PFS Product Portfolio

As your traffic volume grows, so too should your readiness to respond to issues as they arise. The NETSCOUT nGenius packet flow switch (PFS) and TAPs family enables multiple IT groups to aggregate, re

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about 5 years ago

The Best Way to Collect Wire Data

John Curtis, Senior Product Manager at NETSCOUT discusses the best way to collect wire data. Both AWS and Azure offer traffic monitoring to their offerings that consists of copying the traffic from th

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over 7 years ago

NETSCOUT Packet Flow Visibility for Open Compute Platforms

NETSCOUT recently announced new nGenius PFS 5000 network packet brokers based on off-the-shelf Open Compute platforms. While Big Switch Networks blazed this trail back in 2013 with the launch of...

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almost 4 years ago

NETSCOUT Introduces Cybersecurity Forensics for AWS Cloud Workloads

NETSCOUT introduces cybersecurity forensics for AWS cloud workloads, offering packet-based threat hunting and incident response in AWS

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over 4 years ago

From Purpose-Built to OCP-Based Platforms

Open Compute Project hardware has closed the gap between off-the-shelf and purpose-built network packet brokers. Learn about the benefits of a disaggregated approach.

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almost 5 years ago

NETSCOUT Extends Its Visibility Without Borders into Google Cloud with Packet Mirroring

NETSCOUT harnesses Google Cloud Packet Mirroring for real-time data analysis and assure Enterprise Security and Application Performance Management in Google Cloud.

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over 5 years ago

AWS Traffic Mirroring Contributes to NETSCOUT’s Smart Data Intelligence

Amazon VPC traffic mirroring helps NETSCOUT to seamlessly extend our packet capturing capabilities to AWS and gain visibility without borders into applications.

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over 6 years ago

A New Twist In SSDP Attacks

Arbor ASERT has uncovered a new class of SSDP abuse where naïve devices will respond to SSDP reflection/amplification attacks with a non-standard port. The resulting flood of UDP packets have...

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over 6 years ago

Visibility at scale

Deploy strategic visibility plane for unified IT operations

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over 6 years ago

Why Packet Flow Switches Should Be Like Social Media

No travel this week, so I’ve been getting caught up and up to date in all my social media venues and online content. In doing so, I watched the premier of a new show called Living Biblically, long...

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almost 7 years ago

Is ‘Virtual’ Packet Brokering Possible?

Achieving visibility of network traffic in the physical vs. virtual environments requires fundamentally different approaches. In the physical world, you have access to physical ports on switches...

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about 7 years ago

Rise of Software-driven Packet Broker Solutions

By enabling customers to smoothly transition to software-driven packet broker solutions, NETSCOUT has demonstrated visionary excellence with the nGenius® 5000 Series Packet Flow Switch (PFS) and...

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about 7 years ago

The Second Wave of Packet Broker Disaggregation

Written by Dr. Jim Metzler Dr. Jim Metzler is widely recognized as an authority on both network technology and its business applications. In over 28 years of professional experience, Jim has...

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over 7 years ago

How NETSCOUT is Disrupting the Packet Broker Market

Written by Dr. Jim Metzler Dr. Jim Metzler is widely recognized as an authority on both network technology and its business applications. In over 28 years of professional experience, Jim has...

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over 7 years ago

Making the Invisible Visible for Service Providers

With Network Function Virtualization/Software-Defined Networking (NFV/SDN), it is no longer possible to tap into physical gigabyte IP-links to access network traffic with traditional packet broker...

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about 8 years ago

The Digital Transformation of Financial Transactions

Any digital service depends on digital transactions which traverse the service delivery infrastructure encapsulated into IP packets. Many of these transactions originate from apps running on...

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over 9 years ago

Understanding Service Performance in IP Networks

IP networking allows the network to dynamically route packets through multiple paths (non-deterministic) and re-assembles them at the end point, so the receiver is completely unaware of the route...

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