Niagara Networks - Network Visibility
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Overview
ePacketron 55xx series enhances Niagara’s packet broker with deep packet intelligence from network to application layer...
Key Features

Smart Network Intelligence - traffic optimization and packet intelligence for NOC and SOC teams - routing the right data to the right tools

Use Cases
Powering visibility, security, and performance - anywhere packets flow
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ePacketron - Packet Visibility Value

ACCELERATE YOUR NETWORK INTELLIGENCE LAYER

The ePacketron Acceleration Solution transforms your visibility architecture into a high-performance, application-aware processing layer.
It offloads intensive packet operations - such as deduplication, slicing, NetFlow generation,
and header stripping - from monitoring and security tools to the visibility layer.
This delivers scalable performance, deeper traffic insight, and operational efficiency across
NOC and SOC environments.

Intelligent

Transforms packet brokers into a smart visibility fabric capable of deep packet inspection and advanced traffic analysis.

Scalable

Flexible, pay-as-you-grow design supporting multiple processing profiles and high-speed deployments.

Adaptive

Dynamically applies network intelligence functions per flow for any use case - from encrypted traffic analytics to mobile visibility.

ePacketron - Packet Visibility

ePacketron Architecture 

ePacketron connects directly to the Niagara's Network Packet Broker fabric through dedicated 100G interfaces, enabling any ingress or egress port to benefit from advanced packet intelligence. Integrated with FabricFlow™, it delivers precise per-flow processing, scalable performance, and application-aware agility across your visibility layer.

Offload and Accelerate

Shift heavy packet processing from monitoring tools to the visibility layer, improving tool performance and efficiency.

Scale as You Grow

Select the platform and licenses that match your required processing capacity, and expand easily as traffic increases.

Gain Deep Insight

Access detailed packet and flow-level visibility up to Layer 7 for faster troubleshooting and enhanced security analytics.

Network Intelligence Functions Enabled by the ePacketron Acceleration Solution

Niagara’s ePacketron-powered architecture transforms the visibility layer into a true Network Intelligence platform. Each application listed below is seamlessly deployable through the ePacketron Acceleration Solution, extending the traditional Packet Broker’s capabilities beyond traffic distribution into application-level and subscriber-aware visibility.

Packet Slicing

Packet Slicing reduces the volume of data to be forwarded for analysis and processing by a network appliance by reducing the packet length. This is especially useful for network applications that only require header analysis and or a defined set of bytes from each packet. Packet length is reduced based on user configurable rules.

Header Stripping

Header Stripping is designed to facilitate and modify traffic in a manner that the intended network tool can process it and fulfill its intended purpose. Niagara’s application will strip the header from the traffic exposing the relevant packet for processing. 

Data Masking

Data Masking enables the enterprise to forward and share data traffic across departments, while at the same time providing them with a tool to mask private and confidential user information that is contained in the data.

Deduplication

Deduplication identifies and removes duplicate packets from being sent to a network appliance. While duplicate packets may occur on the network from backup and failovers deployment architectures, the more common occurrence is with the use of multiple SPAN ports across connected switches and routers that are feeding to a network appliance. When a network appliance handles duplicate packets, the duplicate packets consume the tools limited processing resources, resulting in significant performance degradation and may also affect the accuracy and results reported.

Application Filtering

Identification of applications and layer 7 protocols often require deep packet inspection and analysis. Application filtering performs DPI and supports the identification of dozens of applications. Supported application list is updated on a regular basis.

Tunnel Support

Tunnels are used to encapsulate traffic and send it from one location to another. This application supports the ability to encapsulate traffic and send it to a remote/central location. It also supports the ability to terminate a tunnels and forward the decapsulated (de-tunneled) traffic to a network tool. 

NetFlow/IPFIX

With the increase in traffic capacity on the one hand and the need for greater processing granularity on the other, many network tools ingest traffic metadata rather than the raw traffic data packets themselves. There are well-standardized metadata frameworks as well as numerous specified fields and extensions for additional vendor-specific fields. Often, metadata reports are generated by the network element itself like a switch or a router. The disadvantage is that as metadata generation is not the primary objective of the switch or router, metadata performance generated by the switch or router may be degraded in times of congestion versus Niagara’s solution where such degradation does not take place. Furthermore, to address congestion, the switch or router utilizes traffic sampling, instead of taking into account every packet in the flow.

Regular Expression Filtering

Regex Patterns application, functions as an expansion for existing filtering and data masking capabilities, while adding additional new modes of operation. The user can define any pattern through a regular expression, or load a predefined expression. With this capability, the user can perform advanced packet filtering, advanced masking and advanced session filtering.  With session filtering, once the pattern is detected in any packet, the entire session is identified and can be filtered. For every pattern match, the user can configure to filter or to exclude the match

Mobile GTP Correlation

GTP Correlation encompases multiple applications associated with facilitating network tool connectivity in mobile environments. One of the primary challenges in mobile networks network tools, whether used for performance, monitoring, behavioral analysis, and or any other analysis that requires differentiating user traffic is that in mobile networks the user plane and control plane are decoupled. In order to correctly identify a specific user’s traffic we need to correlate it with the control/signaling plane. Other associated applications include optimized load balancing based on user traffic, IMSI filtering and more.

* TLS Decryption

TLS Decryption feature gives organizations deep visibility into encrypted network traffic - turning what would otherwise be blind data flow into actionable intelligence. The built-in decryption engine (supported by the ePacketron acceleration module) dynamically identifies and decrypts SSL/TLS sessions (from SSL 3.0 up to TLS 1.3), whether the traffic is web, email, messaging, DNS or file transfers, across high-speed interfaces. Decrypted traffic can then be replicated, load-balanced, or steered to multiple monitoring and security tools - so you “decrypt once, inspect many.” Deployment is flexible: you can use active in-line, passive in-line or out-of-band decryption depending on your architecture. By consolidating decryption at the visibility layer, this approach offloads computational burden from individual tools and ensures consistent, high-performance threat detection and forensic visibility across the network. 

Protocol Reporting

Protocol Reporting provides a comprehensive understanding of how network traffic is composed and consumed. By analyzing usage volume and breaking down flows by protocol, it delivers a clear picture of traffic distribution and utilization across the entire network. This visibility helps teams identify anomalies, validate performance baselines, and ensure that capacity and SLA targets are being met. With accurate insights into protocol behavior, organizations can optimize resource planning, troubleshoot issues faster, and maintain overall network health.

Packet Capture

Packet Capture empowers security and operations teams with granular access to the packets that matter most. By recording selected traffic for offline inspection, it enables detailed forensic analysis, retrospective investigation, and precise reconstruction of past events. This capability is essential for incident response, law-enforcement data requests, troubleshooting complex issues, and conducting post-breach analysis with confidence. Packet Capture ensures that no critical evidence is lost and that teams have the depth of visibility required to understand root causes and strengthen security posture.

 

Note: *  Future Software Release

Unleashing Network Intelligence for SOC

Use Cases

Unleashing Network Intelligence through TLS Decryption

Niagara Networks’ TLS Decryption Solution enhances cybersecurity threat detection by offloading intensive decryption tasks from NetSecOps tools, improving overall performance and compliance processes. The solution can selectively filter traffic from specific points of interest, dynamically detect, and decrypt encrypted web content, emails, messaging, DNS, and files collected from multiple interfaces. This intelligent approach ensures that only the required traffic is decrypted and efficiently delivered to the appropriate security tools. 

Read The Application Note
A Scalable and Intelligent Framework for Encrypted Traffic Detection
Legacy visibility approaches are no longer enough. A simple TAP or SPAN port won’t help when the payload is encrypted, and full decryption at scale often introduces legal, ethical, and operational risks. What’s needed is a smarter way to see what’s happening, without necessarily seeing everything.
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Enhancing Cloud-Based Mobile Infrastructure Visibility with Niagara Networks’ Cloud Intelligence Platform
When subscriber traffic explodes across multiple clouds, tools often drown in duplicates, incomplete sessions, or missed threats. 
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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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ePacketron – Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

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