Have Questions about NetFlow? Ravica Can Help.
Aside from recently being blasted with swirling vortexes of terror in the form of tornoados (in New England?!), things here are going well. We recently mentioned that we have entered the NetFlow probe arena by offering nProbes and nBoxes for your business needs.
But it did occur to me that we should at least offer a brief overview of what NetFlow is.
Comparison of nBox and nProbe for NetFlow
Today’s business needs translate into massive amounts of traffic across networks, demanding mechanisms to maintain the data. In response, Cisco created NetFlow, a technology that monitors and records all traffic passing through the supported NetFlow router/switch. NetFlow has become the standard in network traffic monitoring by IT professionals, and fully utilizing it requires specialized technology.
To support this business need, we recently expanded the Ravica product line to include new hardware and software. Read more
Ravica adds NetFlow probes to product line-up
This month, Ravica branched out from our environmental monitoring roots and added a new product line of NetFlow probes to our inventory. These include two hardware options, the nBox and the nTap, as well as a software NetFlow solution, the nProbe. For today’s blog, I’ll focus in on the nBox.
NetFlow is a network protocol that was developed by Cisco Systems to collect IP traffic information and it has become the standard in network traffic monitoring by IT professionals. For more information on NetFlow, check out this blog on NetFlow basics at Systrax.com. For those without NetFlow capable routers or switches, fully utilizing NetFlow requires a probe which is generally attached to a PC and a software tool to capture the network information and put it into a usable form.
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