ExaScale OS™ Integration Case Studies: Elevating Legacy Packet Ecosystems to Exascale

December 1, 2025 | Sly Technologies Inc.

In the world of network visibility, your hardware investments—from high-speed packet brokers and deep inspection probes to always-on recorders and metadata engines—are the backbone of enterprise security and performance. But as traffic volumes explode toward exascale (think 800 Gbps+ sustained across global fabrics), siloed appliances struggle with federation, AI-driven hunting, and zero-trust retention. Enter ExaScale OS™: a software-only overlay that federates these assets via SILO adapters, projecting them into a unified ExaFS virtual filesystem. No rip-and-replace. No CapEx waste. Just enhanced scale, smarts, and revenue.

Drawing from real-world integrations in the $4.42B network traffic analysis market, these case studies illustrate how ExaScale unlocks petabyte-scale querying, reduces MTTR by 80%, and turns aging probes into AI-ready nervous systems. We've anonymized partners to respect ongoing discussions, but the patterns are proven: packet brokers feeding global views, probes enabling legal-admissible exports, and IDS engines blending with ExaInsight for anomaly detection.

Case Study 1: Global Telco Unifies East-West Visibility in Hybrid 5G Cores

Challenge: A Tier-1 carrier (operating in 50+ countries) faced blind spots in east-west traffic across NFV/SD-WAN deployments. Legacy probes captured 400 Gbps line-rate but couldn't federate across regions without massive data duplication—costing $2M/year in storage alone. Compliance (GDPR, LI) demanded 7-year retention, but siloed exports delayed fraud hunts by days.

ExaScale Integration: Deployed SILO federation via REST APIs from existing packet brokers and probes. ExaScale's ExaNerve™ (our optional 1U control plane) orchestrated discovery across 1,200 nodes, projecting broker metadata and probe PCAPs into /silos/vendor=telco-probe/scope=capture/region=global/. Zero-copy ingestion via DPDK (leveraging jNetworks SDK) sharded by time[hour] and obfuscated PII at level 18.

Results:

• Scale: 1.6 Tbps federated capture without packet loss; 99% storage reduction via lean views (headers-only slicing).

• Security/Performance: ExaQL macros correlated flows for fraud patterns, cutting MTTR from 48 hours to 5 minutes. AI (ExaInsight) auto-tuned IDS rules, detecting 25% more anomalies.

• Business Impact: Preserved $50M CapEx on probes; enabled 20% expansion (new sites fed into fabric). Telco reported 40% OpEx savings on exports, with ExaScale attach generating $1.2M recurring via Pro tier upsells.

Key ExaQL Snippet (used in daily hunts):

This mirrors integrations where virtual taps and NPBs eliminate east-west gaps in SDDCs.

Case Study 2: Fortune 50 Financial Firm Accelerates Threat Hunting with Always-On Recording

Challenge: A multinational bank with 1,400+ branches struggled with ad-hoc captures on 100 Gbps probes—missing precursors to ransomware (e.g., C2 beacons). Existing recorders stored 12 PB but lacked global indexing, forcing manual Wireshark dives that took 72+ hours per incident.

ExaScale Integration: SILO adapters wrapped probe APIs (/api/search/pcap/download) for air-gapped federation. ExaScale projected timestamped PCAPs into /silos/silo=bank-evidence/scope=storage/retention=7y/, with ExaGuard enforcing immutable ledgers. Hosted Suricata rules blended with native Zeek logs for enriched alerts.

Results:

• Forensics: Sub-second searches across petabytes; pivot from alerts to full streams via UID-linked metadata, resolving 90% of hunts in <30 minutes.

• Compliance: Chain-of-custody proofs for LI exports reduced audit times by 60%; zero-trust levels (0-20) ensured sovereignty across EU/US.

• Business Impact: ROI on $100M probe fleet tripled via expansion—added 500 nodes without forklift. Bottom-line boost: $3M/year from faster MTTR, plus 25% sensor efficiency via de-dup/slicing.

Key ExaQL Snippet (for beacon detection):

Inspired by DoD integrations where Zeek-based NDR scaled to 35 Gbps campuses without drops.

Case Study 3: Healthcare Provider Ensures Telemedicine QoS with Metadata Federation

Challenge: A U.S. health system (serving 3M+ patients) saw jitter/latency spikes in telemedicine over VPNs, but metadata from visibility platforms was siloed—delaying root-cause analysis by weeks. Probes handled 100 Gbps but couldn't correlate with cloud flows.

ExaScale Integration: Catalog-driven SILO (/api/v1/visibility/export) federated metrics into /silos/scope=metadata/region=us/, with ExaNet enabling 800 Gbps zero-copy forwarding. ExaQL reassembled TCP streams for QoS macros, integrating with existing NPM tools.

Results:

• Performance: 88% latency reduction via anomaly alerts; global live views (FROM scope=metadata/live) pinpointed VPN bottlenecks in real-time.

• Expansion: Scaled from 50 to 500 sites by feeding new probes into the fabric—preserving $20M CapEx while adding AI tuning.

• Business Impact: MTTR dropped 70%, enabling 30% more telehealth sessions; $800K savings on probes via load-balanced federation.

Key ExaQL Snippet (QoS monitoring):

Echoes cases where NPM + full capture addressed cloud/container challenges.

Case Study 4: Defense Contractor Builds Air-Gapped Fabric for Classified Networks

Challenge: A DoD prime (with SCIF deployments) needed evidentiary PCAPs across air-gapped probes, but federation was impossible without risking sovereignty. 300-node clusters hit 200 Gbps walls, delaying threat hunts.

ExaScale Integration: Offline USB catalogs created SILO for probes (/fabric/search), projecting into /silos/region=classified/scope=storage/airgap=true/. ExaNerve handled federation with cryptographic audits.

Results:

• Security: 100% admissibility via ExaLedger; retroactive Suricata scans on stored shards caught 50% more threats.

• Scale: 1 Tbps+ via sharded views; 99% size reduction for lean forensics.

• Business Impact: $5M CapEx preserved; expanded to 1,000 nodes, boosting contract wins by 40% with "exascale-ready" proofs.

Key ExaQL Snippet (classified hunt):

Aligns with gov integrations for east-west monitoring in virtualized DCs.

Why ExaScale Wins: Symbiosis at Exascale

These integrations prove ExaScale isn't replacement—it's elevation. We preserve your CapEx (e.g., $50M+ fleets), enable massive expansion (e.g., 20x nodes), and attach software revenue (Pro/Enterprise tiers at $249K-$999K). Our ExaNerve™ is the only "hardware" we touch—a lightweight orchestrator for global sync.

Ready to federate your ecosystem? Email partner@slytechs.com for a free SILO POC. Let's turn silos into fabrics.

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