flowchart LR
A[Network Traffic] --> B{Flow Technology}
B --> C[NetFlow]
B --> D[sFlow]
B --> E[IPFIX]
%% NetFlow
C --> C1[Developed by Cisco]
C --> C2[Flow-based Monitoring]
C --> C3[L3/L4 Metadata Export]
C --> C4[Traffic Analysis]
C --> C5[Capacity Planning]
%% sFlow
D --> D1[Developed by InMon]
D --> D2[Packet Sampling]
D --> D3[Interface Statistics]
D --> D4[High-Speed Networks]
D --> D5[Low Resource Usage]
%% IPFIX
E --> E1[IETF Standard]
E --> E2[Template-Based Export]
E --> E3[Extensible Fields]
E --> E4[Vendor Neutral]
E --> E5[Advanced Analytics]
%% Collection
C4 --> F[Flow Collector]
D4 --> F
E4 --> F
F --> G[Storage Database]
G --> H[Network Monitoring]
G --> I[Anomaly Detection]
G --> J[Malware Detection]
G --> K[Security Analytics]
G --> L[Traffic Engineering]
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