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, local file assembly, and log and packet forwarding.

Photon Sensor Physical Specifications

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

  PHOTON-100

PHOTON-150

PHOTON-160

 PHOTON-250 PHOTON-300

PHOTON-400
Sensor Type Security and Network Sensor capability with integrated deep packet inspection (DPI) Security and Network Sensor capability with integrated deep packet inspection (DPI) Security and Network Sensor capability with integrated deep packet inspection (DPI) Security and Network Sensor capability with integrated deep packet inspection (DPI) Security and Network Sensor capability with integrated deep packet inspection (DPI)

Security and Network Sensor capability with integrated deep packet inspection (DPI)

CPU Hyperthreads

4

 

8

16

16

32

Network Capture Throughput

1 Gigabit per second
(Up to 200 Mbps with full feature set enabled)

1 Gigabit per second
(Up to 500 Mbps with full feature set enabled)

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)

Up to 10 Gigabits
(1+ Gbps with full feature set enabled)

DPI Throughput

Up to 200 Mbps

Up to 500 Mbps

Up to 500 Mbps

Up to 3 Gbps

Up to 3 Gbps

Up to 6 Gbps

Network Interfaces

4 x RJ45 (100Mbps / 1Gbps)

6 x RJ45 (1Gbps)

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+

6 x GbE RJ45
2 x 10G SFP+

Storage for Data Buffering

64 GB

256 GB

238 GB

512 GB

480 GB

480 GB

External Connectors

1 x USB 3.0, HDMI

4 x USB 3.0, HDMI

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

3 x USB 2.0

Size

4.53” x 4.23” x 1.54”

7.32” x 4.98” x 2.60”

7.32" x 4.98" x 2.60"

9.10” x 7.87” x 1.73”

17.08” x 1.68” x 28.13”

17.08” x 1.68” x 28.13”

Weight

1.1 lbs

2.87 lbs

3.025 lbs

2.65 lbs

38.9 lbs

38.9 lbs
Power DC 12 Volts

DC 12Volts
(AC 100~240V @50~60 Hz external)

DC 12Volts
(AC 100~240V @50~60 Hz external)

 AC 100~240V @50~60 Hz AC 100~240V @50~60 Hz

AC 100~240V @50~60 Hz