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With so many web 2.0 startups running around with too many consonants in their name, it's hard for a traditional software startup to get some of the buzz that yet another youtube clone might. Today I am profiling Packet Analytics which provides a NetFlow search engine.

Packet Analytics is a startup based in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The company has an exclusive technology license from Los Almos National Labs for their proprietary NetFlow search engine. Given the high security demands of the nuclear weapons lab, this product has seen far more testing and usage than a typical software startup. Most software startups don't have their software running for 5 years at a customer's facility, much less a high profile one like Los Alamos. This means for an enterprise looking for a NetFlow analysis tool can know that the software can perform up to standards that far exceed their own. (If you don't know what NetFlow is, please read my link to the Wikipedia article.)

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