cPacket Unified Observability Platform is a network observability solution built around packet-level data collection, brokering, and analysis. The platform is modular, consisting of several components that operate together across on-premise, cloud, and hybrid environments. Components include: - **Packet Broker**: Filters, aggregates, and distributes network traffic to security and performance monitoring tools at line-rate, with 100% packet accountability. - **Packet Capture**: Captures packets at line-rate up to 100Gbps, supporting simultaneous capture, retrieval, and analytics for forensic investigation and reduced MTTR. - **Control Center**: Provides centralized management and data visualization across all cPacket products deployed anywhere on the network. - **Cloud Suite**: An agentless cloud-native packet broker, capture, and analytics solution supporting cloud-first and hybrid-cloud deployments. - **Observability AI**: An AI/ML-driven analytics layer that converts packet data into actionable insights. The platform is designed around the principle that packets provide an objective, immutable record of network activity, making them foundational to both observability and security use cases. All components are designed to operate at line-rate without dropping packets. The platform supports TAP/SPAN-based traffic access throughout network components and is used in data center environments requiring continuous, high-performance network monitoring.