A traffic measurement system and a traffic analysis method are provided.
The traffic measurement system includes a plurality of measurement
devices that collect all of packets flowing through Internet links,
extract traffic data required to analyze traffic from the collected
packets, and process the extracted data into predetermined flow types,
and an analysis server that identifies applications of traffic by
analyzing the traffic data transferred from the plurality of measurement
devices as a whole, classifies the identified applications into
predetermined traffic types, and outputs the classification result. The
traffic measurement system measures the traffics in the Internet network
and processes the measured traffics to generate detailed traffic
statistical data according to applications. In particular, the traffics
are analyzed considering measurement data from various points, and the
data for identifying the applications are extracted from headers of the
applications included in payloads of IP packets in real time.
Accordingly, detailed traffic analysis result is provided.