Dragonfly FlowMeter (DFM)

The FlowMeter is part of the Dragonfly family of cost-effective probes for monitoring large-scale IP network traffic and activity. These high-performance probes capture and analyze network traffic at wire-speed – up to 14.8 million packets per second on 10G links. 

 

The Dragonfly FlowMeter natively supports NetFlow v5, v9, and IPFIX record export protocols. It is one of the first commercially-supported IPFIX-compliant probes available on the market today and is designed to work with standards-based network collectors and analysis solutions from many of the leading vendors.

Target Applications

• Traffic analysis and reporting
• Network security monitoring
• Usage, accounting, and billing
• Fault isolation and event correlation
• Performance and capacity planning
• Discovery and configuration management
• Compliance assurance and policy enforcement
• Lawful Interception

Key Features

• Standards-based platform with multi-core processors
• Full line-rate packet capture with hardware acceleration
• 10Gbps (2-ports) or 1Gbps (4-ports) configuration
• Multi-threaded, multi-core aware software application
• Support for IPv4 and IPv6, VLAN, and MPLS traffic
• SNMP Management Agent
• High precision time-stamping
• Network Time Protocol (NTP) synchronization
• Web-based management and configuration over HTTPS
• Command line interface via SSH 
• Plug-in software architecture for ease of third-party customization and extensions

Availability and Pricing

Available immediately.  The DragonFly FlowMeter is designed for solution providers, system integrators, and end-users familiar with the shell command-line interface (CLI).  Please contact us to discuss custom configuration and/or OEM options.   

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