If you’re a user that wants to have an hardware-based, scalable, optimised, and purpose-built solution, without bothering with software installation, then you are probably a nBox user. nBox Mini is a low-cost, small form factor, appliance specifically designed for high-speed traffic analysis and flow collection, with ntopng (and optionally nProbe) on board, easy to administer using the embedded web interface.
The nBox Mini appliance comes with 4 GbE or 2.5 GbE interfaces:
- A Management interface to administer the box, access the Web interface for traffic analysis, and optionally collect Netflow.
- A Capture interface to monitor the Mirror or SPAN port from your switch.
- A Bridge with 2 interfaces to deploy the appliance inline as a bump in the wire (transparent bridge) and avoid additional TAP devices.

Open Source Technologies
nBox relies on Open Source high-performance technologies, including the PF_RING packet capture framework for capturing and processing traffic at high speed, the nDPI Deep Packet Inspection framework for traffic classification, and the ntopng traffic analyser.

at a glance
Key Features
- Show realtime network traffic, active hosts and communications, with focus on traffic visibility and cybersecurity
- Discover Layer-7 application protocols (Facebook, YouTube, BitTorrent, etc) by leveraging on nDPI Deep Packet Inspection technology
- Sort network traffic according to many criteria including IP address, L7 application protocol, throughput
- Produce historical traffic reports to analyse past network activities and have control of network usage over time
- Monitor even low level network metrics including traffic throughput, network and application latencies, TCP retransmissions, out of order packets, packet lost
- Store on ClickHouse persistent traffic statistics to allow future explorations and post-mortem analyses
- Geolocate and overlay hosts in a geographical map
- Full support for IPv4 and IPv6
- Flexible alerts handling
- SNMP v1/v2c/v3 support and continuous monitoring of SNMP devices
- Behavioural traffic analyses such as lateral movements and periodic traffic detection
- REST API to ease integrations with third-parties
- nBox UI to manage the appliance using a user-friendly web interface
Specifications
Tech Specs
- Linux
- Web GUI available through any HTML5-ready browser
- TLS/HTTPS support
- nboxui
- ntopng
- nProbe (optional)
- Small form factor PC
- Depending on the reseller
models
Choose Your Model
Different models have different capacity.
Jet4
- Web-based UI
- ntopng Enterprise M (included)
- ClickHouse (optional)
- nProbe Pro (optional)
- Form factor: 109.2 x 125 x 39.5 mm
- Monitoring port options:
- 3x 2.5GbE Intel Copper
- 2.5 Gbit/s