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<p class="MsoNormal">I’m looking for product recommendations:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">We’ve noticed that about 20% of our traffic here lately has decamped from the free (or, at least, flat-rate) connection to CANARIE (our R&E network) and its various connected content-delivery networks, and onto our commercial provider.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">While this is presumptively a legitimate shift, we’d like to better understand these changes when they occur, in a way that our executive can understand at a glance.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">We do have sFlow (et al.) going to an Arbor PeakFlow box for analysis, but it’s lacklustre at best at understanding changes like this.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I want:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">Top #n ASNs by traffic volume, per router/interface, stacked chart<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">Some way to visualize large jumps in that dataset, e.g. if Cloudflare ditched their CANARIE connection and now that traffic all goes commercial, I don’t know what sort of graphic would
be useful, maybe a stacked polar chart so you could see when an AS jumped from one sector to another? Even stacked bar charts could be useful.<o:p></o:p></li></ul>
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<p class="MsoNormal">If anyone knows of tools capable of generating easy-to-understand reports, dashboards, including historical “what changed this week”-type data, please let me know.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">For that matter, if you have a technique of collecting this data and using Excel to do the reporting, that would work too.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">(Yes, I could theoretically build this off of existing open source tools… eventually)
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">-Adam<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#44546A;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">Adam Thompson</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#44546A;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA"><br>
Consultant, Infrastructure Services<br>
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<a href="http://www.merlin.mb.ca/"><span style="color:#44546A">www.merlin.mb.ca</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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