Network visibility used to be something firms looked at after the fact – when a ticket escalated, a dashboard went red or postmortem needed evidence. But in high-throughput environments, that model is breaking down. By the time you’re hunting through partial telemetry, the event is over, the root cause is obscured and the next incident is already taking shape.
The core issue isn’t just that networks are growing. It’s that they’re getting faster, more distributed and more operationally consequential. At the same time, enterprises are trying to apply AI to operations and decision-making at scale, compounding the issue.
It’s a combination that raises a hard question: how can organizations ensure comprehensive network visibility that works at the speed the organization actually runs?
This is the context behind Pico’s latest collaboration with Dell: the launch of the Corvil 12000, an appliance designed to provide 200Gbps sustained network capture and real-time analytics. With Dell, we are creating a new benchmark for AI-ready network observability in data-intensive environments.
Why Performance Matters More Than Ever
Traffic growth remains structurally high. Researchers have projected enterprise traffic to continue to grow at double-digit rates (14–22% annually, per one report), reinforcing the need for architectures that can keep pace without compromising accuracy.
At the same time, AI workloads are introducing more latency sensitivity and greater operational dependency on network behavior. Recent research from Cisco suggests that AI assistants, agents and data-driven workloads are all combining to reshape traffic patterns and increasing pressure on enterprise networks.
Second, the cost of getting it wrong is stubbornly high. Uptime Institute survey findings from 2024 show a majority of respondents report their most recent significant outage cost more than $100,000, with a meaningful share over $1 million. In environments where the smallest time increments matter, electronic trading and market data being obvious examples, teams don’t just need alerts. They need evidence: what happened, when it started, what changed immediately before and which flows were affected.
At these speeds, visibility can’t be confined to a set of static dashboards. It has to behave like a data platform that continuously captures what occurred, analyzes it in real time and makes it usable for both humans and machines.
Four non-negotiable requirements:
Sustained capture so investigations aren’t built on missing packets.
Real-time analytics so teams can detect and respond while the event is still unfolding.
Searchability and publishing so operational data can be queried, shared and operationalized across tools and workflows.
AI readiness grounded on data integrity so human chat interactions with the data can better identify root causes, eventually moving to agentic interactions to solve problems.
Commitment to these principles is the only way to shift from mere monitoring to operational integrity.
Pico’s Collaboration with Dell
The Corvil 12000 appliance is built to meet that new bar, delivering continuous packet capture, granular analytics and real-time data publishing. It keeps mission-critical data searchable, usable and AI-ready. Critically, the platform is designed to process and analyze traffic at 200Gbps while supporting real-time publishing of analytics for in-house LLM queries and AI agents, a direct nod to how operational teams are evolving their workflows.
Under the hood, the Corvil 12000 is powered by AMD EPYC processors, emphasizing performance and storage density, rich I/O options and an air-cooled design intended for high-throughput environments. In addition to supporting 200Gbps today, it offers a clear path to 400Gbps in the near future, crucial in a world where AI use is rapidly expanding and throughput requirements are always increasing.
Integrating Dell’s infrastructure enables us to sustain this performance with scalability and efficiency, so clients can process data faster and smarter, thereby increasing insight and resilience.
The overall takeaway: in an era of sustained traffic growth and AI complexity, the limiting factor is increasingly observability architecture. The organizations that can continuously capture and analyze network truth at high speeds, and make that data operational, will be better positioned to reduce outage impact, shorten incident cycles and support the next generation of AI-driven operations. That’s exactly what Pico and Dell are working to make a reality.