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A Datacenter monitors 1000 interfaces using NetFlow Analyzer
1. Leading datacenter monitors 1000
interfaces with NetFlow Analyzer
Reference Customer Implementation
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2. About the Company
Datacenter based out of California
5000 employees
Operations in EMEA, China, India & Japan
4 collectors
1000 interfaces
Revenue: $2.5 billion
3. Business Challenge
• To provide uninterrupted, secure and a well-
controlled network environment to its customers and
stakeholders
• Monitor multiple distributed locations with high-flow
rate
• Monitor real-time traffic across different localized
time-zones
4. Customer’s network
No. of collectors – 4
No. of interfaces - 1000
Flow rate – 6000-8000 fps/collector
Flow type – NetFlow exports
Environment – Cisco
5. Implementation
Router 1 Router 2 Router 3
Router 4 Router 5 Router 6
Router 1
Router 2
Router 3
Router 4
Router 5 Router 6
Flow exports
Flow exports
Flow exports Flow exportsCollector A
Collector B
Central Server
Site 1 Site 4
4 collectors
1000 Interfaces6000-8000 fps/collector
Across USA, EMEA,
China-Japan, India
6. NetFlow Analyzer’s capabilities
• Real-time flow-based traffic
monitoring and analytics tool
• Distributed monitoring is quite simple
to setup and run
• Provides better visibility and control
on the network
7. Real-time traffic monitoring
• Network summarized in a
dashboard with all vital
statistics
• Real-time & flow-based
• Export options
• Extremely high granularity
8. Distributed Monitoring
• No matter where your locations are,
monitoring can be done with equal ease
• High scalability
• Up to 8000 flows per second per collector
• Ensures seamless functioning of the
network and minimizes downtime to a
great extent
9. Localization of reports
• Different locations would mean different time-
zones
• Reporting options in the respective time zones
are available in NetFlow Analyzer
10. Business Benefits to this customer
• Localized time-zone based reports
• Real-time view of network traffic,
top applications and bandwidth
consumption
• Savings in terms of bandwidth
costs & productivity