Our expertise

• In-depth knowledge of sFlow and NetFlow measurement, monitoring and analysis techniques
• Use of statistical sampling to analyse large volumes of performance data
• Software Defined Networks (SDN), particularly using OpenFlow and, Cumulus Linux ACLs and Arista eAPI/ACLs
• Experts in: Java, JavaScript, C++, PHP, web frameworks (jQuery, jQueryUI, etc)
• Protocols and APIs: sFlow, NetFlow, OpenFlow, SNMP, TCP/IP, HTTP, 802.11, NDIS, JSON, RESTful API design

Previous work

• InMon sFlowTrend and sFlowTrend-Pro

  Design, architecture, development, maintenance and customer support of the popular sFlow analysis products sFlowTrend and sFlowTrend-Pro. This includes data analysis, custom database design and implementation, REST API design, and Java and JavaScript user interface development.

• Windows sFlow agent

  Collaborated closely with Microsoft during the development of Windows Server 2012, to design and develop one of the first Hyper-V switch extensions. The Windows sFlow agent includes Hyper-V NDIS network sampling driver, Windows network and host agent stack, and integration with Windows System Center Virtual Machine Manager.

• Datacentre fabric optimisation

  Development of traffic engineering applications to optimise fabric throughput, using real-time network traffic analytics.

• OpenFlow 1.0 and 1.3 hybrid controller

  Development of an integrated Hybrid OpenFlow 1.0 and 1.3 controller to allow control actions to be made on an OpenFlow based Software Defined Network.