Are you thinking about deploying a NetFlow Analyzer for network traffic analysis? Here are some of the top reasons to collect NetFlow. If you are in the market for a NetFlow or sFlow reporting tool, this list of 10 reasons should help you with your decision. Read more »
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Thanks to Jimmy D, our renowned International Sales Channel Manager, we have a proven solution for monitoring NetFlow traffic for home users.
A situation arose for Jim where his wife and daughter would be in Florida caring for his parents while he was still here in Maine. The geek that he is, he didn’t want distance to keep them apart.
So he decided to provide voice, video, and network monitoring while they were in Florida. To achieve this, he decided to set up a small embedded server rack in his parents’ Florida home. This would allow for VoIP, Video, network traffic monitoring, and a web server.
The following article, “Scrutinizer Brings Flow Analytics to SMBs“, written by David Diaz, was recently featured on TechCrunchIT.
David points out that with the low initial cost for Scrutinizer NetFlow & sFlow Analyzer, it is a very affordable Flow Analytics solution for small and medium-sized businesses.
This flow analysis tool can also be deployed centrally and accessed globally via the web interface. What this means is that one install of Scrutinizer can provide network management information for your entire network and accessible by everyone on the network management team, regardless of geographical location.
Thinking outside of the box can produce some innovative ideas.
While the network maps in Scrutinizer can make the traffic flow on your network easier to visualize and congested links quicker to spot, adding more visual definition to your maps will make them more user friendly and understandable by more members of your organization.
So how do you spice up your NetFlow data and breathe some life into your network utilization maps? Try combining a tool created for home design with a network monitoring tool to create incredible network maps.
If you put a price tag on network monitoring for your organization, what would it be? $10,000? $100,000? $1,000,000?
And what needs to be included in that price? Staff to support the network? Network Monitoring hardware and software? Office space to house the staff and equipment?
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Scrutinizer NetFlow & sFlow Analyzer from Plixer International can support NetStream packets, developed by Huawei-3Com Co., Ltd (H3C).
Huawei-3Com Co., Ltd (H3C) began operations as a joint venture between Huawei and 3Com in November 2003. In 2006, they officially went their separate ways, with 3Com buying out Huawei’s share in H3C. H3C, as 3Com’s presence in China, continued to prosper, until the non-compete clause that Huawei agreed to ended.
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Need to find a certain host IP or application on your network? Do you have a user on your network who is violating network policies and you need to provide proof of that to management? Or do you suspect someone is using an application not allowed on your network? Using the searching utility in this network traffic analyzer, you can quickly find the offender, and more.
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Canadian lawmakers are debating network neutrality as it reviews industry comments submitted in response to its 
hearings last month on the subject. Why is this such a big deal? It is estimated that 80% of Internet traffic is caused by 5% of the population. This 5% is causing all the traffic using P2P applications such as BitTorrent which is optimized in many cases to hog bandwidth.
The Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission is expected in November to issue guidelines for Canadian ISPs on how to manage Internet traffic and congestion. Cable companies and network management software providers issued their comments at the end of July for the CRTC to review. Read more »
OK, let’s say you’ve decided to live a healthier life. You’re exercising regularly, stopped getting drunk every night, and you’re eating healthy. You’ve been eating more salads, almost cut out red meat, and even eating annoyingly healthy desserts, if any. Read more »
This is Brighton. He is currently 3 1/2 years-old and he’s my son. He’s very much like his mother, with a strong will and a fierce determination that will make him successful in about anything he does.
However, that same determination also sometimes makes his parents want to carve their brains out with a spoon.
He’s at that stage where he will repeat the same thing over and over and over and over until everyone immediately stops what they are doing to address his needs.
