This is the story of a leading datacenter based in the United States using NetFlow Analyzer for monitoring network traffic, security and carry out ISP billing.

1. Leading San Francisco-based Technology
Solutions Provider & Datacenter monitors 250
distributed interfaces using NetFlow Analyzer
Reference Customer Implementation

2. About the Company
San Francisco-based datacenter & technology
solutions provider
$45 million revenue
500 employees
Branch offices – Ohio, New Jersey, New York City,
Irvine, Sacramento, San Diego, San Jose,
Massachusetts, Netherlands

3. Customer’s network
31 routers
250 interfaces
11 collectors

4. The Challenge
• Billing the customers on a regular basis based on
bandwidth usage
• Security monitoring for the network
• Grouping a set of customers and monitoring
network usage in terms of applications,
bandwidth and traffic patterns for customer
profiling

5. NetFlow Analyzer’s capabilities
• Real-time flow-based behavioral
analysis
• Security analytics dashboard
• Speed & volume based billing
• Real-time traffic analysis for IP
groups

6. Security Analytics
• Flow-based network behavioral analysis
• Security analytics dashboard
• Detects more than 300 network security threats
in real-time
• Reinforces IDS & IPS

7. Mitigated DOS attacks

8. Billing
• Billing module
• Speed & volume based usage-based billing
• For recurring usage
• Useful for ISPs to charge their customers

9. Monitoring IP groups
• Ability to group specific IPs
• Monitoring and report generation specific to
these IP groups alone
• Prototyping behavior of certain set of customers
alone based on bandwidth usage pattern

10. Business Benefits
• IT team is on its toes on the
security front
• Billing made simple
• Better understanding of
their customer profile as a
datacenter service provider
• Real-time visibility and
better control on the
network

11. Thank you
saisundhar.p@zohocorp.com