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.

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Enterprise NetFlow Suggestions

February 20, 2018

In searching for the next flow collection system that will support your organization, most results will turn up solutions claiming to support the consumption of millions of flows/second. For the most part, I think there is some truth to these claims but, when the system is trialed, the limitations become obvious. 

Enterprise NetFlow Collections

It’s one thing to collect high volume NetFlow and quite another to report on it and that’s really where the rub lies.  The amount of engineering necessary to collect millions of flows per second and write them to some type of backend really isn’t all that hard for a seasoned developer. 

High Volume NetFlow Collector : Enterprise Traffic Analysis

January 3, 2012

A high volume NetFlow collector is a must for many service providers and universities. Because of the nature of the type of Internet traffic created by these types of organizations, enormous amounts of flows are created. People visiting internet search sites such as Google or those of us clicking on all the different links in facebook or youtube often end up creating a new flow with each click.

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