Vendor Sheet
Dissecting Network Traffic with Profitap and ntop
This solution brief explains how Profitap and ntop give organizations complete access to network traffic and detailed insight into bandwidth usage, applications, hosts, and communications. Profitap TAPs passively copy every packet without affecting critical links, while Network Packet Brokers aggregate, filter, and deliver only relevant traffic to ntop tools. ntop software provides deep packet inspection, traffic recording, NetFlow and IPFIX generation, Layer 7 classification, flow collection, web-based analysis, historical statistics, and geographic communication mapping. Tools such as n2disk, nProbe, nProbe Cento, ntopng, nDPI, and PF_RING support high-speed capture and analysis at rates reaching 100 Gbit. The solution helps service providers and enterprises identify bandwidth-heavy appl
