Plixer International, Cisco Announce NetFlow Webinar Series

By Rajani Baburajan

TMCnet Contributor

 

Plixer International, a provider of NetFlow-based network management solutions, in partnership with Cisco (News - Alert), announced a series of informative webinars on NetFlow technology, to help learn accurately diagnose application connection issues with next generation reporting and analytics for Cisco media aware networks.

'NetFlow and IPFIX have evolved into powerful network security and management tools,' said Michael Patterson (News - Alert), CEO and co-founder, Plixer International, in a statement.

According to Patterson, there are two primary factors in flow technology that separate the innovators from the vendors who have fallen behind in this technology. The webcast explains these factors and addresses the performance issues in flow networks.

Plixer's NetFlow management solution Scrutinizer now reports on key metrics such as round trip time for reported applications such as WebEx, Skype, Salesforce.com (News - Alert), and many more, all of which often hide behind the same TCP port 80, Patterson further said.

By partnering with Cisco, Plixer is able to support many of the products offered by Cisco as well as other vendors, company officials said. With these solutions, the company delivers a best-of-breed, scalable flow collection, reporting and analysis solution.

The first of the webinar series titled Cisco Performance Monitoring with Flexible NetFlow (FNF) Reporting will be held on Tuesday, September 4th, at 9am, 11am and 4pm EDT. The webinar will offer tips and tricks to improve the health of packet flows traversing switches and routers.

The webinar series will also address other key flow management topics such as unique attributes of next generation NetFlow and IPFIX solutions, unique reporting capabilities when mixing FNF technologies, how performance routing can optimize connection times and priority traffic and how to gain hop by hop visibility of a flow as it traverses the network.


Recently, Plixer recently revealed that it will be sponsoring West Coast Advanced NetFlow Training courses. The NetFlow training will help companies avoid similar data breaches that nearly 272 companies already reported in the first six months of 2012, the company said.