Hardware Photon Sensor Specifications

This article describes both the performance you can expect from your physical Stellar Cyber Photon sensors, as well as details on their physical provisioning.

Modular Sensor Performance Specifications

The table below summarizes the performance you can expect from your physical Photon sensors.

Starting with the 4.3.7 release, new physical sensors are shipped as modular sensors on Ubuntu 22.04.

Sensor	Ingestion (Mbps)	Log Forwarding (Events per Second)	Log Forwarder Workers
Photon 160	1000	3984	8
Photon 250	1000	4789	16
Photon 400	10,000	16206	32

This performance assumes a span port and log and packet forwarding.

Photon Sensor Physical Specifications

The table below provides details on the physical provisioning of Stellar Cyber Photon sensors:

	PHOTON-160	PHOTON-250	PHOTON-400
Sensor Type	Modular Sensor with integrated deep packet inspection (DPI)	Modular Sensor with integrated deep packet inspection (DPI)	Modular Sensor with integrated deep packet inspection (DPI)
CPU Hyperthreads	8	16	32
Network Capture Throughput	1 Gigabit per second (Up to 500 Mbps with full feature set enabled)	Up to 8 Gigabits (1+ Gbps with full feature set enabled)	Up to 10 Gigabits (1+ Gbps with full feature set enabled)
DPI Throughput	Up to 500 Mbps	Up to 3 Gbps	Up to 6 Gbps
Network Interfaces	6 x RJ45 (1Gbps)	4 x GbE RJ45 Intel® SoC Integrated MAC 2 x GbE RJ45 Intel® i350 2 x GbE SFP Intel® i350	6 x GbE RJ45 2 x 10G SFP+
Storage for Data Buffering	238 GB	512 GB	480 GB
External Connectors	3 x USB 3.0, 3 x USB 2.0 HDMI and Serial Console (COM) ports	2 x USB 2.0	3 x USB 2.0
Size	7.32" x 4.98" x 2.60"	9.10” x 7.87” x 1.73”	17.08” x 1.68” x 28.13”
Weight	3.025 lbs	2.65 lbs	38.9 lbs
Power	DC 12 Volts (AC 100~240V @50~60 Hz external)	DC 12 Volts (AC 100~240V @50~60 Hz external)	AC 100~240V @50~60 Hz