Extensible Analytics and Recommendation Engine for Network Traffic Data

A system for analysis of network traffic data, the system comprising:

• a network having a plurality of network devices exchanging data;
• a network traffic management system coupled to the network for managing data traffic on the network;
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• a network traffic recommendation engine including a plug-in network data traffic analysis module, the network data traffic analysis module:
• obtaining selected network traffic data on the network;
• analyzing the selected network traffic data;
• and outputting a recommendation based on the selected network traffic data.

A network traffic analysis appliance for improving the efficiency of networked computers in processing data, the network traffic appliance comprising:

• a network recommendation engine;
• a storage device coupled to the network recommendation engine;
• a network interface to collect network traffic data when coupled to a network;
• a plug-in module executed by the network recommendation engine, the plug-in module reading data relating to network traffic, analyzing the data, and outputting a recommendation;
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• a quality of service controller routing network traffic in response to the recommendation to increase the processing efficiency of the network.