Network Performance Monitoring for State, Local Government, and Education
State and local governments, K-12 school districts, colleges, and universities depend on networks that connect users, applications, campuses, offices, data centers, and cloud services. When performance degrades or suspicious activity appears, network and security teams need to determine what happened quickly and support their conclusions with actual network data.
Plixer gives public sector organizations a practical way to investigate network performance and security using flow data. Plixer One and Scrutinizer collect and analyze telemetry including NetFlow, IPFIX, sFlow, and VPC flow logs from routers, switches, firewalls, cloud connectors, and other infrastructure already generating network data. Teams can examine hosts, conversations, applications, users, interfaces, and traffic patterns to troubleshoot problems and investigate unusual activity.
For network operations teams, Plixer makes it easier to identify bandwidth consumption, top talkers, application behavior, interface activity, and historical traffic patterns. Instead of stopping when traditional infrastructure monitoring shows that devices are healthy, engineers can examine the actual conversations crossing the network and use that evidence to isolate performance problems.
The same flow record can also support security investigations. Security teams can investigate suspicious communications, behavioral anomalies, lateral movement, policy violations, and other network activity without deploying agents on every workload. When deeper evidence is required, Plixer FlowPro can generate enriched, unsampled IPFIX telemetry from packet traffic and provide targeted packet capture for investigation and forensic analysis.
Plixer AI extends these workflows by working directly with network and security data. AI capabilities can analyze alerts, correlate related network activity, generate investigation summaries, and support configurable investigation workflows, while analysts retain review over actions and conclusions.
Plixer is designed to scale with distributed organizations. Each collector supports up to 100,000 flows per second, and organizations can deploy unlimited collectors as network requirements grow.
For public sector network and security teams facing expanding infrastructure, constrained resources, and growing investigative demands, Plixer provides a flow-native approach built around evidence. Teams can troubleshoot performance issues first, then extend the same network data into threat detection and investigation without starting over with another source of telemetry.
Frequently Asked Questions
Plixer provides network performance and security solutions built on network flow data. State and local agencies, K-12 districts, colleges, and universities can use Plixer to monitor network traffic, troubleshoot performance problems, investigate suspicious activity, and analyze historical communications using telemetry such as NetFlow, IPFIX, sFlow, and cloud flow logs.
Plixer collects and analyzes NetFlow, IPFIX, sFlow, and other flow telemetry to show which hosts, applications, users, and network conversations are consuming bandwidth and communicating across the network. When existing infrastructure cannot provide the required flow telemetry, FlowPro can generate enriched, unsampled IPFIX from SPAN, ERSPAN, or TAP traffic for deeper analysis.
Yes. Network operations teams can use flow data to investigate bandwidth usage, application behavior, interfaces, hosts, and performance problems. Security teams can use the same underlying network data to investigate behavioral anomalies, suspicious communications, lateral movement, policy violations, and other potential threats.
Plixer AI works with network and security data to analyze alerts, correlate related activity, summarize investigations, and support configurable investigation workflows. This gives NOC and SOC teams another way to work through large amounts of network evidence while retaining human review over actions and conclusions.
No. Plixer primarily analyzes network telemetry generated by network infrastructure and other data sources, so organizations do not need to deploy agents on every workload to gain network traffic insight. Plixer can also add endpoint context and packet-derived telemetry when deeper investigation is required.