Interactive network active-traffic visualization (INAV) is a monitoring solution for use in real-time network environments, and is unique such that it only monitors the traffic that is currently active between nodes within a network and affords an intuitive visualization of that information - which consists of multiple layers of information/interaction. Several considerations exist that must be considered for this choice of research: to investigate and explore the problems and solutions associated with the visualization of large graphs amounts of data. Also to visualize the collected information without the problem of overwhelming the user, and particularly important is how to visualize the network infrastructure in real-time. Additionally, INAV is a useful tool designed for use by network administrators for the discovery of network traffic trends and behavior. This is relevant as the network administrator is responsible for the reliability and traffic between network segments, which is collected by utilizing passive scanning techniques.