Bandwidth Monitoring Tools & Resources

This page contains a collection of tools, articles, how to guides, videos on bandwidth monitoring & management.


In the realm of computer hardware and software, most common measurements, for example those made of system memory and hard disk storage, are in an order of magnitude of bytes. Examples of this are measuring hard disk capacity in gigabytes, or billions of bytes, and measuring memory utilized by an application in kilobytes or megabytes, [...]

A network bottleneck is a delay in data transmission or data transfer through a computer network. Delays occur when a system’s power is overloaded by the amount of information and/or data that it is required to process.

In this video I walk through configuring netflow on a cisco router. Netflow is a technology that will help you monitor and analyze network traffic.

Almost all Cisco devices support NetFlow since its introduction in the 11.1 train of Cisco IOS Software and because of this, NetFlow is most likely available in any devices in the network. The following table provides a list of Cisco devices that support netflow.

NetFlow is a network protocol developed by Cisco Systems for collecting IP traffic information. NetfFow has become an industry standard for analyzing network traffic. In this article I will explain the difference version of NetFlow and the current NetFlow Standards.