Characterizing corporate network traffic beyond bandwidth
Lukas Tanutama · 2014
Companies increasingly rely on Internet for effective and efficient business communication. As Information Technology (IT) provides the infrastructure backbone for business activities, a corporate network connects the company to Internet and enables it to perform its activities globally. The corporate carries data packets generated by the users' while performing their business tasks. Traditionally, the infrastructure operations mainly maintain the data carrying capacity and network devices performance. The research provides a simple method of mapping the business activity reflected by the network data. Modified Attribute Oriented Induction (AOI) approach mines the network data for mapping corporate users' activities. A frequency count was taken for each attributes of interest to show what happened in the network. The collected data were samples taken within a certain sampling period. based on the frequency count, we define four novel corporate network characteristics: Network Infrastructure characteristics, User Characteristics, Accessibility Characteristics, and Activity Characteristics. It can be concluded that the method could provide the management a general overview of the usage of its infrastructure and lead to efficient, effective and secure Information and Communication Technology (ICT) infrastructure.