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Modern digital security relies on public-key encryption (like RSA and ECC) to protect global data. The future arrival of a Cryptographically Relevant Quantum Computer (CRQC) will completely break these mathematical foundations. To…

ntop

July 11, 2025

New, Fast, Scalable ClickHouse Integration for High-Volume Networks

When it comes to monitoring very large networks and the flows' cardinality reaches into the billions, the performance of historical data storage and query systems becomes a critical bottleneck. Network operators, analysts,…

ntop

June 30, 2025

Network Visibility and Observability: ntopng vs SNMP+

Recently, we've encountered users with high monitoring requirements. Some users need to monitor 1,000 routers and want to know who are the top talkers or top protocols. Others have a network with…

ntop

May 23, 2025

HowTo Monitor+nDPI Traffic on Mikrotik Devices Using TZSP

Mikrotik devices are very popular in the ntop community. The simplest way to monitor traffic of these devices is using flows as described in this blog post. However sometimes flows might not…

ntop

May 12, 2025

PacketFest 2025 was an absolute blast!

PacketFest 2025 has been a great success. About 110 people, coming from more than 10 (European and overseas) countries, met in Zürich and attended the conference organized by ntop with support from…

nEdge

May 5, 2025

Released ntopng 6.4: More Insightful Than Ever

We're excited to announce a new ntopng stable release 6.4, a feature-packed update! With a strong focus on assets visibility and QoE monitoring. This version introduces groundbreaking new dashboards, advanced reporting, better…

Announce

April 30, 2025

Released Cento 2.2: Enhanced Flow Offload, QoE Metrics, and GTP Correlation

We're excited to announce a new release of Cento 2.2, our high-performance flow-based traffic processing engine. This release brings major enhancements in traffic analysis capabilities, particularly for mobile network monitoring, quality assessment,…

Announce

April 28, 2025

Released PF_RING 9.0.0: Fully Fledged Hardware Flow Tracking

This is to announce a new PF_RING release 9.0.0! This release brings significant improvements for a deeper flow tracking integrations, making PF_RING even more powerful for building high-performance flow processing networking applications…

ntop

March 26, 2025

Introducing Network Quality Measurement (QoE) in ntop Tools

Quality of Experience (QoE) measures how satisfied users are with a network service based on their subjective perception. Unlike Quality of Service (QoS), which focuses on technical metrics (e.g., latency, jitter, packet…

ntop

March 17, 2025

Announcing ntop Professional Training at ntop Conference (PacketFest) and June 2025

PacketFest will talk place in Zurich, Switzerland, on May 8-9 and it will be the event where the ntop and wireshark communities meet. On May 7th we organize for the ntop community…

Announce

February 17, 2025

Introducing the New Infrastructure Dashboard in ntopng

For this reason, some time ago we introduced the Infrastructure Monitoring in ntopng, as described in a previous blog post, which is the ability to use ntopng to monitor other ntopng instances,…

ntop

February 3, 2025

Using ntopng for Teaching Network Monitoring and Administration

ntop believes in education, research, and no-profit and for this reason ntop tools have been them offered free of charge. Today we're pleased to hear how they have helped young students to…

Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) Analysis

New, Fast, Scalable ClickHouse Integration for High-Volume Networks

Network Visibility and Observability: ntopng vs SNMP+

HowTo Monitor+nDPI Traffic on Mikrotik Devices Using TZSP

PacketFest 2025 was an absolute blast!

Released ntopng 6.4: More Insightful Than Ever

Released Cento 2.2: Enhanced Flow Offload, QoE Metrics, and GTP Correlation

Released PF_RING 9.0.0: Fully Fledged Hardware Flow Tracking

Introducing Network Quality Measurement (QoE) in ntop Tools

Announcing ntop Professional Training at ntop Conference (PacketFest) and June 2025

Introducing the New Infrastructure Dashboard in ntopng

Using ntopng for Teaching Network Monitoring and Administration