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Name
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Source
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Cost
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Dependencies
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Summary
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ADVISOR
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Visual Insights
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commercial
(contact company for pricing)
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components for custom tools
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ADVIZOR enables companies to add visual query and analysis
solutions to their existing decision support infrastructure,
and create and deploy interactive visual analysis
applications and application templates.
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Cichlid
(pronounced sik'-lid)
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NLANR/MOAT
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free, src available
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standalone tool
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Designed for rapidly visualizing arbitrary data sets in
high-quality 3D, while allowing the viewer to explore and interact with
the data sets in real time.
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GeoBoy2
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NDG Software
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commercial
(contact company for pricing)
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standalone tool
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A complete Internet connection manager and 3D visualization tool
designed for users concerned with monitoring web access, Internet
traffic and ISP connectivity options.
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Graphviz
|
Stephen North,
AT&T Research
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free, src available
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components for tool building
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A set of graph drawing tools for Unix or MS-Windows (win32). Designed
for visualizing structural information by constructing geometric
representations of abstract graphs and networks.
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HP OpenView Network
Management Solution
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HP OpenView
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commercial
(contact company for pricing)
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standalone tools
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Several tools for network monitoring and simulation,
including visualizations of monitored networks and
graphical real-time displays of activity.
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MRTG
(Multi Router Traffic Grapher)
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Tobias Oetiker
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free, src available
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standalone tool
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A tool to monitor the traffic load on network-links. Generates HTML
pages containing GIF images which provide a live visual representation
of this traffic.
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NAM
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VINT
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free, src available
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standalone tool
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A Tcl/TK based animation tool for viewing network simulation
traces and real world packet traces. It supports topology
layout, packet level animation, and various data inspection tools.
See research
using nam.
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NetBoy
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NDG Software
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commercial
(contact company for pricing)
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suite of tools
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A complete real-time visual Internet and LAN network monitoring suite.
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NetMaker
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Make Systems
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commercial
(contact company for pricing)
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standalone tools
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NetMaker tools and Network Planning processes are designed
to help customers with network planning, traffic analysis,
engineering and modeling needs. Customers purchase only
the tools and plug-ins that solve their specific needs.
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Otter
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CAIDA
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free, src available
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standalone tool
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A general purpose Java applet that can (theoretically) display any
type of networking data, using various layout methods/modules,
provided the user defines the dataset and attributes in an
Otter-compatible file format.
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Pajek
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Vladimir Batagelj, Andrej Mrvar
University of Ljubljani
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free
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standalone tool
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A program package, for Windows 95/NT, for analyzing large networks
(networks having thousands of vertices). The program is freely
available, for noncommercial use.
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Plankton
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CAIDA
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free, src available
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standalone tool
|
Plankton offers a visualization of the international cache
topology as seen from the perspective of the
NLANR root caches.
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RRD Tool
with frontends
Orca
and
Cricket
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RRD Tool: Tobias Oetiker
Orca: Blair Zajac
Cricket: Jeff Allen
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free, src available
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standalone with frontends available
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Round Robin Database (RRD) is a system to store and display
time-series data (i.e. network bandwidth, machine-room temperature,
server load average). To help with organization of data acquisition
and presentation, the frontends Orca and Cricket have been developed.
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Scotty
|
Juergen Schoenwaelder
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free, src available
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framework for custom tools
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Scotty is a software package which allows users to implement
site-specific network management software using high-level,
string-based APIs.
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Tom Sawyer Toolkits
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Tom Sawyer Software
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commercial
(contact company for pricing)
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components for custom tools
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Customizable graph layout and diagramming toolkits for
integration into other applications. A number of graph
layout algorithms and graph editing tools are
available.
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VisualRoute
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Datametrics
Systems Corporation
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commercial, $29
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standalone tool
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a visual integrated ping, whois, and traceroute program that
displays the results on a world map, with additional textual
information to help analyze connectivity problems.
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WhatRoute
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Bryan Christianson (IHUG)
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free
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standalone tool
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A Macintosh, Open Transport implementation of traceroute,
ping, DNS Query, Finger and Whois.
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Viznet
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NLANR/DAST
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free, src available
|
standalone tool
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A Java application to visualize network
bandwidth performance over time.
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Xtraceroute
|
Bjorn Augustsson,
NDG Software
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free, src available
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standalone tool
(requires graphics toolkits)
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A graphical version of traceroute, displayed on a rotating globe as
a series of yellow lines between 'sites', shown as small balls of
different colors.
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