Case Study
ntop
Company in brief ntop develops open source network traffic monitoring applications. It first app, called ntop (circa 1998), is a web- based network monitoring application. ntop’s products range from traffic monitoring, high speed packet processing to deep-packet inspection and IDS/IPS acceleration (Bro and Suricata). Its software powers many commercial products. ntop aims to provide better yet cost-effective traffic monitoring; go beyond standard metrics and increase traffic visibility by analyzing key protocols in detail; and promote open-source software while protecting selected IPRs. All commercial ntop tools are available at no cost for research and education. ntopng is the next generation version of the original ntop, a network traffic probe that monit