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Viavi Solutions

The second generation of the enterprise packet capture platform, taking retention past thirty days of complete packet data across eight capture points.

Product lines and other names: Observer, APEX, GigaStor

Left to right is time. Each row is one of the 7 disciplines Viavi Solutions carried, ordered so kindred disciplines sit next to each other rather than alphabetically — a landscape only means anything if neighboring rows belong together. Height is the work running in that domain in that year, weighted by what failure would have cost — life-safety ×3, a statutory obligation ×2.2, the estate itself ×1.5, an evaluation ×1. Every project declares which of those it was, so each ridge traces to an entry you can open and disagree with. Only the work that named this manufacturer is counted, so this is the shape of what it carried rather than of the record around it. Height and color are on the record-wide scale rather than this page’s own, so a modest estate draws a modest landscape and any two of these pages can be read against each other.

Observer with Observer APEX, succeeding the NetScout GigaStor deployment of 2009 on the same eight capture points. Full packet capture answers the question monitoring cannot: not that something broke, but what was on the wire in the seconds before, during and after. Also carried as a partner platform on the consulting side.

The same instrument turned out to be the starting point for a discipline nobody was thinking about when the first probes went in. Post-quantum work is an inventory problem before it is a cryptography problem, and an estate’s documentation describes the cryptography it was designed to use rather than the cryptography it is actually negotiating. Packet analysis is what closes that gap, which makes this the first instrument on the post-quantum program as well as the last word on an incident.

Where it appears

Declared on each entry rather than listed here, so this page cannot drift from the work it describes. What each entry named is quoted as it stands, with how much of that project rested on it and what stands behind the claim beside it. The first of those drives the height of the surface above.

NRI North America (formerly Core BTS)

  • Post-Quantum Cryptography ProgramProposed December 2025 · accepted January 2026 · began February 2026Observer packet analysis — where the cryptographic inventory startsthe project had no deliverable without itdocumented at the time
  • Vendor and Partner Program2024–2026Observer performance and packet analysisone of the platforms it was built ondocumented at the time

City of Jacksonville

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