how netflow analyzer monitors 250 distributed interfaces at a datacenter
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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
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