PacketWolf 400G Network Packet Broker
FPGA-Powered 400Gbps Packet Brokering for Advanced Network Visibility and Security
PacketWolf is a high-performance network packet broker built to process and optimise traffic at speeds of up to 400Gbps. Powered by FPGA technology, it delivers consistent low-latency performance while helping organisations improve network visibility, security monitoring, and traffic analysis. With advanced packet processing, intelligent filtering, metadata generation, and deep tunnel awareness, PacketWolf ensures monitoring and security tools receive only the most relevant traffic, improving efficiency and reducing operational overhead across enterprise, telecom, and data centre environments.
- Delivers up to 400Gbps packet processing with FPGA acceleration for deterministic performance and ultra-low latency.
- Optimises monitoring and security workflows through filtering, deduplication, packet slicing, masking, and traffic conditioning.
- Supports flexible multi-speed connectivity including 100G, 40G, 25G, and 10G interfaces within a compact 1RU platform.
- Reduces tool overload and operational costs by forwarding only relevant traffic and metadata.
- Provides nanosecond-level timestamp accuracy for advanced troubleshooting, performance monitoring, and forensic investigations.
- Enhances visibility across complex networks with support for VLAN, MPLS, VXLAN, GRE, and other encapsulated traffic.
- Enables large-scale traffic aggregation, intelligent load balancing, and packet distribution across multiple monitoring tools.
- Improves threat detection and incident response by delivering enriched packet data and flow information to analytics platforms.
- Supports deployment across enterprise, cloud, telecom, and service provider environments.
- Designed for continuous operation with redundant power supplies and hot-swappable components.
- High-speed packet processing and brokering with up to 400Gbps non-blocking throughput using FPGA-based acceleration.
- 4 × 100G QSFP28 interfaces with support for 40G operation.
- Supports breakout configurations for 8 × 25G or 16 × 10G connectivity.
- Enterprise-grade hardware platform with advanced CPU, 64GB DDR4 memory, NVMe storage, and dual 10G management ports.
- Nanosecond-accurate timestamping with IEEE 1588v2 PTP, NTP, and external PPS support.
- Advanced filtering and tunnel-aware traffic inspection for MAC, VLAN, IPv4, IPv6, TCP, UDP, MPLS, GRE, GTP, L2TP, and custom rules.
- Traffic optimisation capabilities including packet deduplication, truncation, slicing, and sensitive data masking.
- Comprehensive tunnel decapsulation and processing for VLAN, VXLAN, MPLS, GRE, GENEVE, LISP, NVGRE, ERSPAN, GTP, and more.
- Traffic aggregation, port splitting, labelling, VLAN tagging, and intelligent load balancing based on multiple traffic attributes.
- Built-in packet capture, PCAP replay, NetFlow/IPFIX export, and metadata streaming through Kafka.
- Supports flexible deployment in both single-tier and two-tier out-of-band monitoring architectures.
- Multiple management options including CLI, SSH, Web UI, REST API, Syslog, and RADIUS/TACACS+/LDAP authentication.
- Integrated PCAP viewer and packet editing tools for traffic analysis and troubleshooting.
- Enterprise-class reliability with Digital Diagnostics Monitoring, N+1 hot-swappable fans, and redundant AC/DC power supplies.
- Front-to-back airflow design optimised for modern hot-aisle/cold-aisle data centre environments.
- 4 × 100G QSFP28 interfaces delivering up to 400Gbps data throughput
- Alternative fan-out options: 4 × 40G QSFP+ / 8 × 25G / 16 × 10G interfaces
- Alternative Configurations available on request
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