From global pioneers to budding startups, almost every organization around the globe has adopted a mandatory work-from-home routine due to the COVID-19 outbreak. This shift...
NetFlow on FortiOS
Fortigate now supports NetFlow export by extending its monitoring capabilities to routers and switches. FortiOS 5.2 comes with several features, such as NetFlow V9 export for...
DDoS attack detection using NetFlow Analyzer
A distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack is a flood of illegitimate traffic that is sent to a network resource from an IP address or a group...
Gaining deeper visibility on QoS hierarchy with NetFlow Analyzer
Quality of service (QoS) has been a hot technology since its inception. QoS combines multiple technologies that help in building good traffic patterns on a...
Analyzing ART using NetFlow Analyzer
Network administrators evaluate an application’s performance by measuring response time, round trip time, packet loss, and delay. However, this method poses certain limitations because you...
Monitoring NetFlow-Lite data in new Cisco 2900 and 4900 Series switches using NetFlow Analyzer
Using NetFlow technology, network administrators can efficiently monitor bandwidth usage for capacity planning and resource allocation. Until now, NetFlow monitoring was supported only in Cisco...
Application visibility and control for better bandwidth analysis
Traditionally, using NetFlow to perform bandwidth analysis on application visibility was primarily based on port and protocol information. The monitoring software identifies applications as HTTP,...
Quality of service: A good traffic engineering component
Today, we commonly see IT budget reduction, cost cutting, and barriers for potential network circuit upgrades. In this tough economic situation, the motive of a...
Identifying Layer 7 application traffic to make your WAN hum
Network administrators around the globe are very concerned about the type of traffic that is exiting their network. They want their critical business application over the WAN...