In the world of network management, what you can’t see can hurt you. Bandwidth hogs, stealthy malware, and cryptic application slowdowns often lurk beneath the surface. This is where Netflow analysis software becomes indispensable.
Enable Netflow on one edge router today and point it to a free trial of any major tool. You will be shocked at what you discover within the first hour.
Originally developed by Cisco, Netflow is a protocol that collects and monitors network traffic metadata. Netflow analysis software takes that raw data and turns it into actionable intelligence. Think of it as a call detail record for your network . While a packet sniffer (like Wireshark) reads the content of every conversation, Netflow analyzes the metadata —who talked to whom, for how long, how much data was sent, and which protocol was used.
