Why Use A Network Packet Broker?

A Network Packet Brokers (NPB) is a device that is deployed and controlled by the IT network team to mirror, consolidate, process and forward the networking traffic to performance and security tools. Hence the security team can be a user of it and it is in its best interest to work with the network team to get a NPB procured and deployed.

There are several benefits of having a NPB in your data center or service provider environment and this one page infographic elaborates them all.