Broadcom Network Flow Analysis Reviews

I use Broadcom Network Flow Analysis in my company as it helps us deal with the classification of protocol, which will monitor the flow, and once we enable the flow in the network devices, we can see the flow of how the traffic goes between different network devices in our environment, and also we can see the different protocols. Basically, our company uses the tool to check the flow analysis.

The most valuable feature of the solution stems from the fact that the complete flow analysis can be identified through the tool. The classification of each protocol and how the bandwidth utilization is happening with the protocols while managing to get SLAs, IP protocols, and QoS metrics is possible because of the product.

The custom report is the most valuable feature. Because network flow analysis is a very common tool, I can easily find a free NFA tool through the internet. However, the only difference between them and this solution is how they present the data that they receive.

With daily reports, our customers can easily find out the utilization of their bandwidth, protocols, source IP and destination IP. Those elements are importance references for them to make a monitoring report.

I have found three features to be most valuable: custom reporting, flow forensics, and traffic alerts by Trap SNMP.

Custom reporting – We can add filters by interface, port, and host.

Flow forensic – We can play with all fields-of-flow versions (Netflow v5 ,v9 . ipfix, sflow, etc.). We run quick reports to detect intrusions or traffic malware.

Traffic alerts by Trap SNMP - I can set 4 threshold types: utilization, rate, volume, and flow.

Like consultants, I deploy on many companies by region. In some companies, 100% growth is observed. For this to occur, there must be network traffic knowledge and action, especially among pertinent teams like: Network Management, System Management, Datacenter, Applications, and IT Security.

All drill-down features and the utilization calendar chart. Quick way to find time period when the router interface is most utilized and to troubleshoot further by zooming into that period with a smaller level of resolution (1 minute) to find out which applications or/and users are generating the most traffic.

We can locate the source of network performance problems easier than before, so it saves a lot of time when troubleshooting.

Anomaly Detector - This detects the anomaly flows in infra environment and makes job easy to analyze issue.

This product helped to analyze traffic and helped organization to take critical decisions related to network bandwidth.

Our primary use case for this solution is visibility into bucket flow.

This solution has helped our organization by allowing us to have visibility. We deal with cybersecurity, so visibility is very important.