Cisco Express Forwarding (Cisco term)

Caligare Flow Inspector

Cisco Systems, Inc. - It designs and sells networking and communications technology and services. Initially, Cisco manufactured only enterprise multi-protocol routers.

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Distributed Cisco Express Forwarding (Cisco term)

IP Flow Information Export. The IPFIX standards requirements were outlined in the original RFC 3917.

Multiprotocol Label Switching

Multi Router Traffic Grapher

Multilayer Switch Feature Card (Cisco term)

NetFlow Data Export - information about data flows are exported in UDP packets (called NDE) to the collector/analyzer.

NetFlow is an open network protocol developed by Cisco Systems to run on Cisco IOS-enabled equipment for collecting IP traffic information.

Policy Feature Card (Cisco term)

Stream Control Transmission Protocol (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stream_Control_Transmission_Protocol)

Virtual Routing and Forwarding - is a technology used in computer networks that allows multiple instances of a routing table to co-exist within the same router at the same time. Because the routing instances are independent, the same or overlapping IP addresses can be used without conflicting with each other.