Esphion EX and SP appliances are designed to complement existing security elements, introducing a first and final line of defence. As a complementary security layer, Esphion extends the life-span of existing security and infrastructure investments, thereby not only improving uptime, availability and security, but also the ROI of those investments.

Esphion is deployed either via network taps or via spanning ports transparently on the network - avoiding any latency or points of failure while remaining safe from attack. Fine grained analysis of each IP packet and traffic patterns are conducted in real time up to gigabit speeds. Storage and recording features allow forensic examination of historical traffic and anomaly data.

Esphion solutions provide for the intelligent analysis of IP network packets on a per end-user or user definable group basis (layers 4 to 7), delivering intelligence through reports that cater for all levels of management. Extensive bandwidth, traffic and IP statistics can be manipulated from a dataset of approximately 500,000 IP packet statistics. The unique architecture of the underlying platform allows IP packet statistics to be gathered and analyzed at multi-gigabit speeds, even under heavy traffic loading conditions. These IP packet statistics can be queried instantly in "real-time" or at a later stage, providing the most comprehensive, in-depth traffic analysis and management.

Esphion's network anomaly detection and visibility architecture can be deployed as either stand-alone or distributed solution at the network core or at access switches or routers, depending upon the outcomes needed. In distributed mode, Intelligent neural agents are deployed at key intelligence gathering points within the network including access links, in or before mission critical subnets in the network. Multiple intelligent neural agent's are aggregated by a single controller, which provides a unified reporting infrastructure and multi-user, secure GUI.