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Key Features
- Comprehensive Platform Range
- Vision U1S, E10S, E40, E50: compact, cost-effective aggregation and filtering appliances.
- Vision E100, 7816: mid-range, scalable visibility nodes.
- E400S, E400P: high-performance packet brokers with FPGA acceleration for terabit-class throughput.
- Vision One, 400, Vision X: advanced platforms with full-stack visibility for enterprise and service providers.
- High-Performance Processing
- CPU processing: flexibility for complex filtering, packet manipulation, and metadata enrichment.
- Silicon/FPGA acceleration: deterministic, line-rate performance for high-throughput environments, even with complex rules.
- Combination of both ensures scale + intelligence, without performance bottlenecks.
- Advanced Traffic Intelligence (Visibility Stacks)
Keysight Vision NPBs support multiple software stacks that extend traffic intelligence far beyond simple aggregation:- NetStack – Base functionality: aggregation, load balancing, traffic replication, and filtering.
- PacketStack – Packet manipulation features: de-duplication, packet slicing, header stripping, time stamping.
- PacketStack+ – Enhanced packet processing: more advanced header removal, user-defined slicing, advanced normalization.
- FlowStack – Generates NetFlow/IPFIX flow records from raw traffic, providing flow-based visibility without dedicated collectors.
- SecureStack – SSL/TLS decryption (inline and out-of-band), security policy enforcement, and secure tunneling.
- AppStack – Application-level visibility and metadata generation (HTTP, DNS, SSL certs, SaaS, etc.), enabling deep observability.
- TradeStack – Specialized for financial trading networks, providing nanosecond-level timestamping and monitoring of latency-sensitive flows.
- MobileStack – Visibility for mobile core networks (GTP, LTE, 4G/5G traffic). Supports session correlation, decapsulation, and filtering of mobile signaling and user plane.
- MobileStack+ – Advanced mobile visibility: includes subscriber-aware filtering, per-user traffic extraction, and advanced 5G observability features.
Benefits for the Client
- Full visibility fabric: from enterprise edge to carrier-grade core, one consistent platform.
- High-speed performance: FPGA acceleration guarantees line-rate processing at 100G+.
- Optimize monitoring & security tools: offload heavy processing (de-duplication, decryption, flow generation) from tools.
- Stronger security posture: deliver decrypted, filtered, and enriched traffic to IDS/IPS, SIEM, and NDR.
- Future-proof: support for 400G and 5G traffic, hybrid and multi-cloud architectures.
Why Keysight NPBs are Different ?
- Dual processing approach: CPU for flexibility, FPGA/silicon for massive throughput.
- Full stack visibility: modular stacks (NetStack → AppStack → MobileStack) cover every use case.
- Specialized stacks: TradeStack for financials, MobileStack for telecom — highly differentiated in the industry.
- Carrier-grade reliability: designed for the largest service provider and financial trading networks.
- Tight integration: works seamlessly with Keysight TAPs, Vision Edge OS, and test/validation tools.
Typical Use Cases
- Aggregate traffic from multiple TAPs and deliver optimized streams to monitoring tools.
- Provide flow records to SIEM or analytics via FlowStack.
- Enable SSL decryption for inline and out-of-band NDR/IDS via SecureStack.
- Deliver application metadata to observability platforms with AppStack.
- Monitor financial trading latency with nanosecond precision via TradeStack.
- Gain visibility into 5G core traffic with MobileStack and MobileStack+.
Services & Support (What We Offer)
- Visibility Architecture Assessment – identify blind spots and design NPB deployments.
- Deployment & Integration – install and tune Vision Series appliances.
- Stack Enablement – activate and configure the right visibility stacks for client use cases.
- Advanced Workshops – SSL/TLS key management, flow analytics, mobile visibility.
- Managed Services – co-sourced operation of Keysight visibility fabrics.
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