Physical 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.

Photon Sensor Performance Specifications

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

New physical sensors are shipped as modular sensors on Ubuntu 22.04.

Sensor Supported
Monitoring Ports

Aggregate Network Capture Throughput
(All Features Enabled)

 Per-Port Log Forwarding (Events per Second) Log Forwarder Workers

Photon 160

1 GbE

Up to 500 Mbps

3984

8
Photon 250 1 GbE

Up to 2.6 Gbps

 4789 16

Photon 400

10 GbE & 1 GbE

Up to 7.0 Gbps

16206 (10 GbE port)

32

Performance statistics assume 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 DPI Modular Sensor with integrated DPI

Network Capture Throughput (All Features Enabled)*

Up to 500 Mbps

Up to 2.6 Gbps

Up to 7.0 Gbps

Network Interfaces

6 x RJ45 (1Gbps)

4 x GbE RJ45
MAC 2 x GbE RJ45
2 x GbE SFP

6 x GbE RJ45
2 x 10G SFP+

CPUs

4 physical cores

16 physical cores

16 physical cores

Memory

16 GB (DDR4 2667 MHz)

64 GB (2 x 32 GB) (DDR4 2666 MHz)

64 GB (4 x 16 GB) (DDR4 3200 MHz)

Storage

238 GB

512 GB

480 GB

Console Access

RJ45 Console (COM) Port

RJ45 Console Port

VGA port and USB keyboard or iDRAC Virtual Console (when licensed from Dell)

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

AC 100-240V
DC 12V, 60W

AC 100-240V
DC 12V, 60W

AC 100-240v
DC 240v, 800W

Stellar Cyber has the discretion to modify external connectors, size, weight, and power of any model noted above to accommodate enhancements that do not impact performance.