how netflow analyzer monitors 250 distributed interfaces at a datacenter

Leading Managed Service Provider uses NetFlow Analyzer for monitoring 250 interfaces

Reference Customer Implementation

About the Company

6000 customers

3500 employees

$1.2 billion revenueCommunications, Data center services & Managed Services

Challenge

Billing the customers

1. Based on speed

2. Based on volume

Monitoring a specific set of IP groups

1. Bandwidth usage on a per client basis

2. Usage pattern of each client or specific set of clients

Customer’s network info

No. of routers – 12

No. of interfaces – 250

No. of collectors - 2

Implementation

Router 1 Router 2 Router 3

Router 4 Router 5 Router 6

Router 1Router 2

Router 3Router 4

Router 5 Router 6

Flow exports

Flow exports

Flow exports Flow exportsCollector A

Collector B

Central Server

Site A Site B

How NetFlow Analyzer helped?

• Billing reports

IT team could generate speed & volume based billing reports with ease

• IP Grouping

Monitoring bandwidth usage for specific clients with the help of IP grouping feature

IP Grouping

• A set of IPs are grouped & monitored

• Helps understanding bandwidth usage for exclusively those IP groups

• Helped the IT team identify their biggest clients

No. of IP groups(in this case) - 70

Billing

• Customizable billing reports

• Speed & volume based billing

• Ability to view older bill plans

• IP grouping & billing reports together help in automating billing for different sets of clients

• Also acts as a validation tool

Business Benefits

• Better visibility into client-specific usage

• Automated billing

• Improved accuracy in billing

• Predictable bandwidth usage & improves forecasting

Thank yousaisundhar.p@zohocorp.com