Handbook HOW TO ANALYZE AND UNDERSTAND YOUR NETWORK Part 3: Network Traffic Monitoring or Packet Analysis? Get the Benefits of Both by Pavel Minarik, Chief Technology Officer at Flowmon Networks www.flowmon.comNetwork Traffic Monitoring or Packet Analysis? Get the Benefits of Both www.flowmon.com 2 In previous two articles, we took a look at two different approaches to network traffic monitoring and analysis. We described principles of flow-based traffic monitoring and the complete analysis of full packet traces. But why we should we enjoy the benefits of one or the other only? In this article, we will describe a modern solution that combines the benefits of both approaches. Flow data represents an abstraction of the network traffic, an aggregation based on the source IP address

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