Packet Slicing
Eliminate Unneeded Packet Data
The Packet Slicing feature of the GigaSMART® engine truncates packets while preserving the portion of the packet (the protocol headers) required for network analysis. Packet Slicing can parse variable header packets, starting slicing after a named header (IP, TCP, etc.) with or without VLAN and other tags. Thus, there's no need to rely on a fixed offset to slice packets.
Packet Slicing removes payload that may be irrelevant to network monitoring and security analysis. This reduces tool throughput and disk space while improving performance and data retention. It also removes sensitive data before it is stored, which makes regulatory and privacy compliance easier.
Benefits of the Packet Slicing Feature
- Removes sensitive information from each packet, thus helping address compliance and confidentiality requirements.
- Improves tool performance by eliminating unnecessary transmission of unneeded packet payload.
- Increases storage capacity by giving tools more room to store the important portions of each packet.
- Increases data retention time on forensic or network recorders.
- Reduces needed disk space for backup traffic by up to 95%.
FEATURE BRIEF
Packet and Advanced Flow Slicing
Selectively remove unnecessary content from packets or flows thereby improving tool efficiency.
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GigaSMART Features
GigaSMART® offers several essential traffic intelligence services required for deep observability into infrastructure blind spots.
NetFlow Generation
Delivers basic Layer 2–4 network traffic data to analysis tools.
Source Port Labeling
Provides context to packets and identifies behaviors and threats based on network location.
Adaptive Packet Filtering
Identifies patterns across any part of the network packet, including the packet payload.
De-duplication
Targets, identifies, and eliminates duplicate packets, blocking unnecessary duplication and sending optimized flows.
Packet Slicing
Truncates packets while preserving the protocol headers required for network analysis.
Advanced Load Balancing
Divides and distributes traffic among multiple tools based on a variety of data points.
Advanced Flow Slicing
Reduces bandwidth usage by slicing payloads and packets from long data flows.
Masking
Provides customizable data protection by overwriting specific packet fields with a set pattern.
Tunneling
Alleviates blindness of business-critical traffic at remote sites, virtualized data centers, or in the public or private cloud.
Application Visualization
Provides a complete view of the applications running on your network.
Application Filtering Intelligence
Extends Layer 7 visibility to thousands of common and proprietary applications.
Application Metadata Intelligence
Provides application visibility to identify performance and quality issues, and potential security risks.
GTP Correlation
Enables mobile service providers to monitor subscriber data in GPRS Tunneling Protocol tunnels.
FlowVUE Flow Sampling
Provides subscriber IP-based flow sampling.
5G Correlation
Forwards subscriber sessions to specific tools by filtering on subscriber, user device, RAN, or network slice IDs.
SSL/TLS Decryption
Creates a secure channel between the server and the end user's computer or other devices as they exchange information.
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