Network Traffic Analysis Software in Data Centers

Cisco NAM is available in various versions for end-users, namely, NAM Software 4.2, Prime NAM Software 5.0, prime NAM Software 5.1, Prime NAM Software 6.0, Prime NAM Software 6.1, and Prime NAM Software 6.2. Cisco delivers product offerings that are aimed to optimize network resource, security, and simplify the network infrastructure of services providers, data center providers, and enterprises. Cisco Systems Inc also offers Virtual NPM with which customers can monitor and analyze network systems at anytime and anywhere. Cisco has grabbed a pole position in the network traffic analysis software market by leveraging its Research and Development (R&D) capabilities and merging them with the offerings of the recently acquired companies. Cisco Stealthwatch provides a high level of security against advanced network threats. Stealthwatch captures real-time network data from devices, applications, and users to protect against threats, DDoS, and malware. This solution helps enterprises to mitigate the network security attacks by troubleshooting network system. It also helps enterprises to solve various issues related to compliance, data center security, cloud security, and security intelligence. Cisco also offers professional services including deployment of the solution, health monitoring of devices, proxy integration, and Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) integration. Cisco’s customers include Westinghouse, Asiacell, Deloitte, Viacom, and Experian.

The company offers enterprise edition network management products, which consist integrated component, web servers, and databases. These enterprise-class network management products are designed to work together. SolarWinds also helps network administrators to purchase and deploy individual products as per their requirements. Network Performance Monitor, SolarWinds’ flagship product, is a server-based performance and fault management platform and is designed to lower the network downtime. NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is a network traffic analyzer and bandwidth monitoring software. NetFlow Traffic Analyzer gathers data from various network devices using Cisco Systems’ NetFlow protocol and other related protocols. The data provides an extensive view of the network, which enables network administrators to know which end-users, applications, and protocols are consuming more bandwidth. NetFlow Traffic Analyzer offers capabilities, such as network traffic analysis, bandwidth monitoring, performance analysis dashboard, customizable network traffic reports, Wireless Local Area Network (LAN) Controller (WLC) traffic monitoring, and Next Generation Network-Based Application Recognition (NBAR2) advanced application recognition. SolarWinds’ network and systems management software are built on Orion platform. The cloud-based products of SolarWinds are used to manage and monitor application infrastructure in the cloud as well as in the onpremises environment.

Flowmon's network traffic analysis software identifies various types of service outages and the misconfiguration of the network, unauthorised access to the network, multicast traffic, violations in the policies leading to security issues, the workstations which are getting impacted by the network and the unauthorised activity in the data network and many more solutions. Flowmon provides a very uniques feature of auditing the network to detect anomalies and to monitor the performance of the network. This feature is used by both - the technical team and the top management to rectify the errors and increase the efficiency of the system

Paessler AG produces a highly powerful network monitoring software, PRTG Network Monitor. It is agentless and monitors and classifies usage of bandwidth, collects statistics from a host like routers and servers.

There is an auto-discovery feature that scans predefined areas in the network. The software creates a list of devices from the collected data detailed information for which can be obtained by using several communication protocols.

The unique selling proposition (USP) of LogicMonitor is its comprehensive and automated approach to network monitoring. It provides real-time, round-the-clock monitoring of network traffic across virtual, cloud, and physical infrastructures. It collects and stores more than 500 metrics, including bandwidth utilization, latency, jitter, errors, discards, and application-level performance metrics. It also offers detailed analytics and alerts based on network performance, allowing businesses to proactively identify, troubleshoot, and resolve performance issues. With LogicMonitor’s unique network visibility, businesses gain insights into traffic trends, usage patterns, and security threats.

InMon's variety of products provide different solutions for Network Analysis and Monitoring. Traffic Sentinel™ gives ongoing system perceivability to oversee huge complex systems. sFlowTrend™ is a free, graphical system and server observing instrument. sFlowTrend utilizes the famous sFlow® standard to produce ongoing presentations of the top clients and applications utilizing system transmission capacity. sFlowTrend-Pro™ is a completely highlighted system traffic observing item. sFlowTrend-Pro utilizes the well known sFlow® standard to produce ongoing presentations of the top clients and applications utilizing system transmission capacity. sFlowTrend-Pro additionally utilizes the expansions to the sFlow standard for checking physical and virtual server execution, to connection system, server, and application execution and give an end-end perspective on arranged framework execution.