NetFlow Optimizer™
Cut Ingest Costs 80–90%.
Enrich Every Flow.
Deploy in Under an Hour.
A software-only processing engine that transforms raw network flow data
into enriched, high-fidelity intelligence — delivered to your SIEM,
your IT operations platforms, or both.
80-90%
Flow volume reduction
300K+
Flows / sec, single instance
3K
SNMP devices / instance
<1hr
Time to deploy
How It Works
What goes in. What happens to it. Where it goes.
NFO sits between your network and your downstream platforms —
SIEMs, IT operations tools, and data lakes — as a software-only pre-processor.
It normalizes every source into a single enriched stream — at wire speed, with zero data loss.
CORE CAPABILITY 01
Intelligent Volume Reduction
Raw NetFlow is full of duplicates, redundant micro-flows, and unidirectional records that tell half the story. NFO eliminates the noise before it costs you anything.
Intelligent Aggregation
Collapses hundreds of micro-flows into single high-value records, preserving analytical fidelity while slashing record count.
Deduplication
Removes redundant flow records from overlapping collectors — the same conversation reported by multiple devices counts once.
Flow Stitching
Reconstructs unidirectional flows into complete bidirectional conversations — delivering an additional 50% reduction on top of deduplication.
Top N Analysis
Automatically surfaces the highest-volume talkers, most-used applications, and heaviest bandwidth consumers.
CORE CAPABILITY 02
Context Enrichment
Raw flows show IP addresses. NFO turns every record into a complete intelligence asset — before it leaves the pipeline, not after your analyst spends an hour on lookups.
User Identity
Maps IP addresses to a named user via Active Directory, Okta, or Microsoft Entra ID in real time.
Threat Intelligence
Correlates source and destination IPs against real-time threat reputation feeds. Malicious actors are flagged before delivery.
Cloud & VM Metadata
Adds instance name, tags, VPC, and region for cloud workloads — so a flow from 10.0.2.44 becomes “prod-api-us-east-1”.
GeoIP Tagging
Every flow record gets country, city, and ASN — enabling immediate geographic threat context.
CORE CAPABILITY 03
Security Intelligence
NFO doesn’t just pass enriched data — it actively participates in detection. Threat correlation, DDoS identification, and forensic capture happen inside the pipeline
Real-Time Threat Correlation
Every flow is checked against threat reputation feeds on ingestion. Known malicious IPs, C2 servers, and tor exit nodes are flagged immediately.
Affected Host Drill-Down
When a threat is detected, NFO pinpoints exactly which internal hosts are communicating with the actor — no manual pivot required.
DDoS Detector
Built-in module identifies volumetric attack patterns in real time and surfaces affected services before your NOC notices the slowdown.
NetFlow Recorder & Replay
Capture flows to memory or disk during an incident. Replay to your SIEM later for forensic investigation — without re-generating traffic.
CORE CAPABILITY 04
Software-Only. Scales Without Limits.
No appliances. No vendor lock-in. NFO runs on commodity Linux or Windows Server hardware and scales horizontally as your network grows.
Software-Only Deployment
Runs on RHEL 7+, Rocky Linux 8+, or Windows Server 2019 / 2022 / 2025. Entry sizing: 2 cores / 4 vCPUs / 16 GB RAM.
300,000+ Flows Per Second
A single NFO instance processes over 300,000 flows per second with zero data loss — sufficient for most enterprise environments.
Distributed Deployment
Add NFO instances behind an NFO Central LB to scale to any throughput. No re-architecture required — add nodes as volume grows.
Operational in Under an Hour
Download, install, point your routers at it. No professional services, no consultants, no six-week implementation project.
One Platform. Three Data Sources
NetFlow, SNMP, and MDT — all in NFO
Most tools make you stitch together three vendors to get full network visibility.
NFO collects, normalizes, and delivers all three telemetry streams from a single platform
— so your SIEM sees everything, and your team manages one thing.
PILLAR 01
NetFlow & IPFIX Processing
High-throughput collection and intelligent processing of flow data from every router, switch, and firewall on your network.
PILLAR 02
SNMP Device Monitoring (*)
Zero-touch discovery and continuous health monitoring for 3,000 network devices per instance — routers, switches, firewalls, WLCs, and more.
(*) Available as a separate product — SNMP Monitoring is licensed independently from NFO.
PILLAR 03
Model-Driven Telemetry (MDT)
Sub-second streaming telemetry from modern Cisco and Juniper hardware — far beyond what SNMP polling intervals can deliver.
Performance & Scale
Numbers that matter at enterprise scale
300K+
Flows / second · Single instance
Flow Processing
Process over 300,000 flows per second with zero data loss on a single NFO instance. Entry sizing: 2 cores / 4 vCPUs / 16 GB RAM / 20 GB disk.
3K
Devices / instance · SNMP
SNMP Polling
Poll up to 3,000 network devices per instance, depending on network latency. Scale beyond that with additional instances in a distributed setup.
∞
Throughput ceiling · Distributed
Distributed Deployment
Scale to any volume by adding NFO instances behind a central controller. No re-architecture, no proprietary hardware, no throughput ceiling.
<1hr
Time to deploy · Software-only
Easy Deployment
Runs on Linux (RHEL 7+, Rocky 8+) or Windows Server 2019 / 2022 / 2025. No appliances, no vendor lock-in, no professional services required.
Free Apps & Integrations
Works with your SIEM out of the box
NFO delivers enriched flow data to any SIEM or data platform. For Splunk and Sumo Logic, we ship free apps that put dashboards, alerts, and reports in place from day one — no custom development required.
See NFO process your flows live
— in 30 minutes
Start a free trial with your own data, or schedule a technical
demo with a NetFlow Logic engineer. No commitment,
no pitch deck.