Michael Patterson : Advanced NetFlow Traffic Analysis
Michael Patterson
Founder and Product manager for Plixer's Scrutinizer NetFlow and sFlow Analyzer as well as Flow Analytics.

February 2012

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Monitoring Video Performance with NetFlow

February 19, 2012

Three years ago I was listening to John Chambers - CEO of Cisco Systems, proclaim that video was going to be the rage. I snickered and though it would be long time before anyone will be monitoring video performance with NetFlow. Well, here we are and John Chambers was right. My daughter is the one that made me realize why video vs. only voice will continue to grow.

End to End Visibility : Network Flow Path

February 6, 2012

Gaining end to end visibility into the path a flow took through the network can be an easy thing to do if you have the right network traffic monitoring tool.   Because multiple paths exist between devices, leveraging traceroute or routed topology information may not provide the exact path taken by an end to end flow.  To help address this mystery, a couple of utilities exist on the market today.

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