IOTA Network Probe

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Innovating the way you troubleshoot networks

Real-time analysis, anywhere you want

IOTA is a complete network analysis and troubleshooting solution that is designed for use in small, mid-size enterprises, remote sites and small data centers. IOTA can be deployed at any key capture points in the network for monitoring real-time and historical network traffic without affecting the network performance or security. IOTA 10G+ is fitted with GPS and PPS ports to provide advanced timestamping synchronization features.

IOTA provides a fast and accurate overview of the network traffic without the need for on-site technical staff, making it easy to quickly identify and resolve network application issues. This allows you to greatly optimize your MTTR and keep your network performance up.

Innovating the way you troubleshoot networks

Real-time analysis, anywhere you want

IOTA is a complete network analysis and troubleshooting solution that is designed for use in small, mid-size enterprises, remote sites and small data centers. IOTA can be deployed at any key capture points in the network for monitoring real-time and historical network traffic without affecting the network performance or security. IOTA 10G+ is fitted with GPS and PPS ports to provide advanced timestamping synchronization features.

IOTA provides a fast and accurate overview of the network traffic without the need for on-site technical staff, making it easy to quickly identify and resolve network application issues. This allows you to greatly optimize your MTTR and keep your network performance up.

Profitap IOTA All-in-one Network Analysis Tool

IOTA HELPS YOU:

 

KEEP AN EYE ON YOUR NETWORK

Monitor hosts, top talkers, bandwidth, latency, TCP, UDP, IPv4, IPv6, VLAN, DNS and many more at a glance, using a premade set of comprehensive dashboards.

MONITOR NETWORK PERFORMANCE

Keep a close eye on the most essential performance metrics, retransmissions, packet loss, latency, throughput, availability, connectivity and more.

TRACK DOWN SECURITY FLAWS AND PROTOCOL/APPLICATION USAGE

Full visibility over 3000+ applications and protocols (DNS, HTTP, SSH, Office 365, Skype, Whatsapp, Netflix, etc.)

MONITOR REMOTE SITES & BRANCH OFFICES

Fully managed over HTTPS and with built-in VPN, it offers easy deployment and usage in any network topology.

IOTA Dashboards

HOW IT WORKS:

 

QUICK SEARCH DATABASE

Explore long-term dataset accumulated over days, weeks or months.

CUSTOMIZABLE DASHBOARDS

Dashboards can be created, modified and share across multi-users in a web-based environment.

HIGHLY EFFICIENT METADATA COLLECTION

Up to 100 KPIs are extracted from packets, TCP/UDP flow and flow behavior. Flow metadata can reduce the volume of data by 90% compared to the original PCAP trace.

DRILL DOWN TO HIGH FIDELITY PCAP TRACE

The capture engine embeds line-rate hardware features like packet slicing, filtering and timestamping.

TECHNICAL DETAILS:

 

1TB/2TB ENCRYPTED REMOVABLE STORAGE

PCAP collection, metadata database and system are stored on a removable encrypted SSD (AES 256-bit).

GPS/PPS TIMING PORTS

GPS/PPS input for advanced timestamping and accurate latency measurement.

DATA DIODE ISOLATION

The monitored network is isolated from the management interface to avoid any risk of injection of MITM attack through the device.

FLEXIBLE POWERING OPTIONS

IOTA can be powered from a 30 W PoE+ switch (over the management port) and 12 VDC or 24 VDC.

CONFIGURABLE IN DUAL OUT-OF-BAND OR IN-LINE MODE

All IOTA models can be configured in either out-of-band or in-line mode. The IOTA 10G+ embeds a high-performance failure safe TAP with PoE passthrough.

FAST DRILL-DOWN WITH IOTA DASHBOARDS

The Overview dashboard gives you a quick initial overview of what is happening on your network by displaying the interfaces involved, who is talking to whom, and how much. The flow diagram is a visual representation of the relationships between interfaces, which helps you to easily identify the top talkers. Clicking an IP address in this diagram creates a dashboard filter, resulting in the dashboard only displaying data involving this IP address. The network traffic charts displaying bandwidth usage and number of new flows over time are a great way to identify potential time ranges of interest. Clicking and dragging on either chart zooms in on the selected time range.

Where the Overview dashboard shows who is talking to whom, the Application Overview dashboard shows what they are talking about. The data in this dashboard is categorized by application type, and by application. The graph can be changed to display latency, flow count, and payload size. This dashboard is a great starting point when analyzing application issues. It gives a clear overview of which components may be slowing your applications down. It can also help finding unexpected services, and services consuming too much bandwidth.

Provides an overview of recorded VoIP sessions, with the possibility to dig down on SIP and RTP metrics and details. The VoIP Sessions table provides a complete view of detected sessions with cross-correlation between control and data traffic. From this table, selecting a specific VoIP session is possible, allowing inspection of session-specific details in the various dashboard sections. The call flow is visualized in VoIP and SIP flow diagrams, to help get a better overview of the call details. The dashboard also provides MOS scores for a quick indication of call quality.

This dashboard provides an overview of HTTP traffic, to help monitor HTTP application traffic, distinguish between different return codes, see each different flow, and filter on them.

The Local Assets dashboard lists speaking interfaces present in the local network, based on the canonical private IP address ranges (RFC 1918 & RFC 4193). It helps to keep track of devices in the local network, and also unveil potentially unwanted devices. The bandwidth usage for the selected time range and filters is displayed on a chart. The DHCP host names of devices are displayed whenever possible. Clicking an IP address in the list navigates to the Host Details dashboard for that address.

The microburst dashboard provides an overview of traffic microbursts measured on the IOTA interfaces. The dashboard automatically selects the two interfaces as inbound and outbound and displays the microburst data for each of them separately in a chart. This dashboard can be used to get a general overview of microburst events and intensity, and then drill down on the time range where a microburst higher than usual was detected. The benefit of this dashboard is the ability to detect and filter on intense, short living microburst spikes that may not be visible on dashboards displaying average traffic volume, which helps identify buffer overflow issues. When the user has discovered the impacted time range, they can move to a different dashboard to perform further troubleshooting.

The Modbus Overview dashboard displays Modbus protocol message distribution over time, allowing you to troubleshoot industrial networks which contain Modbus traffic. The servers and clients that are part of the Modbus network are listed in a table.

This dashboard provides an overview of TLS-encrypted connections and whether they are considered safe, weak, or unsafe, based on the TLS version and cipher used. Connection information can be sorted and filtered to visualize and identify potentially problematic connections.

This dashboard gives an overview of TCP-related statistics, such as client IP, server IP, host names, iRTT, and more, such as an analysis of TCP connection completeness. Various graphs are available, providing different perspectives on the TCP traffic and offering full diagnostics of the TCP protocol. You can easily filter on common TCP-related attributes via the filter menu. Color coding of TCP analysis states helps give an at-a-glance view of the data transmission process.

The Bandwidth dashboard provides an overview of the traffic bandwidth measured on the IOTA interfaces. The dashboard automatically selects the two interfaces as inbound and outbound and displays the bandwidth data for each of them separately in a chart. This dashboard can be used to get a general overview of bandwidth usage over time, and then drill down on the time ranges where peaks of bandwidth usage have occurred. When the user has discovered an impacted time range, they can move to a different dashboard to perform further troubleshooting.

The DNS overview dashboard gives you an overview of DNS queries over time, top servers, and top queries by type. This dashboard helps troubleshooting starting from a specific domain and then following the associated flows. This gives a general idea of how your queries are spread out over time.

The Host Details dashboard is available every time an IP address is clicked. This dashboard provides a deep-dive into network activity specific to the filtered IP, and all the metrics you can use to analyze network issues based on geolocation, TCP data, protocol and application information, and flows.

The Flow Details dashboard is accessible by clicking the Inspect (🔍) button on any of the flow tables located in various dashboards. This visualization is useful for inspecting the details of one specific traffic flow. The top-right diagram will display the different protocol headers used in the communication and their main fields. On the left side, there are more in-depth details on packets exchanged inside the communication flow. The dashboard also provides traffic metrics like total payload, bandwidth usage, and the number of packets.

When a capture & analysis session is started, it will appear in this dashboard. This makes it easy to review or go back to an earlier session instantly. It’s also possible to find different analysis sessions by time. A “session” represents a self-standing correlation domain. A timeout determines whether captured and analyzed data is still part of the current session, or if it belongs in a new session.

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IOTA use case

Application Latency Analysis

More and more applications are provided by cloud providers as SaaS from globally distributed data centers. Normally, this offers easy application deployment. However, it also brings new error sources that can affect application performance. For example, latency issues can lead to sluggish applications and even timeouts in those applications. With packet loss, similar behavior occurs, and retransmissions are visible.

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IOTA use case

Troubleshooting DNS

There is a saying: “It’s not DNS. There is no way it’s DNS. It was DNS”. This makes it clear that DNS is an integral part of IT infra-structure services and can exhibit a wide variety of error patterns. For example, DNS can lead to applications not starting or starting with delays. Sometimes, this is due to incorrectly stored DNS records or performance bottlenecks on DNS servers. However, overly restrictive firewalls cause problems in some cases since some system integrators only support DNS over UDP. With large responses, however, DNS switches to TCP. Certificate errors in browsers can also indicate incorrect DNS entries.

Specifications

    Connectors

  • 2 x SFP+ in-line/SPAN
  • 1 x RJ45 management
  • 1 x USB 3.0 type A
  • 2 x 12 VDC / 2.5 A power input (12V model)
  • 2 x 24-48 VDC power (24V model)
  • 1 x SMA female (PPS)
  • 1 x SMA female (GPS)

    Accessories

  • 1 x 12 VDC PSU (12V model)
  • 1 x DC terminal block (24V model)
  • 1 x 1.5 m RJ45 cable
  • GPS/GLONASS Antena

    Dimensions (WxDxH)

  • 105 x 164 x 38 mm
  • 4.13 x 6.46 x 1.5 in

    Weight

  • 600 g
  • 1.32 lb

    Speed

  • 1G / 10G

    Storage

  • 1 TB or 2 TB internal swappable SSD

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