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Find Pokemon GO Network Traffic with NetFlow

Monitor Pokemon Go Network Traffic So there I am monitoring my network with NetFlow and a wild application appears! Pokemon GO hit the scene...

Cisco IWAN Training

One of the biggest questions being asked of IT professionals is, “Are we using our bandwidth to its fullest potential”? Of course we have...

NetFlow DPI Category

If you are a vendor looking to export IPFIX from your appliance, you should know that a big selling feature for you to differentiate...

Juniper vMX IPFIX Support

Recently, we had a customer ask us, “does anyone know if vMX supports NetFlow or IPFIX?” They were trying to configure inline sampling, but...

VMware NSX IPFIX Exports

With the growing number of vendors supporting Flow based technologies, we’re seeing a rise in use cases and possibilities for flow analysis and performance...

Detecting DROWN attack

Chances are that unless you are a hermit or have turned yourself into an air-gapped server, you have heard the term “DROWN” kicking around...

ArcSight NetFlow Integration

Our development team added support for another SIEM solution. Now, not only Splunk and ElasticSearch, but also ArcSight NetFlow Integration is available to Plixer’s customers....

Server Vs Client Response and Duration Times

I’ve been working my way through some new Cisco NetFlow exports recently called ART which stands for Application Response Time. ART is part of...

Free Virtual NetFlow Collector

A good number of evaluators have been asking me what’s the best way to evaluate our free virtual Netflow collector. There is a growing...

How Accurate is Sampled NetFlow?

I have been working with a number of customers recently who are required to use sampled NetFlow because of vendor configuration rules. In just...