Which NetFlow Analyzer is right for me?

This section helps you better understand the benefits, capabilities and features that come with the Professional Edition and the Enterprise Edition. We have prepared the list with the aim of making it easier for you to make the right choice, right away. Please note that it is not possible to migrate your data from Professional Edition to Enterprise Edition or vice versa.

N.B. The Professional Plus edition offers the following in addition to the Professional edition:

  1. Reporting on Cisco CBQoS - Monitor class based pre policy, post policy usage, drops and queuing.
  2. Reporting on NBAR - Intelligent application categorization based on deep packet inspection.
  3. Usage based billing - Generation of periodic bills for accounting and for charge-back.
Professional Edition
Enterprise Edition
Suitable for Small and medium business Large enterprises with distributed networks
Interface Count supported Up to 600 router interfaces / switch ports Up to 20000 router interfaces / switch ports
Basic Architecture Integrated flow collector and reporting engine Distributed flow collectors with centralized reporting engine
Traffic reports based on applications and hosts
Support for TOS, DSCP and TCP_Flag
Flow versions supported NetFlow® versions 5/7/9,sFlow®, cflowd®,J-Flow®,IPFIX®, NetStream®andCisco®NBAR NetFlow® versions 5/7/9,sFlow®, J-Flow®, IPFIX®, NetStream® and Cisco® NBAR
Data Storage period Every flow stored for up to 1 month for troubleshooting. Aggregated data stored forever for historic reports Every flow stored for up to 1 month for troubleshooting. Aggregated data stored forever for historic reports
Alerting based on threshold violations
Automatic Scheduling of reports
Privilege based user restrictions
IP Based departments and groups
Application categorization Based on port, protocol and hosts Based on port, protocol and hosts
Flow rates supported Up to 15,000 flows per minute Up to 3,00,000 flows per minute per Collector
Hardware requirements Single server. (Refer sizing guide for server configuration) A server each for the central server and each of the flow collectors. ( Refer sizing guide for server configuration )
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