THE PLATFORM

The Operating System
for Packets

Vantage unifies capture, storage, and analysis across your entire infrastructure — from a single analyst's workstation to a globally federated network of thousands of nodes — under one query language, one security model, and zero data movement.

800 Gbps
Sustained capture rate
0–20
Field-level security
1 Query Language
From node to global federation
No Movement
Analysis runs where packets live

Every network tool is an island.
Vantage is the OS underneath them all.

Wireshark, your SIEM, your IDS, your SOAR — they all need packets, but they each manage capture, storage, and access differently. Vantage replaces that fragmentation with a single platform: continuous capture at line rate, exascale storage, and a query language that makes global infrastructure feel like a local session.

One query language

Vantage Query controls everything — nodes, clusters, captures, storage, security policies, and compliance reports — from a single session. What works on one node works unchanged across a global federation.

Data stays where it lives

No moving petabytes to a central store. Analysis runs at the edge, on the node where packets were captured. Queries cross regions; raw data never has to.

Security built into the data model

Security levels 0–20 are enforced at the field level, at capture time — not as a filter layer bolted on top. PII obfuscation, air-gap isolation, and role-based access are first-class properties of every packet store.

Layer over your existing investment

Vantage imports your existing Gigamon taps, Cubro probes, and Endace capture appliances as SILOs. You don't replace your hardware — you add intelligence on top of it. Migration to Vantage appliances happens on your timeline, not ours.

Three products. One platform.

Each product is useful standalone today. Together, they form the full Vantage stack.

Lynx

Multi-user, remote-first packet analysis. Your analysts see the same session, the same markers, the same bookmarks — in real time. Data stays on the capture server; your browser gets the pixels.

Capture server (remote)
  └── Lynx daemon
        ├── Packet index
        ├── Flow markers
        ├── Alert overlays
        └── Security level 0–20

Browser (local)
  └── Pixels only — no raw data
      ├── Multi-user session
      └── Real-time collaboration
Lynx →

Sentinel

Always-on capture daemon for the network edge. Captures at 800 Gbps with DPDK or Napatech, indexes everything continuously, and serves multiple Lynx clients without interrupting capture.

Network interface (line rate)
  └── Sentinel daemon
        ├── DPDK / Napatech / libpcap
        ├── Continuous indexing
        ├── BPF filters + macros
        └── Quarry write path

Clients
  ├── Lynx (live view)
  ├── quarry (query + manage)
  └── Admin panel (status)
Sentinel →

Quarry

Exascale packet storage with a virtual filesystem interface. Mount 100 EB of packet history as a local directory. Wireshark, tcpdump, and any POSIX tool just work — on data they could never otherwise touch.

Quarry store (100 EB)
  └── quarry / virtual filesystem mount
        ├── /captures/today/
        ├── /captures/last-30d/
        └── /views/lean-headers/

Any POSIX tool
  ├── $ wireshark /captures/...
  ├── $ tcpdump -r /views/...
  └── $ jupyter + scapy
Quarry →

One language. Every node.

Vantage Query and the Virtual Filesystem (quarry) are the two interfaces to the entire platform. What you learn on a single node works identically at global scale.

quarry — Vantage Query
-- Capture on this node
quarry> CAPTURE ALL TRAFFIC
     STORE AS "incident-2026"
     ENCRYPT LEVEL 12
     INDEX WITH six

-- Hunt across it
quarry> FIND FLOWS WHERE
     http.status == 200
     AND meta.stats.requests > 50
     DURING LAST 24h

-- Auto-respond to PII
quarry> ON PACKET WHERE
     meta.tuple CONTAINS "creditcard"
     DO ENCRYPT LEVEL 18
     AND NOTIFY [email protected]

-- Scale to 3,900 nodes:
-- exact same syntax

quarry controls nodes, clusters, captures, storage, security policies, compliance schedules, and real-time automation — from a single interactive session or a script. The syntax is identical whether you're managing one node or a global federation.

quarry — Virtual Filesystem
-- Mount the platform as a filesystem
$ quarry mount --cluster global /net

-- Wireshark opens 100 EB directly
$ wireshark /net/captures/today/eth0.pcap

-- tcpdump on a filtered view
$ tcpdump -r /net/views/lean-headers/

-- Jupyter + Scapy, no download needed
-- from scapy.all import *
-- pkts = rdpcap("/net/views/...")

-- Create a lean analyst view
quarry> CREATE VIEW "analyst-safe" AS
     FROM STORAGE "incident-2026"
     HEADERS ONLY
     DECAP all
     ENCRYPT LEVEL 8

quarry mounts any Vantage store as a POSIX directory. Every tool your team already knows works instantly — on data that never left the capture node. Views project subsets, strip payloads, and enforce security levels before any tool touches the data.

Not a rip-and-replace.
A layer on top of what you have.

Most enterprises have years of investment in Gigamon, Cubro, Endace, and other capture infrastructure. Vantage doesn't ask you to abandon that. It imports your existing appliances as SILOs — first-class nodes in the Vantage fabric — and immediately adds query, security, and analytics capabilities on top of what you already own.

                      YOUR EXISTING INFRASTRUCTURE
  ┌──────────────┐  ┌──────────────┐   ┌──────────────┐   ┌──────────────┐
  │  Gigamon TAP │  │ Cubro Probe  │   │Endace Capture│   │  Bare Metal  │
  └──────┬───────┘  └──────┬───────┘   └──────┬───────┘   └──────┬───────┘
         │                 │                  │                  │
         └─────────────────┴──────────────────┴──────────────────┘
                                     │
                              SILO IMPORT LAYER
                         (no hardware change needed)
                                     │
  ┌──────────────────────────────────▼──────────────────────────────────────┐
  │                        VANTAGE PLATFORM                                 │
  │  quarry> CAPTURE  ·  FIND  ·  STORE  ·  ENCRYPT  ·  SCHEDULE  ·  NOTIFY    │
  │  quarry mount --cluster global /net                                       │
  │                                                                         │
  │  Lynx ──── Sentinel ──── Quarry ──── Vantage Query                      │
  └─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
                                     │
                    ADD VANTAGE APPLIANCES OVER TIME
                    (when maximum performance is needed)
              YOUR EXISTING INFRASTRUCTURE
  ┌──────────┐  ┌──────────────┐  ┌──────────────┐
  │  Gigamon │  │ Cubro Probe  │  │Endace Capture│
  └──────┬───┘  └───────┬──────┘  └──────┬───────┘
         │              │                │
         └──────────────┴────────────────┘
                        │
                 SILO IMPORT LAYER
            (no hardware change needed)
                        │
┌───────────────────────▼─────────────────────────────┐
│                VANTAGE PLATFORM                     │
│  quarry> CAPTURE·FIND·STORE·ENCRYPT·SCHEDULE·NOTIFY    │
│  quarry mount --cluster global /net                   │
│                                                     │
│  Lynx ──── Sentinel ──── Quarry ──── Vantage Query  │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
                        │
        ADD VANTAGE APPLIANCES OVER TIME
      (when maximum performance is needed)

Import existing captures

Existing pcap stores, ring buffers, and capture archives become queryable Vantage SILOs immediately. No re-ingestion, no re-indexing of already-written data.

No process change required

Your analysts keep using Wireshark, your SIEM keeps pulling logs, your IDS keeps alerting. Vantage layers underneath and in between — enriching every tool without replacing any of them.

Migrate on your timeline

Replace aging appliances with Vantage nodes as they reach end-of-life. Each new node adds capacity and capability without disrupting anything already running.

Start simple. Scale when you're ready.

Each phase is a complete, production-ready deployment. You don't need Phase 3 to get value from Phase 1.

AVAILABLE NOW

Single Node

Standalone deployment on a single server or workstation. Full capture, storage, analysis, and query — no cluster required.

  • Lynx — multi-user packet analysis
  • Sentinel — always-on capture daemon
  • Quarry — virtual filesystem packet storage
  • Vantage Query control plane (single node)
  • Security levels 0–20
  • SILO import from existing hardware

Multi-Node Cluster

Scale across multiple nodes in a single cluster. Distributed capture, shared storage, cross-node queries — same Vantage Query syntax.

  • Multi-node cluster management
  • Distributed Vantage Query
  • Cross-node Quarry federation
  • Cluster-level security policies
  • Load-balanced capture paths
  • High-availability failover

Global Federation

Multi-region, multi-cluster deployment with a central control plane, data sovereignty enforcement, and air-gap support.

  • Global federation & control plane
  • Multi-region data sovereignty
  • Air-gapped classified regions
  • Cross-region Vantage Query
  • Global compliance automation
  • ExaLedger chain-of-custody

Start with a single node today. The same Vantage Query commands you learn in Phase 1 work unchanged in Phase 3. No rewrites. No migration. Just scale.

jNetWorks SDK — the engine underneath

Every Vantage product runs on jNetWorks — 800 Gbps line-rate packet capture for Java, with zero hot-path allocations, three backends, and full L2–L7 dissection. The same SDK is available to your engineering team to build custom integrations.

Want to go deeper?

We're happy to walk through the architecture, answer technical questions, or tailor a demo to your environment.