Who Should Use NetFlow?

What is NetFlow? How does NetFlow work? Who should use NetFlow? Why implement NetFlow?

As IP traffic continues its explosive growth across today's networks, enterprise and service providers must be able to characterize this traffic and account for how and where it flows.

This presents business opportunities that help justify and optimize the vast investment involved in building a network, ranging from traffic engineering (to optimize traffic flow through the network) and understanding network detailed behaviour.

Understanding behaviour allows customers to implement new IP Services and applications with confidence.

The challenge, however, is finding a scalable, manageable, and reliable solution to provide the necessary data to support these opportunities. If you find yourself in this possition then you may find the use of NetFlow invaluable.

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