Put the Brakes on Bandwidth Hogs
NTA Highlights
- Identifies which users, applications, and protocols are consuming the most network
bandwidth and highlights the IP addresses of the top talkers on the network - Monitors network traffic by capturing flow data from network devices, including
Cisco® NetFlow v5 or v9, Juniper® J-Flow, IPFIX, and sFlow® - Maps the traffic arriving from designated ports, source IPs, destination IPs, and even
protocols, to application names you can easily recognize - Delivers an instant alert notification, including a list of top talkers, when an interface
exceeds its utilization threshold - Performs Class-Based Quality of Service (CBQoS) monitoring to ensure that your
traffic prioritization policies are effective - Enables you to quickly drill-down into traffic on specific network elements, using
multiple views to get the perspective you’re looking for - Generates network traffic reports with just a few clicks
- Facilitates investigation of fault, performance, and configuration issues thanks to
complete integration with Orion NPM and Orion NCM
NetFlow Traffic Analyzer Features
Detailed Traffic Analysis
NetFlow Traffic Analyzer (NTA) provides you with unprecedented views into network traffic, enabling you to proactively ensure that you are optimizing network resources. By examining flow data on routers and switches from leading vendors, NTA determines traffic by user, application, department, conversation, interface,protocol and type of service. Integration with Orion provides users with the extensive drill down across traffic patterns and into device performance, resulting in deep visibility into usage, performance, and availability statistics.
NetFlow Forensics
NTA makes it quick and easy to investigate and isolate excessive network bandwidth utilization and unexpected application traffic, as well as analyze QoS performance by user, group, application,country, or protocol.
Advanced Application Mapping
Knowing that 98% of your bandwidth is “web traffic” is nice. But knowing what percentage is being used by YouTube™, Facebook®, or Amazon®, versus critical business applications like Salesforce.com®, is really useful! Orion NTA correlates the traffic arriving from designated ports, source IPs, destination IPs, and even protocols, to application names you can easily recognize.
Network Traffic View Builder
With Orion NetFlow Traffic Analyzer, you can create and share personalized views of network traffic. Get as specific as you like – if you want to see domain traffic generated during standard office hours from a specific IP address, it’s no problem. With your own personalized view of network traffic, you can quickly isolate and continually monitor those problematic applications and users!
Top Talker Optimization
Top talker optimization allows you to focus your traffic analysis on the users and applications that consume the majority of network bandwidth. Orion NTA determines which flows are representative of the majority of bandwidth usage and stores those flows while disregarding flow data from users and apps that have a negligible impact on the overall bandwidth. This elegant solution boosts overall performance of Orion NTA up to 10x when capturing flows
Interface Alerts with Top Talker Details
With Orion, you can easily configure an interface utilization alert to notify you whenever bandwidth consumption exceeds your defined threshold and also quickly determine who is consuming it. So the next time Ann in finance is watching Justin Bieber YouTube videos and slamming your internet gateway’s primary interface, you’ll get an e-mail alert notification telling you the bandwidth utilization for that interface is approaching capacity with a list of top talkers so you can instantly deprioritize Ann’s YouTube traffic.
CBQoS Performance Views
With NTA, you can view network traffic segmented by Class of Service methods, such as Type of Service or DSCP. Plus, you can quickly quantify the amount of bandwidth each of your critical QoS levels is consuming, including voice and video data, to determine if your network is configured to meet company goals.
IP Address Groups
Create your own IP address groups to view network traffic the way that YOU want to see it! Using the IP address group feature, you can view network traffic by multiple ranges of IP addresses (even overlapping IP addresses), by geography, department, or even device types such as firewalls, routers, switches, and servers.
Orion NPM Integration
Orion NTA is part of the Orion family, providing all the enterprise scalability and stability benefits you’ve come to know and love. Orion NTA incorporates monitoring of NetFlow, J-Flow, sFlow®, IPFIX, and CBQoS traffic into Orion’s familiar and intuitive web-based charts, graphs, tables, top 10 lists, and reports.
Flow-based Reporting
Orion-style reports can be run and scheduled with NTA, making it fast and simple to create in depth network traffic reports with a few mouse clicks or schedule automatic weekly delivery to your management team. Out-of-the-box reports include:
- Traffic by top xx resources based on percentages of top 100 items
- Traffic by top xx applications, endpoints, protocols, and domains over y days
- Traffic by IP address group over y days