prem virtualization

  • Single policy and control layer

Scalable
  • High-throughput virtual architecture
  • Multi-region, multi-VPC visibility
  • Tool load optimization

Inspect, Monitor, and Control Packets Across 
Hybrid Cloud  Environments

Cloud Intelligence Platform (CIP) delivers deep packet-level visibility across hybrid cloud environments, ensuring complete insight for security and performance operations.

Cloud-Native Visibility

  • Deploys seamlessly in AWS, Azure, GCP, and private clouds

  • Supports hybrid, multi-cloud, and virtualized infrastructures

  • Scales elastically with cloud workloads and tool requirements

Advanced Layer-7 Network Intelligence

  • Application-aware filtering for precise traffic delivery

  • Regular expression filtering for deep content matching

  • Optional TLS decryption for secure traffic inspection*

  • Subscriber-aware mobile visibility (3G/4G/5G)

Traffic Optimization & Control

  • Packet and flow slicing to reduce load on downstream tools

  • Deduplication to eliminate redundant packets & false positives 

  • Generic header stripping for efficient packet processing

  • NetFlow/IPFIX export for flow-level analytics

Smart Traffic Distribution

  • Filtering, aggregation, replication & intelligent load balancing

  • Tunnel termination for GRE, VXLAN, NVGRE, GENEVE & ERSPAN

  • Tunnel initiation for GRE and VXLAN encapsulation

  • VLAN tag manipulation for clean tool-side delivery

Centralized Management & Automation

  • Role-based access control with a unified web interface

  • Ansible integration for automated, repeatable deployments

  • Simple provisioning across multiple cloud regions and VPCs

High-Performance Virtual Architecture

  • Supports up to 60 vPorts per virtual interface

  • High-throughput packet processing using DPDK/SR-IOV

  • Elastic resource scaling with cloud-native compute

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Use Cases

Virtualized Cloud Packet Broker - The Ultimate Solution for Hybrid Cloud Observability

In today's fast-paced digital world, businesses are embracing the benefits of hybrid cloud environments. However, as these environments become more complex, it's essential to have a comprehensive view of network traffic across your entire infrastructure - on-prem, private cloud, and public cloud environments. That's where cloud packet brokers come in. 

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Enhancing Cloud-Based Mobile Infrastructure Visibility with Cloud Intelligence Platform
Close cloud visibility gaps, optimize SOC/NOC tools with cleaner traffic, enhance mobile and virtual network insight, and ensure secure, seamless cloud operations.
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Unmasking Hidden Spyware and Zero-Day Threats: Enhancing Security Through Network Visibility
Spyware and zero-day attacks are designed to be invisible, but with strong network visibility, they increase the chances of early detection and effective response. Visibility is a foundational layer, but pairing it with effective analysis and rapid response is essential to neutralize threats. By strategically using modern security tools and maintaining comprehensive monitoring, organizations can reduce their vulnerability and defend against today’s most sophisticated cyber threats.a type specimen book.
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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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Cloud Intelligence Platform – Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

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