PacketViper Compute Edge - Extending Enterprise Security & Operations to Every Critical Infrastructure Edge

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Executive Summary

PacketViper Compute Edge is a unified infrastructure platform that extends PacketViper's core security fabric to every edge location—from unmanaged remote industrial sites to IT closets, data centers, and colocation facilities. It solves a fundamental infrastructure gap: how to deploy sophisticated security monitoring, threat detection, and operational applications to locations that historically lacked compute infrastructure or management capability.
 
The platform is built into the PacketViper core fabric itself, not bolted on as an afterthought. This means Compute Edge deployments benefit from PacketViper's deep security expertise, threat intelligence, and architectural integration—making it suitable for an extraordinarily wide range of environments: industrial control systems, smart city infrastructure, traffic management systems, building automation, IT infrastructure, and enterprise data centers

The Universal Infrastructure Problem

The Edge Deployment Challenge

 

Modern organizations face an infrastructure paradox

  • Smart Cities operate hundreds of connected devices with minimal local security
  • Traffic Control Systems manage critical transportation without compute or monitoring
  • Industrial sites (substations, pump stations, refineries) lack visibility and threat detection
  • Building Automation systems operate siloed from security infrastructure
  • IT closets at remote locations have no monitoring or access control
  • Data centers and colos need distributed security enforcement across multiple independent facilities

The Historical Limitation: Each of these environments was forced to choose

  • Risk it (deploy without comprehensive security)
  • Accept high cost (send all traffic to central facilities over expensive WAN)
  • Suffer latency (all monitoring dependent on network connectivity)
  • Duplicate effort (separate security infrastructure for each environment type)

The PacketViper Solution

A single, unified Compute Edge platform embedded in PacketViper's core fabric that works across all these environments, providing consistent security, monitoring, and operational capabilities