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Netflow Mediation Suite

The collection of usage data from distributed NetFlow* enabled network elements is a key issue for IP mediation and billing applications.

The NetFlow Mediation Suite is targeted at carriers and ISVs who are willing to enhance their IP mediation infrastructure with a flexible, scalable and efficient IP usage data acquisition system.

	Architecture		Pre-processed usage data are passed to business applications through various types of connectors : Text file, IPDR, CSV, XML, Excel, . Download into databases: JDBC, Oracle, . via JMS™ (Java Messaging Service) Through gateway components designed for this specific purpose. Those components are part of the Software Development Kit.
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*Netflow is Cisco IOS™ acceleration and accounting feature that maintains per-flow information. A Flow is a unidirectional stream of packets between a given source and destination-both defined by a network-layer IP address and transport-layer source and destination port numbers