One of the most useful things to have in your network monitoring toolkit is Network Traffic Analysis (NTA). It collects and processes network flow data (commonly available through features such as Cisco’s NetFlow) to give you x-ray vision into your network traffic, including port-level analysis of applications consuming bandwidth and bandwidth consumption by end-point or application over time. Pretty easy to see how this would be useful, right? Read this technology spotlight to learn the seven ways NTA can make your life easier.
