Deployment — NIKSUN

Four ways to deploy · one platform

Same platform. Same single pane. Your choice of footprint.

Pick the deployment that fits your scale, budget, and compliance reality today — and mix or migrate freely as you grow. The experience never changes.

SaaS

NIKSUN Cloud (NCS)

The fastest, most affordable way to get the full NIKSUN platform — fully managed by NIKSUN.

Best for: SMBs & fast starts

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BYO Cloud

Public Cloud

Run NIKSUN inside your own AWS, Azure, GCP, or OCI account, next to the workloads you protect.

Best for: cloud-first teams

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Software

Virtual / Software

Deploy as software on your existing virtualization infrastructure — no new hardware required.

Best for: existing data centers

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Appliance

Hardware

Purpose-built appliances from handheld field units to multi-Tbps, petabyte-scale core platforms.

Best for: high-scale & gov

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☁ NIKSUN Cloud Services

Flagship NIKSUN.
SaaS-simple. SMB-priced.

NIKSUN Cloud Services (NCS) delivers the same enterprise platform trusted by governments and the Fortune 500 — fully hosted and managed by NIKSUN. It's the most affordable, fastest path to Olympus, putting flagship technology within reach of any organization.

✓Fully managed — no hardware, no infrastructure to run
✓Same Maya AI, NKW data lake, and full capability set
✓Subscription pricing built for SMB budgets
✓Start in days, scale on demand

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Managed by NIKSUN

AWSEC2 · VPC

AzureVNet

GCPVPC

OCIVCN

⬡ Public Cloud

Your cloud account.
NIKSUN inside it.

Deploy Olympus directly into your own AWS, Azure, GCP, or OCI tenancy — right beside the workloads, VPCs, and traffic you need to see. Gain full packet-to-application visibility in the cloud without backhauling data or losing control of it.

✓Runs in your tenancy — your data stays in your account
✓Native visibility into cloud & hybrid traffic
✓Elastic scale with your cloud footprint
✓One pane of glass across cloud, virtual, & hardware

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▦ Virtual / Software

Software-defined.
On the infrastructure you own.

Deploy NIKSUN as software on your existing virtualization stack — VMware, KVM, Hyper-V, Nutanix, and more. Stand up the full platform on the compute you already run, with no new hardware to procure.

✓Runs on your hypervisor of choice
✓No new hardware — use existing capacity
✓Ideal for distributed & virtualized data centers
✓Same NKW, Maya AI, and capability set

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NIKSUN Olympusvirtual

HypervisorVMware · KVM · Hyper-V

Your serversx86 compute

▤ Hardware Appliances

Boundless performance.
Palm-sized to petabyte-scale.

Purpose-built appliances pairing NIKSUN hardware and software for deep forensic analysis at multi-Tbps speeds — capable of fully offline, air-gapped operation.

Tactical / handheld Clusterable data-center core · multi-Tbps · multi-PB

DoDIN APLCommon CriteriaRedundant power & storageAir-gap capableUp to multi-PB retention

1G · 10G · 40G · 100G

NIKSUN appliances capture across 1G, 10G, 40G, and 100G interfaces — single- or multi-port — and cluster to multi-Tbps capture with multi-petabyte retention.

Handheld · Briefcase

NIKSUN RP (Puma) portable appliance running the Olympus investigation console

Portables

Tactical troubleshooting & forensics, anywhere

Palm-sized and briefcase-portable options deliver NIKSUN's full software suite from any location — for tactical troubleshooting and security forensics on the go.

RH Series · Intelli

Solid-state, palm-sized, enterprise-grade performance for low-bandwidth tactical, remote, or branch sites. Fits in a backpack.

RP Series · Puma

Powerful portable with built-in screen. Records via TAP or SPAN for low-to-mid bandwidth needs.

1U · Half-depth

Atom

Compact solutions for edge locations

Half-depth 1U appliances delivering enterprise-grade performance with an excellent cost-to-performance ratio for PAN/LAN environments and micro-data centers.

A1000 Series · half 1U

Captures via passive TAPs or SPAN across copper or fiber. Compact, affordable, remotely managed.

1U · Full-depth

Branch

Small office & multi-tenant needs

Full-depth 1U appliances that increase processing and storage at branch and lower-traffic locations — yet still support NetDetectorLive and live session reconstruction.

B1000 Series · 1U

SSD, HDD, or NVMe drives, scaling to high-speed flows via copper or fiber in a small form factor.

1U+ · Scalable

Core

High-end appliances for core networks

High-performance 1U–5U appliances that extend NIKSUN's technology to core networks, with dense storage and scalable compute up to carrier-grade speeds and multi-petabyte capacity.

C1000 Series · 1U

Denser storage for small-to-mid-range core traffic in a 1U form factor.

C2000 Series · 2U

Distribution-layer monitoring via TAP or SPAN.

C3000 Series · 3U

Expandable storage for high-performance multi-gigabit monitoring.

C5000 Series · 5U

Multi-core, multi-threaded; multi-gigabit to carrier-grade with multi-PB storage.

2U+ · data center

Stratus

Core network & large data-center scale

2U+ platforms for core networks and large data centers — expandable to multi-petabytes of retention with ingest scaling to multi-Tbps.

S2000 Series · 2U

Compact 2U with best-in-class query response and full line-rate capture.

S4000 Series · Supreme Eagle

Scales to multi-Tbps with 60% less power and 80% less rack space.

S5000 Series · compact PB

High-speed compute and up to petabytes of storage in a compact footprint.

S6000 Series · flagship

Fastest processing and SSD query response with petabytes of expandable storage.

2U+ · Clusterable

Extensible Storage

Cluster to grow retention, whenever & wherever

Qualified, validated storage arrays that cluster with NIKSUN Core and Stratus appliances to expand data retention on demand — from hundreds of terabytes to petabytes per array. A scalable, flexible approach to growing storage needs.

Narwhal · 2U

High-density array with IPMI and redundant hot-swap PSU/fans.

ORCA-II · 3U

High-availability array with full redundancy.

Mako · 4U

Full Disk Encryption with lights-out Fault Management.

Blue Whale II · 4U

High-availability subsystem with hot-swap, field-replaceable units.

Cluster1 node

NIKSUN node

▤ Clusterable by design

Start with one. Scale to a cluster.

Every rack-mountable NIKSUN appliance clusters into a single logical system. Add nodes to grow capture and retention — to multi-Tbps and multi-PB — with zero rip-and-replace. Scroll to stack the rack.

Capture throughput→ multi-Tbps

Retention→ multi-PB

Resilienceredundant & HA

One platform · your deployment

Not sure which fits?
We'll help you choose.

Tell us your scale, budget, and compliance needs — we'll map the right deployment, from NCS to a Tbps-scale appliance cluster.

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