Niagara Networks

Niagara Networks builds the visibility infrastructure that sits between network traffic and the security tools meant to inspect it: network TAPs, bypass switches, and packet brokers that aggregate, filter, deduplicate, decrypt (via TLS decryption), and route traffic from physical, virtual, and cloud sources to the right IDS/IPS, DLP, forensics, or observability tool. Without this layer, security teams either over-provision expensive inline appliances or lose visibility into encrypted and distributed traffic; Niagara’s pitch is a programmable, high-performance visibility layer that makes existing security tools more efficient rather than replacing them.

Founded in 2017 and headquartered in San Jose, California, Niagara Networks has grown organically to roughly 65-70 employees without disclosed institutional funding, according to available company-tracking data. It has built out its product line to include cloud and virtual TAPs for hybrid and multi-cloud environments, and in a notable recent move partnered with Trellix to integrate its Hybrid Bypass, TLS decryption, and Advanced Packet Broker technology directly with Trellix’s threat-detection platform.

The network packet-broker and visibility category is mature and includes established competitors such as Gigamon and Keysight/Ixia, so Niagara competes primarily on openness, price, and specific feature integrations like the Trellix partnership rather than on a fundamentally new architecture.