Specifications
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All rights reserved.
Product Features 2-8
NAM / Traffic Analyzer v3.5 Tutorial
© 2006 Cisco Systems, Inc. All rights reserved.
Product Features 2-8
NAM / Traffic Analyzer v3.5 Tutorial
NAMs in the Enterprise
NAMs in the Enterprise
Security
IP L2/L3
Headquarters
Video Surv.
Operations
IP WAN
Branch A
Remote Office
NM-NAM
NM-NAM
2851
3845
7200
6K-NAM
6K-NAM
6K-NAM
NM-NAM
NM-NAM Available for
Cisco Branch Routers
6K-NAM Available for Cisco
Catalyst 6500 Switches and Cisco
7600 Series Routers
NetFlow Data
Export to 6K-NAM
Monitoring remote sites
through web based
Traffic Analyzer
IDS
AAA
Firewall IDS
Content
NAM in the Network
We can all agree to the importance of having traffic visibility throughout the enterprise. Therefore, the NAM
comes in two basic models that allows for flexibility in monitoring. The NAM-1 and NAM-2 (number refers to
the number of data ports available for monitoring data streams) are available for use in Catalyst 6500
switches and 7600 internet routers. As will be discussed in more detail shortly, these NAMs use Spanning
technology to forward LAN data streams for analysis and VACL and NetFlow technology to analyze WAN
data streams. The NM-NAM is available for Cisco 2600XM, 2800, 3660, 3700, 3800 Series Branch Routers
utilizing Cisco Express Forwarding (CEF) and NetFlow to analyze mainly WAN data streams though it is also
possible to use the NM_NAM to analyze LAN data streams.
Next we will look at details of the NAM-1 and NAM-2 sometimes referred to as the 6k-NAM.