How to avoid IPFIX or NetFlow Sampling Vs. sFlow
Posted in application performance monitoring, Netflow Billing, netflow sampling, sFlow on November 16th, 2012 by SteveSampling traffic in an effort to represent the overall traffic pattern in theory is a sound idea. In fact, for the most part, I agree that statistically, sampling can be as accurate as rolling a dice 1296 times and expecting exactly 216 matches for each of the 6 possible outcomes. Well, I doubt it. When counting massive quantities of data and accuracy matters, we need an alternate solution to sampling but, what is it?
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