How It Works

Overview

21Packets is the world’s largest elastic, consumption-based network fabric that enables businesses to securely connect their people, applications, data, and infrastructure—no matter their location or underlying platform.
By eliminating network bottlenecks and ISP-based monitoring, 21Packets provides unparalleled security, performance, and flexibility without requiring specialized hardware or dedicated networking teams.

The Problem

Most networking solutions today—SASE, ZTNA, SD-WAN, and IPsec—were not designed for modern, global, cloud-first environments. They create network congestion, require expensive hardware, and depend on ISP-controlled routing, which leads to:

Bottlenecks and latency issues that slow down business-critical applications.

High costs and complexity, requiring specialized engineers to maintain and troubleshoot.

ISP interference, where network traffic is throttled, deprioritized, or blocked, causing unpredictable performance and security risks.

Security vulnerabilities, especially as quantum computing threatens traditional encryption methods.

The 21Packets Solution

21Packets solves these issues with a global, quantum-safe, software-defined networking fabric that is:
Elastic & Consumption-Based
Instantly scales up or down based on demand, eliminating the need for expensive hardware investments.
Quantum-Safe Encryption
Protects traffic against current and future cyber threats, ensuring long-term data security.
ISP-Agnostic & Stealth-Encrypted
Prevents throttling, surveillance, and traffic monitoring, regardless of geography.
Failover-Ready & Always-On
Ensures zero-downtime networking, automatically adapting to changing traffic conditions.
Failover-Ready & Always-On
Ensures zero-downtime networking, automatically adapting to changing traffic conditions.

How 21Packets Works

The Elastic Network Fabric
The Elastic Network Fabric is made up of Endlets—small, highly efficient routing and service functions that deploy anywhere: bare metal, VMs, Docker, Kubernetes, or cloud functions.

Endlets are lightweight and self-optimizing, ensuring seamless scalability and efficiency.

They dynamically route traffic using 21Packets’ proprietary Slip-Routing technology, optimizing for latency, bandwidth, and security.

Slip-Routing & DEFT (Dynamically Expedited Fabric Tunnel)
Unlike traditional networking, which follows static routes that often result in congestion and packet loss, 21Packets uses Slip-Routing to:

Continuously analyze global network conditions to find the optimal path for data transmission.

Dynamically shift (or "slip") traffic onto the least congested routes in real time, reducing latency and jitter.

Bypass ISP bottlenecks and deprioritization tactics, ensuring fast, secure, and private data flow.

Quantum-Safe Encryption & Stealth Networking
Traditional encryption methods (such as AES) are vulnerable to emerging quantum computing threats. 21Packets replaces these outdated security measures with:

Quantum-safe encryption protocols that prevent "Harvest Now, Decrypt Later" attacks.

Stealth networking, which hides traffic from ISPs, governments, and malicious actors, ensuring complete privacy.

Built-in Zero Trust Segmentation, enforcing least-privilege access across all network traffic.

Deployment in Any Environment
21Packets is cloud-native, on-prem-ready, and edge-compatible, making it effortless to deploy in any environment:

Global Enterprise Connectivity

Secure multi-cloud, hybrid, and remote workforce networking

Industrial & IoT Networks

Always-on security for manufacturing, oil & gas, and logistics

Financial Services

Secure, failover-ready banking and payment networks.

Healthcare & Telemedicine

Healthcare & Telemedicine – HIPAA-compliant, encrypted patient data and communications.

Government & Defense

Quantum-resistant encryption for mission-critical operations.