Returning to normal: monitoring the reintroduction of the workforce
When this pandemic started and nearly the entire workforce went remote, our focus was to maintain the quality of service outside of what was...
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Advanced Silver Peak monitoring with IPFIX
Competition generally ends up being good for the consumer. It keeps prices down and forces innovation as vendors compete for market share. A great...
Home network quarantine project: Ubiquiti NetFlow
A few years back, Jake Bergeron, one of Plixer’s Sr. Solutions Engineers, wrote a blog about Ubiquiti NetFlow support and how to enable it....
How to avoid NetFlow sampling
As resource demands and bandwidth speeds in many of today’s network infrastructures continue to increase, many network administrators believe that NetFlow sampling is the only...
Support criteria for SD-WAN vendors
As OEMs continue to invest in WAN optimization, what differentiates vendors’ capabilities so that enterprises seek to scale their infrastructure? In this blog, we’ve...
VeloCloud metadata monitoring in 2020
I’ve had the opportunity to work alongside two completed VeloCloud deployments over the past 6 months. This blog covers what I’ve learned about the...
Network capacity planning fundamentals
Are we properly utilizing these expensive WAN links? That is probably a question you have asked yourself on more than one occasion when you...
Securing third-party VPN access
We all know that VPN monitoring is something every network and security engineer should be familiar with, but with the recent uptick of changes in...
How to monitor VPN traffic
More and more people are working from home. Now, organizations need a way to understand the role a remote workforce plays in their network...
Where should I enable flow data?
The big boss had a conference call over the weekend. She sent a message to your boss’s boss, which trickled downhill, and eventually made...