A couple of years ago we were in the market for a new switch. A NetFlow capable Cisco switch would have been nice, but we didn’t want to spend that kind of money on a test environment. A customer told us about the Nortel switch exporting IPFIX and we got pretty excited. After a fair amount of investigation, we figured out that we would have to pay a bit more for the router license key which enabled the NetFlow/IPFIX. We didn’t mind the additional cost as the price was palatable.

Just when we were ready to pull the trigger we decided to ask about the IPFIX support. We wanted to confirm that it does 100% sampling as we wanted to replace our sFlow switch which only does packet sampling. “Can I get it in writing” saved us from making a mistake. Read more »
Michael Patterson
Scrutinizer Product Manager