US metro rail provides 24/7 connectivity with NetFlow Analyzer

1. US metro rail provides 24/7 connectivity
with NetFlow Analyzer
CLIENT PROFILE
Industry: Metro Rail
Location: Washington DC
Solution: NetFlow Analyzer
US 2nd largest rail transit
system transports more than a
third of the federal government
to work and millions of tourists
to landmarks in the Nation's
Capital.

2. BUSINESS CHALLENGE
Jorge, NOC lead, says “It was very difficult for
them to manage and secure millions of
transactions every year. Even a few minutes of
network outage can disturb the entire services
provided by them. Managing variety of devices
and keeping them up and running is the day to
day challenge. Also, finding out which link is
over-utilized and which applications are
consuming more traffic was main reason to go
for traffic monitoring tool. ”

3. NETWORK INFRASTRUCTURE
• Distributed monitoring is used to take control
of around 100 stations.
• Consist of multiple switches and routers
ranging from Cisco to various others.

4. PREVIOUS TOOL
• Solarwinds
• “It was not so easy to track down the ISP’s
bandwidth utilization and get all the
bandwidth related statistics at once single
dashboard. Many private applications were
needed to be monitoring and a tool which can
map all these applications to show the exact
graph to categorize traffic was needed.”

5. THE SOLUTION
• NetFlow Analyzer
• “We have evaluated various products for
bandwidth monitoring. And there was no
other tool as simple as NetFlow. It’s been 8
years since we started using it and it’s always
been a tool to alert us when there are
bandwidth related issues.”

6. BENEFITS
• Pinpoints the exact fault in the network.
• Provides real-time details on how bandwidth
is being used.
• Delivers better quality of service to users.
• Reduces cost of buying new bandwidth from
ISP.
• Helps to avoid bandwidth bottlenecks and
network outages.

7. NetFlow Analyzer is traffic analytics tool, leverages
flow technologies to provide real time visibility into
the network bandwidth performance. NetFlow
Analyzer, has been optimizing thousands of
networks across the world by giving holistic view
about their network bandwidth and traffic patterns.
A unified solution that collects, analyzes and
reports about what your network bandwidth is
being used for and by whom and performing
network forensics and network traffic analysis.
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8. To know more
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