The changing educational setting:
The Educational Institutes today are at the crossroads of a massive technology sweep. Never before has imparting education been so technology intensive. Wi-Fi enabled campuses and Classrooms are the order of the day. More and more classrooms are going online. Thanks to streaming video - No longer do the staff and student need to be present in the same place, not even at the same time.
Against this backdrop, the importance of having the campus WAN network up and running becomes critical. As a network administrator you have to ensure that your staff and students are able to access the resource( any URL/Podcast/webcast) at anytime they need - and in a way that the overall bandwidth consumption does not shoot through the roof, resulting in a total network fiasco. You need to have a means of being alerted upon any threshold violations, so that you don't end up monitoring the network activity all the time.
Also a tab on any unwarranted access to unnecessary/objectionable content can be easily had. This in a big way free-up your network for more vital activities. To Illustrate: Blocking all access to downloading music/video content off the web could result in a substantial bandwidth saving for someone wanting to access the online exam system/audio-video tutorials in the university intranet from a remote location.
ManageEngine NetFlow Analyzer :
ManageEngine NetFlow Analyzer helps you do all the above and more at ease. With NetFlow Analyzer your campus network comes under your control - literally.
ManageEngine NetFlow Analyzer has been succesfully deployed in various educational institutions of the world (universities, county colleges, private colleges etc). Visit our Customer List page to know a sample of institutions that have chosen to go with us.
S.Sankara Subramanian
NetFlow Analyzer
AdventNet Inc.,
so its been a long time now since we started interacting - over mail, support calls, demo sessions, forum postings, and blogs - however much the modern day technologies may bring us closer yet the joy of meeting one in person is something unique.
But come to think of this, with thousands of you guys(Our Valuable Customers) scattered across the globe we just can't take time off to meet up with each of you. Instead, to start with, we are uploading a photo of a section of our team
Who is Who : Starting from Left -> Saran, Sathish, SivaGanesh, Sankar, Kiran, Raghu, Senthil
This is an attempt from us to bring a better visibility - a visibility like never before, if we could term it so. ;)
There are many other folks whom you can get to see in the postings made earlier.
Regards
S.Sankara Subramanian
NetFlow Analyzer
AdventNet Inc.,
Have you been in the dark, unaware of the possibilities of leveraging the capabilities of Cisco's(R) NetFlow and NBAR technologies ?
We at NetFlow Analyzer are sure those of you who have been regularly following our Blogs, Forums and Product releases would sure be well informed of the benefits of this awesome duo.
In any case here is an interesting article from Brad Reese in Network World. In the article, Brad Reese in discussing about the technology also mentions about NetFlow Analyzer.
Also, this article gives a good opportunity for all of you to know who Raghu( Product Manager - NetFlow Analyzer ) is - (many of you might have interacted with him over phone and mail but haven't got to see him yet) - it has a snap of his !
Check out the article here :
http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/21726
S.Sankara Subramanian
NetFlow Analyzer
AdventNet Inc.,
PS:
If there are other innovative ways in which you have been using these technologies do let us know ! we would love to feature them here in our blogs.
Few more snaps of our trip in addition to the ones posted earlier:
Cheers
Sankar
The NetFlow Analyzer team was away at Munnar, in God's Own Country - Kerala during Oct 6-8.
Here are the snaps:
Sankar
9 Key Points for the CIO/Network Manager to consider in choosing the right Network Traffic Analyzis/Bandwidth Monitoring solution
1) Consider what kind of solution it is ? Hardware based / Probe based / Packet sniffing based / Pure-Software Based
2) Choosing the vendor - See beyond today
a.Do not buy a solution considering today?s requirement alone.
b.Typically opting for a company that has a whole range of network-management-allied products is a very good decision. In addition to monitoring your whole enterprise network bandwidth, you may want to monitor the performance of applications in your network or analyze your firewall logs etc tomorrow
c.Visualize the future needs of your network and chose the competent vendor
3) Consider the cost of the solution ? demand to know the likely cash out-flow to own the solution over atleast a 5-year horizon
a.Clarify the cost associated with software upgrades
b.Costs associated with having a personnel deployed in case of eventualities
c.Cost associated with having a telephonic support etc.
4) See the cash-outlay Vs ROI metrics.
a.A product that far outweighs the ROI it generates is never the right solution.
b.Bandwidth Monitoring is a function that is meant to add value to the enterprise? bottom line. It should not end-up casting the Network department the ?cost-center? image
5)Evaluate the kind of support you are likely to get
a.Often more than the number of PhDs / Masters a company has on its rolls it is the number of responsive staff available that makes difference to you as the end-customer
6)Demand to know the legacy of the company/product
a.Typically a company that has been in the business for more than a decade and has managed to remain profitable is a good choice to go with
b.Typically a product / base-product that has had the support of thousands of customers from across the globe is a testimony to strong engineering ability and a rock-solid support
c.Factor the above two points when you have narrowed down to almost two vendors/solutions
7)Do an evaluation at your pace
a.Seek extension of trial license as and when you need
b.A company that does not oblige to extend license or has cumbersome procedures may not be the best bet going forward
8)The ?Forums? is the ultimate index
a.See how active and vibrant the forums is
b.It is an index of how popular and how responsive the product and the product teams respectively are
9)Finally don?t fall prey to consultants and marketing gimmicks!
S.Sankara Subramanian
NetFlow Analyzer
AdventNet Inc.,
Yes, you read it right - no typo in there.
The network is where the future lies and every enterprise that wants to hang around, will need to have a strong ( if not a very strong) enterprise network, going forward. and so the name "N-e-t-e-r-p-r-i-s-e".
The Enterprise is dead; Welcome the Neterprise !
Smart, isn't that ? :wink: Feel free to use the term. :)
and just a mention in the passing :
glad at having coined this term, just wanted to do a check to be sure -i was the first. Heck, see here, :x
think of anything and atleast a dozen folks would have already worked on that - Cant help that :?
Anyways, take care of your neterprise and Bye for Now,
S.Sankara Subramanian
NetFlow Analyzer
AdventNet Inc.,
We are excited to announce the immediate availability of support for IPFIX-beta(Nortel Device flow export) in NetFlow Analyzer.
We would be very glad to make it available to anyone interested in testing it. Please do mail us at support@netflowanalyzer.com for us to make it available to you.
Come, be part of the privileged group of people to try the IPFIX feature, in NetFlow Analyzer, before anyone else :)
Best Regards
S.Sankara Subramanian
NetFlow Analyzer
We are very glad to announce the General Availability of our NetFlow Analyzer 6.0. Thanks to the encouraging response during the beta phase, we could gather lots of suggestions from many of you folks. We have tried to bring in the various suggestions and feedbacks and we only hope you find the product deliver greater value than ever before.
We have also released the service-pack with which you could migrate to the latest release 6.0 GA ( Build 6001 ). You can download the product here
Best Regards
S.Sankara Subramanian
Sometime back there was this blog that heralded the coming of subsequent blogs on themes beyond flows. But then we couldnt keep up the word as we went through a hectic phase.
At the end of it we announced the release of our NetFlow Analyzer Enterprise Edition. If you manage over 1000 interfaces this is your best bet. Also, if you are a large enterprise with distributed networks you should go with it. Give a try today !
Very recently we also released our NFA 6 Beta. This comes power packed with a whole lot of features many of you wanted. Know more about NFA 6 beta
This should explain our no blog-posts in a long time now - but watch out we just got back and will get hammering you with our writings pretty soon :lol:
