Deep Network Observability for Automotive Manufacturing IT/OT
Aviz delivers software-defined, vendor-neutral observability across the converged automotive IT/OT fabric - from plant floor robotics and PLCs to corporate IT and hybrid cloud workloads. Up to 50% lower TCO, packet-level evidence across every major industrial protocol, DPU-accelerated to 400G.
Challenge
Automotive plants got smarter. The visibility tools did not.
Modern automotive plants run flat, converged networks - IT, OT, MES, robotics, paint shops, and assembly all share one fabric. Appliance-based packet brokers built for a single-vendor world cannot keep up. Aviz can.
PLANT FLOOR
Multi-vendor OT running Profinet, EtherCAT, OPC UA, Modbus, S7comm, EtherNet/IP. Traditional packet brokers do not deeply inspect industrial protocols.
IT/OT CONVERGENCE
Corporate IT and plant floor OT share the same physical network. Lateral movement from IT to OT is the most common path to production shutdown.
RANSOMWARE
Honda (2020), Toyota suppliers (2022), JLR (2025). East-West visibility is the only honest path to early detection.
UNMANAGED & IoT DEVICES
Robotics, vision systems, paint shop controllers, plant sensors. Many cannot host agents. Network-layer visibility is the only path.
HYBRID CLOUD
Workloads now span data centers, multiple clouds, and Kubernetes. Centralized appliances cannot follow them.
The Aviz Deep Network Observability (DNO) Architecture
A software-defined pipeline that converts raw automotive manufacturing traffic into structured, asset-aware intelligence - across plant floor OT, corporate IT, and hybrid cloud environments.
Figure 1: Aviz Deep Network Observability Intelligent Fabric for Automotive Manufacturing
Aggregate
Capture traffic across plant floor (Profinet, EtherCAT, OPC UA, Modbus, S7comm, EtherNet/IP), corporate IT, and hybrid cloud into one logical pipeline.
Optimize
Filter, load-balance, and strip headers. Stop paying downstream tools to process duplicate or irrelevant bytes.
Enrich
Deep Packet Inspection produces structured metadata for every industrial protocol - PLC commands, OPC UA reads/writes, Modbus function codes, S7comm operations - bound to asset identity. Same DPI applied to IT traffic, so one pipeline serves both worlds.
DPU-Native Acceleration
Line-rate 400G on commodity x86. No proprietary ASICs, no appliance refresh cycle.
Distribute
Stream enriched metadata to OT security platforms, NDR/XDR, SIEM, and observability tools. Open formats (JSON, Kafka), every tool simultaneously.
Use Cases & Joint Solutions
The intelligent traffic foundation for the leading OT/IoT platforms.
Aviz Deep Network Observability is the visibility foundation behind the most respected OT, IoT, and asset intelligence platforms - delivering optimized, deduplicated, normalized, and enriched traffic at the right fidelity, the right scale, and the right cost.
Unified OT/IT Visibility & Threat Detection
Aviz + Nozomi Networks Guardian
Aviz aggregates, optimizes, and enriches IT and OT traffic before it reaches Nozomi Guardian - enabling real-time asset discovery, behavioral anomaly detection, and threat identification across industrial control systems, plant floors, and converged networks.
Read the joint solution brief → Aviz + Nozomi NetworksIoT/OT Asset Intelligence & Compliance
Aviz + Armis Centrix
Aviz delivers packet-derived telemetry and continuous compliance evidence to Armis Centrix - powering asset discovery, classification, risk scoring, and continuous audit readiness across managed and unmanaged devices in automotive environments.
Read the joint solution brief → Aviz + Armis CentrixDevice Visibility, Control & Policy Enforcement
Aviz + Forescout
Aviz provides optimized packet streams and enriched network context to Forescout - enabling agentless device discovery, classification, posture assessment, and segmentation policy enforcement across IT, OT, and IoT environments.
Read the joint solution brief → Aviz + ForescoutDPU-Accelerated 400G
Line-rate performance, software economics
DPU offload delivers line-rate throughput on commodity x86. Software-defined deployment across plant data centers, edge sites, and cloud - at a fraction of legacy appliance TCO.
Read the technical brief → Aviz DPU ArchitectureAUTOMOTIVE MANUFACTURING SEGMENTS
One pipeline. Every automotive workload.
Aviz Deep Network Observability adapts to how each automotive segment actually runs - the scale, the architecture, and the specific traffic that matters most.
OEM Plant Networks · Vehicle Manufacturers · Assembly · Paint Shops
Protect every plant floor and assembly line across the OEM footprint. Asset-level OT visibility, IT/OT convergence security, and continuous evidence for production-continuity programs - without disrupting manufacturing operations.
- Multi-protocol DPI across Profinet, EtherCAT, OPC UA, Modbus, S7comm
- IT/OT convergence visibility for ransomware lateral movement detection
- Joint solutions with Armis, Forescout, Nozomi, Claroty, Dragos
- 400G line-rate performance with DPU acceleration
Tier-1 Supplier Plant Networks · Component Manufacturers
Tier-1 suppliers run nearly identical manufacturing environments to their OEM customers. Same flat IT/OT fabric, same multi-vendor OT, same ransomware exposure. Same Aviz foundation, same partner ecosystem.
- Plant floor and component manufacturing visibility
- IT/OT convergence security across supplier networks
- Asset intelligence platform integration for unmanaged devices
- One observability foundation across distributed production sites
Hybrid Cloud & Edge · Multi-Cloud
Modern automotive workloads now span on-premises data centers, multiple public clouds, and Kubernetes clusters. Aviz extends consistent, packet-derived visibility across every environment using SPAN, physical, and virtual taps.
- Hybrid, multi-cloud, and Kubernetes traffic visibility
- VPC-to-VPC and container-to-container flow evidence
- Edge site observability with software-defined deployment
- One traffic foundation across data center, cloud, and edge
Corporate IT · Internal Services · Security Operations
The business side of automotive - internal DNS, DHCP, AAA/RADIUS, corporate IT, and security operations. Same Aviz pipeline, same vendor-neutral approach, same SIEM integration as the plant floor.
- Internal DNS, DHCP, AAA/RADIUS infrastructure visibility
- SIEM-ready packet metadata for security operations
- East-West visibility across corporate IT
- One platform across the entire automotive organization
See it on your plant traffic.
Bring a day of real automotive packet captures to the Aviz ONE Center. We'll stand up Packet Broker, Service Node, and Flow Vision alongside your incumbent - and you'll walk out with a side-by-side comparison of asset metadata, IT/OT convergence visibility, and total cost.