Niagara Networks Network Visibility Platform is a portfolio of hardware and software products designed to provide visibility across physical and virtual network infrastructures. The portfolio includes Network Packet Brokers, Bypass Switches, Network TAPs, and a unified orchestration layer. **Core Components:** - Advanced Network Packet Brokers (models 4540, 4248-6c) for traffic aggregation, filtering, and forwarding - Virtualized Network Packet Broker (CIP) and Virtual TAP (vTAP) for cloud environments - Bypass Switches (models 3808E, 3299, 3296) for high-availability and inline failover - Modular passive TAP (model 3225) for passive network tapping - Packetron – a pluggable packet acceleration module for packet brokers - ePacketron – an external packet acceleration appliance - NVC – a single-pane-of-glass orchestration layer for the visibility infrastructure - Open Visibility Platform – supports third-party virtual application hosting **Traffic Intelligence Capabilities (via Packetron):** - Packet processing across OSI Layers 2–7 for both IPv4 and IPv6 - Packet payload slicing, header stripping, data masking, and deduplication - Packet replication and regular expression-based filtering - Packet capture and protocol reporting - Application-level recognition and filtering - NetFlow/IPFIX metadata generation (plain and tunneled traffic) - Tunnel termination: ERSPAN, GRE, NVGRE, VXLAN, GENEVE - Selective TLS/SSL decryption (inline active and passive) - Mobile visibility: GTP correlation, filtering, and load balancing - Virtual tool chaining and third-party virtual application hosting