- Aggregates, filters, and load balances 10GE/40GE networks for greater visibility
- Provides industry-leading port density in a compact form factor
- Performs tool load-balancing to protect investments in existing monitoring tools
- Maintains synchronized link status on both sides of a tool or network with link-failure detection
- Delivers smart rebalancing to minimize disruption on existing traffic and tools
- High availability supports active-active or active-standby modes, auto sync or manual sync of configuration and operation status, and highly reliable synchronization engine with spare ports for protection
A new way to support security tools
Problem: The high risks for high-volume networks
As an organization with high-volume networks, you face an interesting conundrum: You must carefully inspect all traffic on your 10GE and 40GE networks to ensure network security. However, careful monitoring often requires investing heavily in high-performance tools—otherwise, you risk oversubscribing your existing security tools. No wonder many organizations are eager for a new approach to handling and manipulating their network packets.
Solution: Brokering network-packet perfection
Specifically designed for high-speed networks, the battle-proven Ixia Vision xStream 40 network packet broker (NPB) has the most complete feature set in the industry for inline tool deployment. Cost-effectively and efficiently, it increases the visibility of traffic from one or many network links to today’s wide variety of monitoring, security, and acceleration tools. As a powerful NPB, the Vision xStream 40 boasts a number of key attributes. Among these are comprehensive high-availability features to support the deployment of fail-safe inline security tools. Additionally, smart load-balancing capabilities help relieve oversubscribed tools and enable the deployment of multiple tools in parallel for increased throughput and maximum flexibility. By supporting inline serial tools such as secure sockets layer (SSL) decryptors, intrusion prevention systems, and firewalls, the Vision xStream 40 equips you for a variety of real-world enterprise network deployment scenarios.
Visibility Intelligence
Stack up Ixia’s leading visibility intelligence features to optimize your traffic analysis and security tool performance. Used with a network packet broker, virtual or cloud platform, the extensive set of intelligent features allows you to modify, mold and transport traffic specific to tool needs. Each feature is executed with a purpose-built design to ensure you get the best performance whether in a physical data-center or in the cloud. To learn more, click on each stack.

NETStack
Robust filtering, aggregation, replication, and more - the Ixia gold standard baseline for visibility
- Priority Based Filtering
- Source Port Labeling (VLAN Tagging & Untagging)
- Aggregation & Replication
- Load Balancing
- Double your Ports- DyP (Simplex)

AppStack capabilities are not available for this network packet broker or this platform at this time - visit the page to learn more
PacketStack
Intelligent packet filtering, manipulation and transport
- Deduplication
- Header (protocol) Stripping & Packet Trimming
- Timestamping
- Data Masking
- GRE Tunneling
- Burst Protection (Deep Packet Buffering)

SecureStack capabilities are not available for this network packet broker or for this platform at this time - visit the page to learn more
SecureStack
Optimized handling for secure traffic
- Active SSL
- Passive SSL Decryption
- Threat Insights
- Data Masking Plus

AppStack capabilities are not available for this network packet broker or this platform at this time - visit the page to learn more
AppStack
Context aware, signature based application layer filtering
- Application Identification
- Geolocation & Tagging
- Optional RegEx Filtering
- IxFlow (NetFlow + Meta Data)
- Packet Capture
- ATI Subscription
- Real-time Dashboard

MobileStack
Visibility intelligence tailored for the mobile carrier evolved packet core
- GTP & SIP Correlation
- GTP & SIP Load Balancing
- Subscriber Filtering
- Subscriber Sampling
- Subscriber Whitelisting
- Packet Core Filtering

TradeStack capabilities are not available for this network packet broker or this platform at this time - visit the page to learn more
TradeStack
Marked feed data monitoring
- Gap Detection
- Feed and Channel Health
- High Resolution Traffic Statistics
- Microburst Detection
- Subscription for Feed Updates
- Simplified Feed Management