This leading manufacturing and logistics company with 13,000 employees in 80 countries uses NetFlow Analyzer to monitor network traffic across its extensive global operations. The tool provides real-time bandwidth monitoring, scheduled reporting, and WAN RTT monitoring to ensure connectivity and proactively address any potential network slowdowns across multiple locations that could impact operations. This implementation with 9 collectors and over 2500 interfaces has provided benefits like increased network availability and control, faster issue resolution, and an ability to more proactively support over $9 billion in annual revenue.

1. Leading manufacturing & logistics company
uses NetFlow Analyzer for monitoring
network traffic
Reference Customer Implementation

2. 80 countries
13,000 employees
ABOUT
THE
COMPANY
Manufacturing &
Logistics services
13,000 employees
80 countries
$9 billion revenue

3. IT network – The Spine

4. Challenges
• Multiple Locations to be monitored
• Non-affordability of downtime
• Proactive detection of factors causing slowdown

5. Impact of slowdown
• Temporary loss of access to critical
applications becomes a problem
• Slipped delivery schedules
• Inability to respond to customer
queries
• Loss of access to tracking shipments
• Panic across and among different
departments

6. The Solution
• A real-time bandwidth &
traffic monitoring tool
• Periodic scheduling of
reports to ensure
network is in good health
• WAN RTT monitoring
• Extremely high scalability

7. Implementation
Router 1 Router 2 Router 3
Router 4 Router 5 Router 6
Router 1
Router 2
Router 3
Router 4
Router 5 Router 6
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Collector B
Central Server
Site 1 Site 9
9 collectors
2500 Interfaces
400 routers
6000-8000 fps/collector
Across US,UK,Asia,Aus

8. WAN RTT Monitor – For availability
Paths violating the threshold limits
Severity status & a message indicating RTT and the threshold limit

9. WAN RTT Monitoring

10. WAN RTT – Availability & threshold
violation

11. The Advantages
• Easy monitoring of
distributed networks
• High scalability
• WAN RTT monitoring
through IP SLA monitoring to
ensure round-the-clock
connectivity
• Scheduled reports

12. Business benefits
• Makes the IT team proactive to network
slowdowns
• Easy deployment
• Automatic scheduling of reports makes
monitoring at periodic intervals a simple task
• WAN RTT monitoring ensures that the
network is up and running at all times at all
places
• Applications required to run the business
receive adequate network resources

13. Benefits to the Company
• Assured availability of bandwidth for critical
purposes such as office
email, CRM, ERP, Support portal, Tracking
system
• Increased control over the IT network
• A proactive approach to solve real-time
emergencies rather than a reactive approach
• Faster troubleshooting and cost-cutting due to
saved troubleshooting time

14. Thank you
saisundhar.p@zohocorp.com