Orion NetFlow Traffic Analyzer

Orion NetFlow Traffic Analyzer provides a new level of visibility into network traffic behavior and trends. Network engineers are now able to analyze the full breadth and depth of network traffic, including the most global view of bandwidth consumption, as well as the most local view of current, detailed data measured directly from the devices that create and route the traffic.

By leveraging Cisco's NetFlow protocol to extract data from routers, NetFlow Traffic Analyzer provides an in-depth view into which users and which applications are consuming the most bandwidth. NetFlow Traffic Analyzer converts that data into charts and tables providing network engineers with an easy way to identify and isolate the cause and source of network problems, as well as provide historical performance information to help plan for future growth. Pie charts show the distribution of bandwidth across different types of traffic (e.g., HTTP, FTP, VoIP) and across different users. Line charts show the usage patterns over time. NetFlow Traffic Analyzer can also identify the source of external traffic inbound to the corporate network.

Network engineers rely on NetFlow Traffic Analyzer to help ease day-to-day pains caused by the inability to drill down into network traffic data statistics. Orion NetFlow Traffic Analyzer:

Orion NetFlow Traffic Analyzer Benefits & Features

Orion NetFlow Traffic Analyzer provides many robust benefits with supporting features, but the key differentiators when comparing this product to other offerings in the market include:

Top-to-Bottom Network Analysis

NetFlow Traffic Analyzer enables network engineers to quickly examine Cisco NetFlow traffic data and to drill down into the data to determine traffic by user, application, department, conversation, interface and protocol. The integration with Orion Network Performance Monitor provides users with the deepest drill-down across traffic patterns and into device performance, resulting in unprecedented visibility into usage, performance and availability statistics. Competitive offerings merely infer and estimate utilization data.

Optimized Storage Engine

NetFlow Traffic Analyzer includes a service that intelligently summarizes large amounts of raw NetFlow data, providing users quick access to historical data while minimizing storage costs. The raw data is replaced by the summary, allowing the customer to keep significant amounts of information ready for graphs and tables. In contrast, other products either limit what the users can keep, or they create large, hard-to-manage databases with expensive storage costs.

Enterprise-Ready Management Infrastructure

NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is built on the mature Orion Network Performance Manager platform, providing users with all of the enterprise scalability and stability benefits of Orion. In contrast, other products are relatively new standalone tools with little track record of standing up to the high volume of NetFlow data that will be generated by any but the smallest enterprise.

Other key benefits with supporting features include:

Enable Analytical Capacity Planning

NetFlow Traffic Analyzer highlights trends in network traffic, allowing network staff to anticipate changes in bandwidth needs for different parts of the business and plan accordingly.

Optimize Network Resource Allocation

NetFlow Traffic Analyzer delivers the data necessary to identify areas of excess capacity and re-assign bandwidth to areas experiencing bottlenecks without necessarily increasing spending.

Align IT Resources with Business Needs

NetFlow Traffic Analyzer shows IT staff exactly what users are doing on the network, allowing them to adjust their efforts to fully support business priorities.

Increase Network Security

NetFlow Traffic Analyzer improves visibility into the inbound network traffic, exposing suspicious activities or anomalous patterns to identify a wide variety of intrusions, such as the SQL slammer worm, and malware that populate "fake" e-mail traffic in hopes of overloading Exchange servers.