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Fascinating Facts from Kentik

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It’s also just one of the many interesting statistics that we run across as we operate our SaaS platform for network traffic analytics. Google maintains Internet-wide stats on the overall IPv6 adoption rate. As of this writing, those numbers show that about 17% of traffic on the Internet is IPv6.

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The (Net)Flow That Kentik Makes Go: Know Your Traffic Flow Data Protocols

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Not Just for NetFlow, Kentik Detect’s Analytics Cover All Major Flow Protocols. Some versions, but not all, support other data fields such as MAC address, VLAN ID, and IPv6. For example, NetFlow v9, IPFIX, and sFlow support IPv6 but NetFlow v5 and its equivalents don’t. Contact us and we’ll be happy to walk you through a demo.

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NetFlow, sFlow, and Flow Extensibility, Part 1

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But then the network ops and architecture folks, who at the time were mostly limited to looking at SNMP totals, asked for a mechanism by which these flow records could be exported so that they could be used for network analytics. Even at the dawn of flow analytics, people were interested in many different kinds of “behind the SNMP” views.

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Scaling BGP Peering in Kentik's SaaS Environment

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BGP can enrich network traffic data to visualize traffic per BGP path for peering analytics and also to inject routes that enable DDoS mitigation capabilities such as RTBH and Flowspec. IPv6 peerings are starting to outgrow a single node. It also allowed mirroring the setup for our IPv6 fabric.

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NetFlow, sFlow, and Flow Extensibility, Part 2

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You could take the well-known data types like IPv4 and IPv6 and build a fast path for them. Most of the data systems that primarily store JSON natively would melt if you tried to do flow analytics with them. Contact us to ask questions, to request a demo , or to start a free trial today. We’d love to hear from you.