Evaluating DDoS protection
at ITW 2026?
International Telecoms Week brings together 6,000+ carriers, ISPs, and data center operators. If DDoS detection is on your shortlist, here's the tool operators are switching to — $9.99/node/month, sub-second detection, BGP FlowSpec included, no dedicated hardware required.
Built for the ITW audience
Flowtriq is used by the same carriers, ISPs, and data centers that attend ITW every year.
The pricing reality
What FastNetMon actually costs in 2026
FastNetMon's new LiveView dashboard ($70/user/month) launched April 2026 — on top of their existing $115+/month Advanced license. Here's the real bill for a typical NOC team.
Advanced license (10G): $115/month. LiveView dashboard: $70/user/month × 3 users. Dedicated server: ~$100/month.
FastNetMon
- $115/mo base + $70/user/mo dashboard
- Dedicated server required (~$60–150/mo)
- 30–60s latency via NetFlow
- No PCAP forensics
- No L7 / HTTP flood detection
- No cloud API mitigations
- Trial by application only
Flowtriq — $9.99/node/month
- $9.99/node/month — unlimited users, dashboard included
- No dedicated server — runs on existing hosts
- <1s detection — kernel-level, unsampled
- PCAP with pre-attack ring buffer
- L7 HTTP flood detection
- Cloud API mitigations included
- 14-day free trial — no card, no application
Feature comparison
FastNetMon Advanced vs Flowtriq
The complete breakdown for carrier-grade network operators.
| Capability | FastNetMon Advanced + LiveView | Flowtriq |
|---|---|---|
| Detection | ||
| Detection method | NetFlow / sFlow / IPFIX (sampled) | Kernel-level per-packet, unsampled |
| Detection latency | 30–60s | <1 second |
| Attack classification | Flood type only | 7 families + confidence score |
| Botnet source flagging | No | 5,000+ known botnet sources |
| BGP & Mitigation | ||
| BGP RTBH blackhole | Yes | Yes |
| BGP FlowSpec | Advanced only | Included |
| Automated FlowSpec | Manual | Confidence-gated + auto-rollback |
| BGP speaker support | ExaBGP, GoBGP | ExaBGP, GoBGP, BIRD 2, FRRouting |
| iptables / nftables / XDP | Script-based | Automated (iptables, nftables, XDP/eBPF) |
| Forensics & Evidence | ||
| PCAP capture | Not available | Pre-attack ring buffer + analyzer |
| AI incident summaries | No | Yes |
| Automated postmortems | No | PDF / HTML / JSON |
| Operations | ||
| Web dashboard | +$70/user/mo add-on | Included, unlimited users |
| REST API | Advanced only | Included |
| Alert channels | Email + Slack | PagerDuty, OpsGenie, Teams, SMS, and more |
| Dedicated server required | Yes (~$60–150/mo) | No — agent on existing hosts |
For network engineers
How Flowtriq actually works
The technical stack — for operators who need to know before they deploy.
Kernel-level capture
Uses AF_PACKET + BPF filtering — every packet header inspected, unsampled, at line rate. No NetFlow dependency. No router configuration required.
Dynamic baselines
Per-node baselines built with sliding-window p99. Auto-learns in ~5 minutes. Handles diurnal traffic patterns and growth without manual threshold tuning.
BGP FlowSpec automation
Rules generated from attack classification + confidence score. Auto-rollback on confidence drop. Supports ExaBGP, GoBGP, BIRD 2, FRRouting.
PCAP ring buffer
Rolling pre-attack buffer flushed at incident declaration — packet-level evidence from before the attack peaked, attached to the incident record automatically.
Lightweight agent
<30 MB RAM, <0.1% CPU idle. systemd service. Any modern Linux (Ubuntu 20.04+, Debian 11+, CentOS 8+). No DPDK, no PF_RING, no kernel module required.
Multi-tenancy
Workspace-based RBAC (Owner, Admin, Analyst, Readonly). Carriers and MSPs manage customer nodes under separate workspaces with isolated alerting.
Deploy before ITW — no application required
14 days full access. No credit card. No bandwidth questionnaire. Deploy in 60 seconds on any Linux server you already operate.