Editing NetFlow (section)

=== Equivalents ===

Many vendors other than [[Cisco Systems|Cisco]] provide similar network flow monitoring technology.  NetFlow may be a prevalent name in the area of flow monitoring, because of  [[Cisco Systems|Cisco]] dominant market share in the networking industry.  NetFlow is thought to be a Cisco trademark (even though as of March 2012 it is not listed in Cisco Trademarks<ref>{{cite web | title=Cisco Trademarks | url=http://www.cisco.com/web/siteassets/legal/trademark.html}}</ref>):
* [[Argus - Audit Record Generation and Utilization System]]
* Jflow or cflowd for [[Juniper Networks]]
* NetStream for [[3com|3Com/HP]]
* NetStream for [[Huawei Technologies]]
* Cflowd for [[Nokia]]
* Rflow for [[Ericsson]]
* AppFlow [[Citrix]]
* [[sFlow]] vendors include: [[Alaxala]], [[Alcatel Lucent]], [[Allied Telesis]], [[Arista Networks]], [[Brocade Communications Systems|Brocade]], [[Cisco Systems|Cisco]], [[Dell]], [[D-Link]], [[Enterasys]], [[Extreme Networks|Extreme]], [[F5 Networks|F5 BIG-IP]], [[Fortinet]], [[Hewlett-Packard]], [[Hitachi]], [[Huawei]], [[IBM]], [[Juniper Networks|Juniper]], [[LG-Ericsson]], [[Mellanox]], [[MRV Communications|MRV]], [[NEC]], [[Netgear]], [[Proxim Wireless]], [[Quanta Computer]], [[Vyatta]], Telesoft, [[ZTE]] and [[ZyXEL]]<ref name="sFlow Vendors">{{cite web
 | url = http://www.sflow.org/products/network.php
 | title = sFlow Products: Network Equipment
 | publisher = sFlow.org
}}</ref>

Also flow-tools collection of software<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://github.com/adsr/flow-tools|title = Adsr/Flow-tools|website = [[GitHub]]|date = 5 October 2021}}</ref> allows to process and manage NetFlow exports from Cisco and Juniper routers.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://github.com/adsr/flow-tools/blob/master/README|title = Adsr/Flow-tools|website = [[GitHub]]|date = 5 October 2021}}</ref>