Many software netflow solutions (such as nProbe) users, realized that running a probe on a PC (or any other common hardware) is not always the best choice for several reasons:
- PCs have moving parts that can break making the probe unavailable.
- PCs are large, need monitors and keyboards, whereas probes often need to be deployed on places where there is not much space available.
- Administering PCs is not cheap and they require the purchase of an OS, its installation and maintenance.
- In large networks divided in several trunks it is necessary to have several probes each analyzing a trunk.
This requires that multiple hosts running nProbe are deployed across the network. - The cost (for both hardware and maintenance) is not neglectable in particular if several probes need to be deployed.
If you’re a user that does not want to bother with installing software probes on a PC or that wants to have an hardware-based, scalable and purpose-built solution then you are probably a nBox user where you have a low-cost small factor computer with no moving parts and nProbe on board easy to administer using the embedded web interface.

Open Source Technologies
nBox relies on Open Source high-performance technologies for capturing and processing traffic, including our PF_RING framework and our nDPI Deep Packet Inspection framework, delivering Line-Rate packet processing up to 100 Gbit/s.
High Performance, Small Form Factor
Our nBox NetFlow and Recorder appliances are able to process up to 100 Gbps fully leveraging on multi-core architectures to scale with the performance, and fit in 1U form factor rackmount.

at a glance
Key Features
- Optimized to analyse up to 100 Gbit/s line-rate with no packet loss
- Based on the nProbe (up to 10 Gbit) and nProbe Cento (up to 100 Gbit) softwares
- Layer-7 traffic classification based on nDPI
- Many export formats (NetFlow, Kafka, ClickHouse, ZMQ, CSV, JSON, and many others)
Specifications
Tech Specs
- Linux
- Web GUI available through any HTML5-ready browser
- TLS/HTTPS support
- nboxui
- nProbe / nProbe Cento
- ntopng (optional)
- 19″ Rack-mount
- Dell-based systems include up to 3 years on-site hardware guarantee
models
Choose Your Model
Different models have different performance.
- Web-based UI
- nProbe Pro
- ntopng Pro (optional)
- PF_RING ZC drivers included
- Form Factor: 1U
- Monitoring port options:
- 1 Gbit Copper
- 2.5 Gbit/s
- Web-based UI
- nProbe Pro
- ntopng Enterprise L (optional)
- PF_RING ZC drivers included
- Form Factor: 1U
- Monitoring port options:
- 2 x 10 Gbit Copper/SFP
- 2 x 10 Gbit / 8 Mpps
- Web-based UI
- nProbe Pro (10 Gbit)
- nProbe Cento M (10/25/40 Gbit) (optional)
- ntopng Enterprise L (optional)
- PF_RING ZC drivers included
- Form Factor: 1U
- Monitoring port options:
- 2 x 10/25/40 Gbit Copper/(Q)SFP
- 2 x 40 Gbit/s / 60 Mpps
- Web-based UI
- nProbe Cento
- ntopng Enterprise L (optional)
- PF_RING ZC drivers included
- Form Factor: 1U
- Monitoring port options:
- 1 x 100 QSFP
- 100 Gbit/s / 100+Mpps