# Deep Network Observability for Automotive Manufacturing IT/OT _OEM Plants · Tier-1 Suppliers · Hybrid Cloud · Corporate IT_ 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. ### 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 Networks](/content/solutions/nozomi-networks/index.html) ### IoT/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 Centrix](/content/solutions/armis/index.html) ### Device 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 + Forescout](/content/solutions/forescout/index.html) ### DPU-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 Architecture](/content/products/nvidia-bluefield-3-dpu/index.html) ## AUTOMOTIVE 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.