cPacket doubles the speed of its packet capture appliance

High-performance environments require packet capture technology that can keep up, notes Sameh Boujelbene, vice president of ethernet switch data center market research at Dell’Oro Group.

“We anticipate that large enterprises will continue upgrading their data center networks from 100 Gbps to 400 Gbps in the coming years, while building additional infrastructure to support the growing demands of AI workloads. This creates an increasing need for packet capture technology that matches the speed, accuracy, and performance requirements of this high-performance environment,” Boujelbene said in a statement. “The cStor 200S helps address these changes in market requirements.”

Specific capabilities featured in the cStor 200S include:

• 200 Gbps concurrent capture-to-disk and analytics for observability and security monitoring in mission-critical enterprise networks.
• Solid state drives (SSD) are leveraged for their speed and reliability, ensuring that captured data is quickly and securely stored, including with self-encrypting drives.
• Line-rate indexing at 200 Gbps, enabling retrieval times of exactly the right packets to reduce mean-time-to-resolution.
• Scalability to adapt to growing enterprise needs, particularly as organizations transition to 100G and 400G networks.

The cStor 200S is installed around the firewalls in a customer environment, because the firewall throughput number provides a “good first approximation” of the traffic levels that need to be captured, cPacket says. Customer can also use the port speeds of their routers and switches as another data point to estimate the required number of cStor 200S devices. The cStor 200S is designed to upgrade or augment existing network traffic monitoring tools. cPacket’s Control Center, or cClear, provides a centralized dashboard interface for all cPacket devices deployed anywhere in a hybrid-cloud network, giving customers unified administration and management capabilities.

The cStor 200s is expected to be generally available in the fourth quarter of this year.