How NIKSUN delivers it
NIKSUN's packet capture is the most powerful in the industry. Run 100 Gbps with ease and cluster to multi-Tbps — without losing a single packet — in a footprint as small as one-tenth of other solutions. Complete data means zero blind spots for everything built on top.
Up to 60% less power · 80% less rack space · petabyte-scale retention · fully air-gap capable
Every packet captured, timestamped, and indexed to the NKW with no drops — even at line rate. No loss means no blind spots in detection, forensics, or performance.
Handle 100 Gbps links comfortably and cluster appliances to reach multi-Tbps of sustained, line-rate capture as you grow.
Purpose-built hardware and NikOS deliver this scale in as little as 1/10 the space — with up to 60% less power and 80% less rack space.
Because NIKSUN captures the entire packet and analyzes with no sampling, you aren't limited to the loudest talkers. You can query Bottom-N too — the rare, quiet events sampling tools average away. That's what surfaces intermittent, hard-to-reproduce performance issues and low-and-slow attacks built to stay under the threshold.
Meet NetBlackBox ProTotal recall doesn't have to mean total cost. Industry-leading compression shrinks NIKSUN's footprint below any competitor — and from every packet we generate thousands of rich metadata fields. Retention is fully configurable: keep packets and metadata for exactly as long as each deserves — independently, with no theoretical limit to either.
Capturing every packet means capturing sensitive data too. NIKSUN masks it before anyone sees it, gates access by role — and the zero-loss guarantee isn't marketing.
Mask sensitive fields — PII, PCI, PHI — automatically, so analysts get the evidence they need without ever seeing what they shouldn't.
Role-based access with end-to-end encryption in motion and at rest — and fully air-gap capable for the most restricted environments.
Not a single dropped packet — validated across demanding enterprise deployments and the most rigorous government and defense testing.
Every packet off the wire at line rate, with zero loss.
Precision timestamping and indexing as packets arrive.
Written to the NKW at petabyte scale for long retention.
Ultra-fast search and replay back-in-time, on demand.
Capture once, losslessly — then run detection, forensics, performance, and observability on the very same data. No duplicate collection, no gaps between tools.
Sampling and lossy SPAN force every tool downstream to guess. NIKSUN's lossless capture gives detection, forensics, performance, and Maya AI the same complete, replayable record — the difference between knowing and assuming.
For sites without a full-time capture appliance, NetTrident pulls packets back and stores them in NetBin — so you still get ground-truth packets where you need them, when you need them. Decrypt those captures with built-in decryption, TLS 1.3 included.
See NIKSUN capture at 100 Gbps and beyond — losslessly, in a fraction of the footprint.
