Layer7 Networking × Netscout

Intelligence approfondie des paquets et protection DDoS pour les réseaux qui ne peuvent se permettre d'angles morts.

About Netscout

Netscout Systems is the global authority in network visibility, service assurance, and DDoS protection. For over three decades, Netscout has provided the deep packet inspection (DPI) and intelligent data technologies that tier-one service providers, financial institutions, and large enterprises depend on to see, secure, and optimise their networks.

The company's core platforms — nGenius for network performance monitoring and Arbor for DDoS protection — represent the gold standard in their respective domains. nGenius provides wire-level visibility into every transaction, every packet, every flow. Arbor protects the world's largest networks against volumetric and application-layer DDoS attacks, with threat intelligence drawn from monitoring roughly one-third of all global internet traffic.

Netscout's Adaptive Service Intelligence (ASI) technology converts raw packets into smart data — contextual, actionable metadata that enables real-time troubleshooting, capacity planning, security forensics, and service assurance without storing every packet.

Product Capabilities

Why Layer7 Chose Netscout

You cannot secure what you cannot see. This is not a platitude — it is the fundamental truth of network operations. Every firewall rule, every access policy, every microsegmentation strategy depends on accurate knowledge of what is happening on the wire. Netscout provides that visibility at a depth and scale that no other vendor matches.

Layer7 chose Netscout because our clients operate complex, high-throughput networks where blind spots are intolerable. Financial services firms need sub-millisecond transaction visibility. Service providers need DDoS mitigation that activates in seconds, not minutes. Enterprise SOCs need packet-level evidence for incident response. Netscout delivers all three from a single architecture.

Arbor's DDoS protection is particularly critical for our South African client base, where internet-facing infrastructure is increasingly targeted. Layer7 deploys Arbor to protect against attacks that would otherwise saturate links and take services offline — protecting revenue, reputation, and availability.

How Layer7 Delivers Netscout

• nGenius Deployment — Installation and configuration of nGenius Service Assurance across client networks, including InfiniStream appliances, vSTREAM virtual sensors, and the nGeniusONE management platform.

• Arbor DDoS Protection — Design and deployment of Arbor Sightline and TMS (Threat Mitigation System) for always-on or on-demand DDoS mitigation. Layer7 handles detection tuning, mitigation template design, and integration with upstream providers.

• Network Visibility Architecture — Design of TAP and SPAN infrastructure, packet broker integration, and traffic flow to analytics tools. Ensuring the right data reaches the right tools at the right time.

• Performance Baselining — Establishing application and network performance baselines using nGenius, enabling proactive alerting when service quality degrades.

• Security Forensics Integration — Connecting Netscout visibility data with SIEM and SOAR platforms for packet-level incident investigation and threat hunting.

• Managed Monitoring — Ongoing monitoring, alerting, and reporting from Layer7's operations team, using Netscout data to deliver proactive network health management.