Cisco music sensation Mix Master Mitch has released his latest video titled: Cisco Medianet: Application Performance Monitoring with NetFlow .  This newest video includes a larger cast and BIG stars including Mix Master Mitch (Mitch Wilson), Kristin Korda, Tyler Beck, Evan Van Orsdel, Rick Hustus and Paul Lablond.  It even has a cameo appearance from the Plixer President and CEO – Michael Patterson.

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Many Network Management Solutions on the market lack support for sFlow, NetFlow and IPFIX reporting and threat detection.  If you are looking for EM7 NetFlow support, our NetFlow solution easily integrates with EM7 from ScienceLogic and we do it in 3 ways to provide the best network traffic monitoring solution.
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Most businesses want to take network traffic management to the next step and luckily the IT Gurus within these same companies are already familiar with NetFlow but, what about Flexible NetFlow?  In order to get deeper details on not just the volume of critical apps on the network but, also the performance of the applications, NetFlow has to be taken to the next level.  It is time to mix the export of Cisco NBAR with Performance Monitoring NetFlow or Medianet exports.

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If you are looking to invest in Cisco Prime Assurance Manager because you want to monitor your Cisco MediaNet with NetFlow, don’t overlook the 3rd party alternatives.   We worked extensively with Cisco to build the best Flexible NetFlow reporting tool.  In fact, you will find the leader in NetFlow within the Cisco “Medianet 2.2 Deployment Guide”.  Our NetFlow Analyzer can be found on page 7,8,10 & 11.

Before you invest, spend some time comparing the reports available in the two solutions:

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Cisco Performance Routing isn’t your grandfather’s routing. Cisco Performance routing (PfR for short) considers a particular path’s traffic characteristics when determining the best path for the conversation. Imagine being able to use actual delay, packet loss, MOS, jitter and more to give your router a better idea of the traffic conditions. With that data it can make a smart decision on how to route the conversation traffic. Add to that the ability to report on this with something simple like Netflow and you have solution that sounds to good to be true. Well, it isn’t!

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In this webcast “The Future of Advanced NetFlow: New Elements, End-To-End Visibility and Network Security Threats,” Michael Patterson the co-founder of Plixer will cover how the latest exports and elements from Cisco, SonicWALL, Palo Alto Networks and others. The session covers leveraging NetFlow and IPFIX data to detect network threats, improve cloud-based services and reclaim bandwidth consumed by mobile devices on the network. See the plixer study press release for complete details.

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NetFlow VoIP Monitoring often requires keeping track of QoS or DSCP values. Here are a few statistics that should be gathered when performing network traffic monitoring with Flexible NetFlow.

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On my way to the airport tomorrow headed for London and CiscoLive 2012 to show off Scrutinizer v9 and our new video monitoring (e.g. Webex) traffic reporting.  You will find updates on the plixer facebook wall. This new version brings several new NetFlow reports:

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Monitoring Cisco Telepresence with NetFlow or in this case Flexible NetFlow is a straight forward process if you have to important factors in place.

1. Configure the Cisco performance reporting. This gets the router to start monitoring Cisco Telepresence.  To do this, the configuration of the router must include certain commands.  Contact us for the command set.
2. Monitoring Telepresence requires a top notch Cisco Performance Reporting tool.

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As we approach the end of 2011, I’d like to take this time to recap some major advances in NetFlow & IPFIX reporting.

Several notable NetFlow developments for 2011 from Cisco Networks are:

• Medianet Network Performance Monitoring
• Cisco TrustSec (CTS) NetFlow support
• Cisco Smart Logging and Telemetry (SLT)

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