Letters to the editor
Worthy of the spotlight
Source: NETWORKWORLD, 2006/10/30
Kudos to Mark Gibbs for his update on Paessler AGs Paessler Router Traffic Grapher
(PRTG) - - except he fails to mention one of the products top selling points. PRTG is
by far the cheapest commercial NetFlow data collection and reporting tool Ive found.
While its NetFlow capabilities are a bit limited, it does the basics that most business
networks need quite well. NetFlow licensing is an add-on module licensed per
number of collectors but PRTG comes in at about 30% the price of the next nearest
competitor from my survey of the market.
Taken together with features Gibbs mentions (and dont forget interface bandwidth
reporting), PRTG is an excellent product that I have used in a number of networks
ever since Gibbs first brought it to light three years ago.
Todd Doolittle
Network engineer
Perot Systems
Boulder, Colo.
