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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 & cloud monitoring tools
Key Features

Cloud-native visibility with virtual packet broker intelligence that parses &  manipulates L2–L7 traffic - all centrally managed across any cloud environment and private data-center virtualized infrastructure

Use Cases
Ideal for hybrid cloud visibility, SOC/NOC traffic analysis, encrypted traffic inspection, cloud migration monitoring, and optimizing tool workloads across public, private & multi-cloud environments
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Cloud-Native Visibility, Delivered Everywhere...

 

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

Cloud Intelligence Platform (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.

CIP - Packet Data Intelligence

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

  • Flexible policy profiles & unified
    control layer

Scalable
  • High-throughput virtual architecture
  • Multi-region, multi-VPC visibility
  • Tool load optimization
CIP - You Can't Secure, Optimize, or Monitor Traffic you Can't See

Why Cloud Intelligence Platform Is Required in Modern Virtualized Cloud Environments?

Traditional packet brokers were designed for predictable, box-based networks.
Cloud networks are dynamic, on-demand, multi-layered, and use overlay tunneling (VPC/VNet, VXLAN, GENEVE, GRE), making traffic flow opaque to security and performance tools.

In virtualized and cloud-native networks:

  • Traffic is highly distributed across availability zone, subnets, and regions
  • East–West traffic grows and becomes harder to tap
  • Cloud-native services use encapsulation (VXLAN/GENEVE) and micro-service routing
  • Tools must ingest only the right traffic, not full packet copies
  • VMs, containers, and server-less workloads have short lifecycles
  • Cloud providers limit or block access to the raw packet plane
  • This means traditional TAPs, SPAN ports, and physical packet brokers cannot operate where the traffic actually lives

CIP solves the core challenge of visibility in virtualized, multi-cloud networks:

Built for Cloud-Native Overlay

CIP is built specifically for cloud environments that operate at speed, scale and elasticity

Close to Workloads

CIP engines run close to workloads, applying L2–L7 processing locally without moving traffic across the cloud

Traffic Reduction Before Sending to SOC/NOC Tools

Eliminating duplicates, irrelevant packets, unnecessary tunnels, noisy flows & reducing payload size through packet slicing. CIP also handles encrypted traffic with optional TLS decryption*, resulting in lower tool overhead and faster investigation times

Cloud-Native Compliance & Segmentation

Operate visibility virtual toolkit within the same trust boundary as the cloud application. No exporting raw traffic across accounts or regions unless policy-approved by SOC/NOC and cloud operations teams

You Can't Secure, Optimize, or Monitor Traffic you Can't See...

CIP gives cloud, NetOps, and SOC teams a virtual packet broker layer purpose-built for distributed cloud architectures - bringing packet intelligence back into environments where traditional solutions cannot reach

Elastic, Event-Driven Scaling

CIP scales with cloud workload changes - spinning up more engines during traffic spikes & scaling down when idle, enabling efficient TCO through an agile, cloud-native software architecture

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

  • Intelligent filtering, aggregation, replication & load balancing

  • Full tunnel termination for GRE, VXLAN, NVGRE, GENEVE & ERSPAN 

  • Header stripping for VNTag, VLAN/QinQ, FabricPath, MPLS, PPPoE, ERSPAN, GTP-U and Cisco Ttag, enabling clean tool-side delivery

Centralized Management & Automation

  • Role-based access control with a unified web interface

  • CIP combines a central controller with distributed engines to manage virtual packet processing across cloud environments

  • 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

CIP - USE CASES - THE ULTIMATE SOLUTION FOR HYBRID CLOUD

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. 

Read more
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)

What is the Cloud Intelligence Platform (CIP)?

Which cloud environments does CIP support?

What visibility functions does CIP provide?

What methods of traffic delivery to CIP are supported?

What is vPacketron and how does it enhance CIP?

Does CIP support encrypted traffic visibility?

Can CIP improve tool performance & reduce costs?

How is CIP deployed?

How does the CIP Controller simplify operations?

Does CIP scale with cloud workloads?

Can CIP integrate with existing visibility layers?

Where can I access documentation and supported versions?

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