Cloud Intelligence Platform

• Improved network performance and cloud infrastructure observability - Niagara Networks' Cloud Packet Broker helps NetOps to optimize network performance by allowing them to see what's happening in real time across the digital perimeter and the hybrid cloud networks. With the right data at teams' fingertips, the IT NetOps team can quickly identify and resolve issues that affect network, applications, and service performance.
  
  
• Enhanced and efficient cloud security - Niagara Networks Cloud Packet Broker helps SecOps to secure their cloud infrastructure by providing a comprehensive view of all traffic flowing through the hybrid cloud infrastructure. With real-time visibility, SecOps can quickly detect and respond to threats, reducing the risk of data breaches and security incidents across the entire attack surface.
  
  
• Regulatory Compliance -  Niagara Networks Cloud Packet Broker helps CISCO/CIOs meet regulatory requirements by providing a centralized snapshot of network activity to IT teams and streamlining the complex stack of tools into efficient and coherent data visibility/compliance. With the right data and digital forensics, the IT team can demonstrate compliance with industry standards, such as PCI DSS,  HIPAA, CCPA, CPRA, GDPR, SOC, FISMA, FedRAMP, etc.and others.
  
  
• Empower the IT teams with 360-degree visibility -  the Virtual TAPs from Niagara Networks can be deployed and orchestrated to scale on any virtual infrastructure, including private data centers and private or public clouds. This allows organizations to use virtual TAPs to monitor and analyze network traffic on their virtual infrastructure, regardless of where it is located. By providing end-to-end visibility across a hybrid IT environment, virtual TAPs help organizations to better protect their digital assets and optimize network performance. They are also flexible and scalable, able to meet the needs of an organization as it grows and evolves. Combining virtual TAPs with a virtual Cloud Packet broker offers organizations an efficient IT toolkit that can streamline operations, increase threat detection, and optimize performance in hybrid cloud environments.
  

• Distributes packets to various endpoints, such as Security Operations Centers (SOCs), dashboards, security tools, and cloud performance management tools - Providing a flexible visibility solution across VPC regions with consistent and stringent SLAs.
  
  
• Scales out according to the cloud consumption model to align with the expansion of data traffic and data lakes.
  
  
  
• Virtual Packetron for packet intelligence - enhanced packet manipulation from data layer up to application layer.

• Provides an overview of system health, traffic, and monitoring status, with the ability to view all VPB deployments across public clouds from a single console.

Niagara Networks’ Cloud Intelligence Platform (CIP) integrates advanced functions that ensure monitoring, security, and performance tools always receive clean, accurate, and actionable data. Here are a few of the essential features:

• Traffic Deduplication
  Cloud environments often capture the same packets at multiple collection points, which can overwhelm monitoring tools with duplicates. CIP automatically eliminates redundant packets so that only unique traffic is processed. This improves tool performance, reduces resource consumption, and lowers costs.
  
  
• Packet Slicing
  Cloud environments often generate large packet sizes that can overwhelm monitoring and security tools. CIP supports packet slicing, allowing operators to retain only the essential portions of a packet -typically headers and selected metadata - while removing unnecessary payload content. This reduces bandwidth overhead, improves processing speeds, and minimizes storage consumption without compromising visibility or compliance.

• Data Masking & Privacy Controls
  Sensitive information such as user identifiers, financial data, or personal records must be handled with care, especially in multi-tenant or regulatory environments. CIP applies data masking to obscure confidential fields before traffic reaches monitoring tools. This ensures compliance with global data-protection standards (GDPR, PCI-DSS, HIPAA) while preserving analytical value.

• Regex-Based Filtering
  CIP provides flexible traffic filtering based on regular expressions, enabling highly granular control over which packets, flows, or protocols are forwarded to security tools. This helps reduce noise, focus detection efforts, and eliminate irrelevant or distracting traffic types. Regex filtering is especially useful for identifying application-specific patterns, anomalies, or compliance-sensitive data.

• Tunnel Decapsulation & Multi-Layer Awareness
  Modern cloud workloads use layers of encapsulation (VXLAN, GRE, GTP, IP-in-IP). CIP detects, decapsulates, and normalizes these tunnels, exposing inner payloads and metadata. This multi-layer visibility ensures monitoring and security tools can inspect the true underlying traffic, improving accuracy in environments with distributed microservices, container architectures, or mobile-core tunnels.

• NetFlow/IPFIX Generation
  CIP converts raw packet streams into NetFlow/IPFIX records, giving operators lightweight, scalable flow-level visibility without needing to forward full packets. This dramatically reduces bandwidth requirements to collectors and enables long-term traffic analysis, behavioral baselining & capacity planning - especially in large cloud or hybrid networks.

• TLS/SSL Decryption*
  Encrypted cloud traffic is a growing blind spot for monitoring and security tools. CIP performs TLS/SSL decryption, exposing encrypted flows so that downstream tools can detect hidden threats, classify applications, and enforce compliance. Decryption policies can be applied selectively to protect privacy while still unlocking actionable intelligence.

• Multi-Cloud Ingestion & Unified Aggregation
  CIP is designed to handle traffic from any cloud, including AWS VPC Traffic Mirroring, Google Cloud Packet Mirroring, Azure vTAP, and 3rd party virtual TAPs. All sources are aggregated into a unified visibility layer, simplifying operations and ensuring consistent monitoring across distributed infrastructures -on-prem, public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid.

• GTP Correlation
  In mobile networks (GPRS, LTE, 5G), subscriber sessions are spread across multiple tunnels and packets.
  CIP performs GTP correlation to track and link these sessions, ensuring that analysis and security tools see a coherent flow of user data. This is critical for troubleshooting, billing accuracy, and security monitoring.
  
  
• Deep Packet Inspection (DPI)
  Going beyond headers, CIP’s DPI capabilities analyze the payload of packets to identify applications, protocols, and metadata. This enables mobile providers to perform application-level monitoring, enforce compliance, and strengthen security by detecting anomalies within encrypted or application-specific traffic.
  
  
• Load Balancing
  High-traffic cloud environments demand elasticity. CIP intelligently distributes traffic across multiple monitoring and security tools, preventing overloads and ensuring consistent performance. This load balancing also allows seamless scalability as demand grows.

Together, these capabilities create a comprehensive visibility framework that enables providers to adapt to cloud complexities while ensuring service quality and user experience.