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href="/products/netflow/allaboutqos.html" title="Quality of Service">Quality of Service</a></li> <li id="qst-qos"><a href="/products/netflow/app-qos-traffic-shaping.html" title="Application-level QoS Shaping">Application-level QoS Shaping</a></li> <li id="qst-qosmon"><a href="/products/netflow/cbqos.html" title="Class Based Qos Monitoring">Class Based QoS Monitoring</a></li> <li id="qst-validqos"><a href="/products/netflow/validating-qos-policies-with-cbqos.html" title="Validating QoS Policies">Validating QoS Policies</a></li> <li id="qst-qosconfig"><a href="/products/netflow/qos-configuration.html" title="Qos Configuration">QoS Configuration</a></li> </ul> </li> <li id="fea-nfm"><span>Reports</span> <ul> <li id="rep-tr"><a href="/products/netflow/netflow-analyzer-reports.html" title="Troubleshoot Reports">Troubleshoot Reports</a></li> <li id="rep-cb"><a href="/products/netflow/customizable-dashboard.html" title="Customizable Bandwidth">Customizable Bandwidth</a></li> <li id="rep-bur"><a href="/products/netflow/bandwidth-reports.html" title="Bandwidth Utilization Reports">Bandwidth Reports</a></li> <li id="rep-cpr"><a href="/products/netflow/capacity-planning-reports.html" title="Capacity Planning Reports">Capacity Planning Reports</a></li> <li id="rep-uccp"><a href="/products/netflow/cut-cost.html" title="Use case: Capacity Planning">Use Case: Capacity Planning</a></li> <li id="rep-br"><a href="/products/netflow/usage-based-billing.html" title="Billing Reports">Billing Reports</a></li> <li id="rep-sche"><a href="/products/netflow/scheduling-reports-using-netflow-analyzer.html" title="Scheduling Reports">Scheduling Reports</a></li> <li id="rep-search"><a href="/products/netflow/search-reports-gives-better-understanding-of-network-traffic.html" title="Search Reports">Search Reports</a></li> <li id="rep-waas"><a href="/products/netflow/cisco-waas-reports.html" title="Cisco WAAS reports">Cisco WAAS reports</a></li> <li id="rep-medianet"><a 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id="flow-netflowmon"><a href="/products/netflow/netflow-monitoring.html" title="NetFlow Monitoring Tools"> NetFlow Monitoring Tools </a></li> <li id="flow-ipfix"><a href="/products/netflow/ipfix-monitoring.html" title="IPFIX Monitoring">IPFIX Monitoring</a></li> <li id="flow-jflow"><a href="/products/netflow/j-flow-monitoring.html" title="Jflow Monitoring">JFlow Monitoring</a></li> <li id="flow-sflow"><a href="/products/netflow/sflow-analyzer.html" title="sflow Analyzer">sFlow Analyzer</a></li> <li id="sflow-nc"><a href="/products/netflow/netflow-collector.html" title="Netflow Collector">Netflow Collector</a></li> <li id="sflow-cisco"><a href="/products/netflow/cisco-netflow.html" title="Cisco NetFlow">Cisco NetFlow</a></li> <li id="sflow-whatisnetflow"><a href="/products/netflow/what-is-netflow.html" title="What is NetFlow?">What is NetFlow?</a></li> </ul> </li> <li id="fea-nfg"><span>Network Packet Sensor</span> <ul> <li id="nps"><a 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