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WildPackets´ network analysis, monitoring and performance management solutions give you unprecedented visibility into your entire network infrastructure.
IT departments are working full-time to manage data centers, provision new applications, and respond to help desk requests. More than ever, IT managers and network administrators need solutions that let them monitor the entire network and troubleshoot problems wherever they are occurring, quickly and efficiently, so that business and other essential IT operations run smoothly.
The OmniPeek Distributed Analysis Suite offers both portable and distributed solutions for monitoring, analyzing, and optimizing enterprise networks and applications. And WatchPoint brings the data collection and Expert Analysis capabilities of the OmniPeek Distributed Analysis Suite to an entirely new level by offering unprecedented visibility into network traffic and
application performance
trends and behavior across the entire enterprise.
With our solutions, IT administrators can:
Rapidly resolve network issues in real-time, before they become major problems
Optimize network and application performance
Baseline the entire network to understand the impact of deploying new technologies, such as VoIP or video
Mitigate security threats
Improve overall end-user productivity
CIOs and Business Managers can:
Easily communicate service level compliance to the organization
Audit and track network activity for HR compliance violations
See the financial effect of new application deployments
Allocate IT Capital Expenditure budgets more efficiently
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Application Performance & Analysis
OmniPeek allows you to monitor application response time, round-trip network delay, server responsiveness, database transactions per second, and myriad other low-level statistics and introduces the Application Performance Index to standardize the overall assessment of user satisfaction.
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With so many different metrics being produced by so many tools, how can we normalize performance and diagnostic information into something meaningful - into something that ultimately characterizes the experience of end users on the network?
you can see an Application Performance score, drill down to the specific network traffic used to compute that score, and then use
OmniPeek´s Expert Analysis
and graphical tools such as
Packet Visualizer
to diagnose and correct any performance bottlenecks.
Lawful Intercept
WildPackets´ OmniPeek Distributed Analysis Suite combines deep packet inspection with real-time analytics for monitoring and intercept capabilities for local and internet communications.
For over a decade WildPackets has worked closely with law enforcement agencies and governments around the world to support CALEA, MITA and ETSI capture requirements with easy-to-use software and hardware solutions which can be easily and covertly installed on target networks. Capture internet, LAN, WAN and WiFi email and instant messenger (IM) communications and view payload data in clear text displays so it appears just like it would to the targeted user. Collected data can include a digital signature for secure processing for admission as evidence.
WildPackets provides software and services to support law enforcement agencies and network service providers who must comply with court orders for electronic surveillance. Our Lawful Intercept software package takes the form of specialized "Plug-in" applications that perform deep packet inspection (
) within the WildPackets OmniPeek Network Analyzer.
These plug-ins are designed to conform to the legal requirements for lawful electronic surveillance, built on the foundation of requirements from government agencies and end-users of this data. Law enforcement agencies seek/receive a court order to monitor target(s) on the network. The court grants a specific level of permissible surveillance. The WildPackets Lawful Intercept software package is configurable to comply with permissible levels. WildPackets lawful intercept reports have an excellent record of standing up in court as compelling, admissible evidence.
Lawful Intercept Support Package (LISP)
WildPackets standard technical support services are not applicable for the Lawful Intercept software package. To meet the specific needs of our customers in this market, WildPackets has developed a customized support package that specifically addresses the use and maintenance of the Lawful Intercept software package. This customized support service combines phone support, minor enhancements and maintenance, all managed through our technical experts in the Custom Integration Engineering group. This provides the best level of support for customers in this highly specialized field.
LISP Plug-in´s:
Email Capture Analysis Module (SMTP & POP3) - Pen Register or Full Capture Analysis
Can reconstruct email or attachments from Outlook, or other email clients
Web-based Email Capture Analysis Modules
Performs capture and monitoring of email from web based email clients such as Yahoo and Hotmail.
IP Pen Register Analysis Module
Filters and generates a summary of IP network traffic
Radius Monitor and Capture Analysis Module
Filters and monitors RADIUS network traffic
Tag Filter
Used to capture all traffic on one or more
Remote TCPDump Adapter
Connects to remote machines through SSH and runs TCPDump for remote access and monitoring.
Instant Messenger Analysis Module
Displays and reports on AOL Instant Messenger (AIM), Microsoft Messenger (MSN) and Yahoo! Messenger (Yahoo).
DHCP Capture Analysis Module
Captures IP traffic to and from specific target users.
VOIP Media Capture Analysis Module
Captures VoIP traffic from specific IP of target users, and extracts media stream data from VoIP calls and saves the data to .wav files.
FTP Capture Analysis Module
Monitors FTP sessions and captures FTP communications of an operator defined list of target user names.
Deploying & Testing Applications
Network performance analysis capabilities of OmniPeek provide immediate feedback on how new applications behave on the network and can predict the impact to existing, business-critical applications.
Whenever a new application is rolled out on the network, IT must be able to predict with confidence how it will perform for the business. Moreover, other mission-critical applications must not be negatively impacted. Is further network investment justified, and where?
A health care provider planned to roll out a wireless network for voice and data for every doctor across a campus environment. The implementation involved new and existing infrastructure and the introduction of a new wireless 'bedside' application.
Our Solution
OmniPeek Enterprise
OmniPeek Connect
Omnipliance Network Recorder
WildPackets products were deployed in a sample, representative environment. Immediately, the network engineers were able to report on everything from issues with the handhelds dropping packets at the edge to backend issues involving slow SQL queries against the database.
In addition, WildPackets networking experts were able to extrapolate the data and provide a predictive model for how the new application would perform across the entire campus. How many doctors? How fast? Where are the bottlenecks? This was invaluable to a successful launch and the future measurements of success for the business and its IT department.
Business Benefits
Provides detailed information through all seven layers of the OSI model
Quickly identify if the network is being stressed and where
Immediate feedback on how new applications behave on the network
Audit new development and implementations
Predict impact to existing, business-critical applications
Provide critical insight on network bottlenecks, areas to invest
Distributed Networks
OmniPeek Enterprise supports both local and remote data capture and analysis, making it the perfect solution for distributed network analysis.
Geographically distributed companies can no longer deal with network issues 'the old-fashioned' way - sending network engineers to physically visit a site with dedicated test hardware, generating data that can only be analyzed locally. This is too expensive, far too time consuming and functionally limits the analysis capability to a single individual. Organizations of all sizes are geographically distributed today. They require a distributed network management and analysis solutions that can seamlessly extend to remote locations so network administrators can monitor, analyze, and troubleshoot their entire network without having to leave their office.
A logistics company with several satellite offices needed to enable the core
(network operations center) to view and troubleshoot remote network segments, while offering the same functionality to individuals in the field and to network engineers or employees that may be resident at the remote site. The solution was also required to provide multi-tier, multi-topology analysis to improve the time-to-resolution for each network issue.
Our Solution
OmniPeek Enterprise
OmniPeek Connect
Omnipliance Network Recorder
The solution for this customer was quite straightforward. OmniPeek Enterprise supports both local and remote data capture and analysis, making it the perfect solution. Omnipliance Network Recorders are strategically deployed both within the
and at each remote office. Analysts at the
use OmniPeek Enterprise Connect on a local machine to attach to the remote Omnipliance and perform data collection and analysis. Users outside of the
use OmniPeek Enterprise to view the same network traffic locally, and can also use OmniPeek Enterprise for detailed analysis of their own.
Business Benefits
Real-time data and analysis vs. recreating issues post-case
Data is easily shared, bringing problems to resolution more quickly
Distributed network analysis reduces and can even eliminate the need for "distributed" network engineers every time a problem occurs at a remote office
Network Baselining
Baselining is the process of recording network traffic and performance and saving the data for future reference or reviewing it for network performance analysis.
Once baselines are saved, they can be used as a benchmark with which to compare other traffic patterns. WatchPoint, together with OmniPeek Enterprise and Omnipliance Network Recorders, make it easy to baseline your network and application performance characteristics and then be immediately notified should anomalies occur or thresholds be exceeded.
Baselining provides the network administrator insight into expected behavior on the network and subsequently, the ability to notice changes to the environment. To be clear, people often think of expected behavior as always being good traffic, meaning that expected behavior of a network reflects when everything is running perfectly. This is incorrect. Think of "expected behavior" as known versus unknown traffic.
By understanding the behavior of a network and what has happened historically, with WildPackets solutions one can almost immediately solve problems that arise. Baselining makes it easier to identify network attacks (internal or external) and even the people causing problems on the network, such as downloading movies at work. Without a basis of comparison, how do you determine the difference between good and bad on the network?
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There are many macro-level baselines to consider - How much bandwidth is going out to the Internet? How much bandwidth is in the core? - and many more granular views - How many people are talking to a particular network? What protocols are going across the network? How much bandwidth does a particular application use in general? What is our latency on the network for said application? The list goes on and on.
Our Solution
OmniPeek Enterprise - Network Analyzer
No matter what baselines you choose to implement, the overall strategy remains the same: it is important to understand the baselines and the benchmarks of the particular application servers, clients on the network, and the overall health of the network from a utilization perspective. With WatchPoint, OmniPeek Enterprise, and Omnipliance Network Recorders, you'll have all the tools you need for your initial baselining efforts, as well as your ongoing network performance optimization activities.
Network Forensics
IT personnel utilize network forensics to analyze historical network traffic in order to conduct investigations for security attack analysis, HR compliance, business transaction analysis, and pinpointing the source of intermittent performance issues.
With the
OmniPeek Distributed Analysis Suite
you can capture up to 8 Terabytes with our
Omnipliance Core Network Recorder
. For an unlimited amount of storage, simply connect an Omnipliance to a Storage Area Network (SAN) and analyze events that occurred hours, days, weeks, or even months ago.
Sure you´ve heard of network forensics to tackle cyber attacks. Who hasn´t? And you´ve probably used it yourself to solve a network security problem or troubleshoot an intermittent problem. But that´s not all network forensics can do.
If you´re not already reaching for network forensics to address a pesky intermittent network issue, benchmark application performance for SLAs, or investigate a data breach, you may soon be.
With more businesses relying on the cloud for their IT infrastructure or to deliver their service/products to customers, it´s crucial to be monitoring both operations and the infrastructure. While the network has become more reliable, reliance on web-based and cloud-served applications or storage has lead to more frequent outages of that infrastructure - for example, a Web-based code hosting service that relied on Amazon´s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) came crashing down to earth due to a denial-of-service (
) attack.
Get ready now, because if you wait, it´ll be too late. Now - before a specific event actually happens - is the time to start collecting digital evidence and equip yourself to find that needle in the haystack.
When you´re searching through gigabytes or terabytes of data, these unique WildPackets features make the difference between a quick, convenient search and a laborious, time-consuming search involving multiple tools and large transfers of data:
Support for frame decodes during capture
Support for on-the-fly capture filters
Support for Selected Related filters
Support for name table entry and aliases
Support for multiple simultaneous capture windows
Ability to sort by number of problems, top talkers, most delays, etc.
Ability to organize flows by application type
Ability to organize flows by client/server pair
Ability to capture from multiple simultaneous
Ability to capture from 802.11 wireless LANs
Ability to store packets in a MySQL database
Conversation Map at the point of capture
Built-in Experts for recognizing security attacks such as Gin, Jolt, Land, Oversize IP, and WinNuke
While other network forensics products force you to capture with one product, then transfer gigabytes or terabytes of data to another product for analysis, the our solution enables you to analyze data at the point of capture, and eliminates the need for large data transfers that consume time and bandwidth. By utilizing Intelligent Data Transport™, the OmniPeek Distributed Analysis Suite minimizes traffic loads on the network and lets you find the data you´re looking for, quickly and easily.
The Compass Dashboard Extension for OmniPeek Enterprise
Compass for OmniPeek Enterprise is an interactive dashboard for post-capture forensics on large quantities of wired and wireless network traffic. Compass employs a gorgeous looking interactive graph, allowing you to visualize and interact with utilization statistics from large quantities of network data, before actually loading a specific time range of packets.
When you have captured very large quantities of network traffic, it is difficult to know where to start your fornesics analysis. It is like a shot in the dark, or like finding a needle in a haystack. You can either open individual trace files one at a time, or run a time consuming forensics search. Both of these techniques assume you have a clue about what to search for. The problem is that often times, you may not have a clue yet.
With Compass for OmniPeek, you can see the utilization, nodes, and protocols for large quantities of network traffic in a visually stunning and interactive graph, without having to load the packets first. In other words, you can see the "when", the "who", and the "what".
Compass is available as a free extension for OmniPeek Enterprise with maintenance.
Download it from MyPeek here
Human Resources Compliance
Network forensics allows you to gather the digital evidence for HR compliance investigations.
Is something wrong happening on your network? You suspect that an employee is violating a company policy. Perhaps this person is harassing other employees on IM or leaking information to competitors through Webmail. Perhaps the person is accessing porn sites or running a file-sharing service on a company server. Or perhaps the person is sharing confidential customer information in violation of industry standards such as Gramm-Leach-Bliley or HIPAA.
Your organization has policies about this - and your industry may have regulations that pertain as well. You need to ensure these policies are complied with - or you need to collect evidence to take action when they´re not.
When you suspect something is wrong, do you have the means to conduct an investigation? How do you collect the right digital evidence when there are so many channels of communication (email, Web mail, IM, etc.), and so many places to look on your network?
Time for Network Forensics. With an
Omnipliance Network Recorder
, network traffic is collected 24/7 and stored in a common, searchable format - email, IM, VoIP, FTP, HTMP, peer-to-peer protocols or anything else. OmniPeek then provides access to those terabytes of information with high-level analysis.
Intermittent Issues
To troubleshoot an intermittent network issue you need to capture and analyze historical network traffic data. WildPackets' solutions provide the right tools for the job.
If you have users that are complaining about a problem that occurs only intermittently it can be hard to to pin down the issue even if you monitor your network regularly. With WatchPoint and the OmniPeek Distributed Analysis Suite, you can capture network traffic for several hours, days, or even months and have the data you need to identify the problem and fix it.
OmniPeek Enterprise - Network Analyzer
Omnipliance Network Recorder
Hours or even days of network traffic collected by a single system and stored in a common, searchable format
Access to WildPackets' award-winning Expert Analysis, graphical reports, and application performance scoring
Flexible data collection - focus on a specific user or server, or collect all data on a network segment for future inspection
A single interface provides access to terabytes of data
Collect comprehensive data - anything that cross the network, whether email, IM, VoIP, FTP, HTML, or some other application or protocol
High-level analysis tools eliminate the need for brute-force analysis from disparate data sources
Cyber Security Attack Analysis
With the OmniPeek Distributed Analysis Suite, data is always available for reconstruction for easy analysis of cyber attacks and network security breaches.
Between 2008 and 2009, reported cyberattacks on U.S. government computer networks climbed 40% and tracked accounts of unauthorized access to government computers and installations of hostile programs rose 140% (from 3,928 combined incidents in 2007 to 5,488 in 2008).
And attacks aren´t limited to just the government sector. Cyber criminals can purchase access to botnets to steal data or worse. In June approximately 100,000 domains, including corporate domains from around the world were identified as part of the Golden Cash network.
Recently cyber criminals targeted South Korean and US government sites as well as popular social networking sites such as Twitter and Facebook, causing temporary outages. A 2009 Security Mega Trends Survey reported that 92% of respondents reported that their companies have had a cyber attack. As criminals get smarter and more savvy with their attacks, being able to detect and characterize attacks - whether they've just begun or occurred days ago - is crucial. Are you prepared?
All pertinent network traffic is collected in a single location, rather than scattered across the network. Data is captured in a common data format and does not need to be transferred or translated in any way for analysis. Using the network forensics data mining tools, security teams can reconstruct the sequence of events that occur at the time of a network breach or cyber attack and get the complete picture.
The NOC of a medium-sized online retailer suspected a network breach, and immediately contacted the Chief Security Officer. The CSO knew she must quickly determine:
What damage has been done?
Who was the intruder?
How did the intruder penetrate our security?
Did the intruder leave other dangers behind? Worms? Trojan horse?
Did we collect sufficient data to analyze and reproduce the attack?
In the past when the CSO and her staff suspected that a breach had occurred, they found themselves having to collect diverse types of data, with different formats, from a multitude of sources such as firewall logs, router logs, Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS), server logs, hard drives and system dumps. This resulting hodge-podge of data could not be easily recompiled into a coherent picture, forcing the team had to take a guess about the breach.
Using the OmniPeek Distributed Analysis Suite, the CSO and her team were now able to capture, analyze and reconstruct the network traffic on demand. This examination of individual conversations and their component packets allowed the CSO to quickly reconstruct the sequence of events that were occurring during the time of the suspected network breach.
The deployed solution included the following:
OmniPeek Enterprise
for remote data monitoring and analysis
Omnipliance Network Recorder
for line-rate capture and long-term storage of network traffic
Transaction Analysis
Server logs are useful, but for an even more accurate view into online transactions, major online banking and financial organizations trust the OmniPeek Distributed Analysis Suite for network forensics.
Whether you're monitoring your own operations or demonstrating your compliance to the SLAs you've signed with customers, you need digital evidence of business transactions. Network traffic provides the audit trail and Network Forensics using the
OmniPeek Distributed Analysis Suite
provides the evidence.
The merchant services division of a major bank is using a WildPackets
Omnipliance Network Recorder
to capture and store traffic containing credit card authorizations.
When a bank customer, such as an online retailer, contacts the bank with questions about a specific transaction, the bank's data center team can use OmniPeek Enterprise´s network forensics search capabilities to find and analyze the relevant transaction. The bank can then quickly determine whether the authorization or denial was transmitted correctly.
Network Performance Analysis Flows
WildPackets offers a range of
distributed network performance analysis products
that integrate with NetFlow, sFlow, and SNMP from devices already on your network. From our
OmniPeek Portable Network Analyzer
, to our
OmniEngine Software Probe
, to
, our solutions provide you with a clear and affordable path to follow as your needs grow, that leverages incremental investments in our products along the way.
In this tough economy, IT departments are downsizing and at the same time becoming responsible for larger and more distributed networks, with fewer resources than ever before. It's a tough job to continuously analyze the performance of all these networks, and as this trend continues, teams are looking for better ways to perform network performance analysis remotely, without having to travel and be onsite. Also if there is a problem, teams ideally would like to perform network troubleshooting remotely as well.
Does this sound like what is happening at your company? If so, you have also probably been given a shoestring budget with which to work. The good news is you most likely already have the infrastructure in place for remote network performance analysis and remote network troubleshooting. The network performance analysis piece is made possible by devices, such as routers and switches, that support NetFlow, sFlow, and SNMP. The network troubleshooting piece is made possible by all of the Linux boxes already on your network. The glue that turns all of these devices and standards into a network performance analysis solution are WildPackets products.
If you already have OmniPeek Enterprise with maintenance, then you also already have access to the NetFlow Analyzer and sFlow Analyzer Plug-ins on MyPeek. What are the NetFlow and sFlow Analyzer Plug-ins? They are a viable option for a stepping stone or entry point for those customers who would like to monitor NetFlow or sFlow, but are not yet ready to make the bigger investment in a dedicated WatchPoint Appliance and NetFlow Collector Appliance. This solution is an amazing value, because it leverages your existing investment in WildPacket´s flagship product, and uses the same UI to monitor network performance analysis through NetFlow and SFlow as you are used to for packet capture and analysis.
If you have taken the next step, and have purchased an OmniEngine software probe, or are planning to, then you have the same benefits of leveraging your investment, and of being able to use the OmniEngine NetFlow Analysis Plug-in. The primary benefit of this solution is a centralized and permanent collection point for your NetFlow data. Like the OmniPeek Console, you also have the benefit of using the same UI for NetFlow analysis that you already use for packet capture and analysis. Unlike other dedicated NetFlow products, the OmniEngine software probe has many network capture and monitoring uses, making it an amazing value. Furthermore, the purchase of OmniEngines leverages your existing investment in the OmniPeek Enterprise Console, which is the primary UI for the OmniEngine.
And finally, when you are ready for a dedicated Network Performance Analysis appliance, WildPackets offers
Below is a summary of each of each solution in the path as your needs grow:
NetFlow OmniPeek Enterprise Console Plug-in:
Runs in the OmniPeek Enterprise console. Useful for short-term monitoring of NetFlow. Benefits include higher ROI as it leverages your existing investment in OmniPeek and lower TCO because it uses the same UI with which OmniPeek customers are already familiar.
NetFlow OmniEngine Plug-in:
Provides a centralized collection point for NetFlow data. Like any OmniEngine data, the NetFlow statistics are accessible remotely from the OmniPeek Console. Benefits are the same as for the console plug-in, with the additional benefit of a stationary service to which NetFlow-enabled switches and routers can be configured to send NetFlow.
NetFlow Collector for WatchPoint:
Delivers everything you´d expect withNetFlow monitoring, and then some. WatchPoint aggregates statistics from multiple collectors into a database for long term monitoring, and makes that data accessible from a Web 2.0 style web-based user interface.
Network Performance Management
WildPackets offers industry leading network performance management tools.
An accurate picture of key network metrics as they change over time can be an invaluable tool. Not only is this essential for resource planning, but it can also help managers to head off trouble before it starts in earnest. This can be as simple as identifying new applications that may soon be using enough bandwidth to have a serious impact on network performance. Fluctuations in the network resources used by a particular process may be transient, or they may signal a real change in user behavior. Good trending statistics can help to distinguish one case from the other, and help network managers plan accurately to meet user needs.
Network Performance Management through Monitoring and Problem Detection
A large part of the network manager´s job consists of watching for variances from normal. Not every anomaly is a problem, but every problem stems from an anomaly (or at least, that´s the ideal).
WatchPoint and the OmniPeek Distributed Analysis Suite make it easy to manage your network performance, day in, day out. Network statistics such as over-all utilization, counts of nodes and protocols, error rates, and so forth provide a quick overview of basic network functions. In many environments, managers may want items such as these to be displayed continuously or refreshed at frequent intervals throughout the day.
Individual applications or processes may also require a continuous or very frequent update and display, particularly at times and places where these processes are heavily loaded. DHCP and email servers, for example, are often under their heaviest load for a brief period at the start of a work day. The OmniPeek Distributed Analysis Suite automates the process of collecting, displaying and saving statistics on particular processes, as well as on the network as a whole. For example, you could use OmniPeek to automate the capture and calculation of statistics on all DHCP traffic on a segment, then save the statistics as HTML files every five minutes between 7:45 a.m. and 8:30 a.m., allowing you to check the most current DHCP statistics from any connected machine.
The Importance of Detecting Network Problems
The object of continuous or frequent network monitoring is to spot problems as they occur. Sometimes a user complaint about lost or degraded service is the first sign of trouble. This is not what network managers want. Ideally, they would like to be able to identify and correct problems before users notice through effective network performance management. When a problem is identified by a user, it is still necessary to refine the definition of the problem, and a
network analyzer like OmniPeek
are crucial tools in that process. There are a great variety of problems that can come up in any LAN or WLAN.
One example of a acute problem is the complete failure of a server or application process, or degradation to the point that workflows are seriously impaired or interrupted. Unlike intermittent problems, they don´t (as if by magic) appear to resolve themselves. Unlike chronic problems, they can be resolved immediately.
Alarms are an excellent tool for watching for signs of failure or serious stress in key network and application processes. OmniPeek lets you set two-stage alarms on any statistics item. Statistics in OmniPeek are calculated on a full range of protocols covering all the leading network protocols and many of the most widely used applications, including SQL (multiple versions), and VoIP, video and wireless.
In OmniPeek the Expert function can diagnose particular types of failure in a variety of important application and network processes. The Expert not only identifies problems as they occur, but makes it easy to immediately identify the source of trouble. The Expert can even suggest typical solutions to the problems it diagnoses.
Network Security
WildPackets network monitoring solution gives IT administrators the ability to locate and trace the source of virus outbreaks.
/IPS systems and other security solutions fail to provide network engineers with the details they need to locate and correct the source of an attack. Without detailed network analysis, security solutions are incomplete. Firewalls and other perimeter defenses do not provide enterprise networks with the protection they need from viruses, DoS attacks, and other forms of malware. Especially in the age of mobile users, laptops, and wireless networking, the danger facing networks comes from the inside.
A mid-sized company continued to suffer from virus outbreaks on the corporate network, despite their best efforts to quarantine mysterious emails and other traffic at the firewall. As it turned out, most of these outbreaks occurred when well-intentioned company employees infected their laptops at home, and then returned to the office.
Our Solution
OmniPeek Enterprise
OmniPeek Connect
Omnipliance Network Recorder
With the WildPackets solution, network administrators can monitor for specific virus fingerprints anywhere on the network, all day, and every day. They will receive immediate notification via email, SMTP, or custom method when a security breach occurs, then trace the spread and source of each infection.
When integrated with a system from WildPackets´ partner A10 Networks, OmniPeek reports up-to-the-moment authentication information about the users launching and suffering from attacks. For example, network engineers can immediately see that the source of a SYN flood is firstname.lastname@example.com, rather than an anonymous IP address.
Business Benefits
Real-time Identification of attacks and their sources
Security policy can be implemented from a single, central location and applied consistently across the entire network
Network Troubleshooting
Effective network troubleshooting solutions must identify issues in real time, the first time.
The Performance Capacity Planning group at a large corporation was overwhelmed. The most common call to the Helpdesk boiled down to this: "the network is slow." Due to limited troubleshooting and analysis tools in the Helpdesk organization, trouble tickets were routinely escalated to the Performance Capacity Planning group. Schedules were slipping in the deployment of core infrastructure upgrades because network engineers were dropping these tasks to focus on escalated trouble tickets. Meanwhile, users´ problems went unsolved because the network conditions that existed at the time problems were reported had changed considerably.
Our Solution
OmniPeek Enterprise
OmniPeek Connect (for Helpdesk Analysts)
OmniEngine Enterprise (for Performance Capacity Planning Personnel)
OmniEngine Desktop for all client machines
Omnipliance Network Recorder
The WildPackets solution incorporated real-time data collection, with both real-time and post-capture analysis, provided by the OmniPeek Distributed Analysis Suite. Data is collected from appropriate network nodes, and available to all network engineers within the escalation chain.
Helpdesk analysts now initiate real-time data collection at the time and place where the problem is reported, and employ OmniPeek Enterprise's intuitive graphical interface monitor and analyze the issue in real time. Escalations are significantly reduced. However, when the occasional escalation is required, the Performance Capacity Planning group has access to the same, real-time data that was collected at the time the problem was reported. They can also initiate new captures remotely; either at the end-user´s machine by connecting to the OmniEngine Desktop client or by connecting directly to the Omnipliance Network Recorder, deeper in the network core to determine the root cause of performance issues.
Business Benefits
End-user problems resolved quickly and efficiently, increasing end-user productivity and satisfaction
Helpdesk trouble-ticket time-to-resolution rates decreased significantly, resulting in greater productivity and increased job satisfaction
Escalation volume decreased leaving core network engineers free to focus on value-added installations
Product Development Support
OmniPeek Professional allows developers to efficiently troubleshoot and analyze network performance issues during product development and testing, allowing real product deficiencies to be separated from environmental issues and product changes to be quickly analyzed.
When debugging new products during development, the nagging question is always, "Is the problem I´m seeing in my design or in the tool I´m using for debugging?" Debugging problems in state-of-the-art hardware development projects often requires access to detailed, low-level network protocol data for problem identification and analysis. It is imperative to troubleshoot your hardware-under-development with a highly trustworthy and accurate tool, to eliminate false positives.
A Silicon Valley start-up was developing a new wireless communication device specifically for the medical industry. Upon receipt of the first prototypes, testing indicated serious performance problems that were well below the design specification. Were these problems due to the hardware design, the wireless environment or the testing tools themselves?
Our Solution
OmniPeek Professional
Roaming Latency Plug-in
Wireless Aggregator Plug-in
This company needed a highly reliable product capable of capturing and analyzing all wireless traffic. Not just a monitoring tool that displays the current, statistical view of the wireless environment, but a product capable of reliably collecting each and every wireless packet, and analyzing this data both in real-time and post-capture. This company equipped each of its development engineers with a copy of OmniPeek Professional, coupled with some our advanced plug-ins providing a portable wireless test and analysis solution capable of distinguishing wireless environment issues from product design issues. The solution also gave the engineers valuable information to help them build a more robust solution capable of high-quality operation even when faced with difficult wireless environment conditions.
Efficiency in the development process is critical. Time spent troubleshooting during the development phase either takes away from time spent on additional new functionality, or adds significant costs and schedule delays to the product. OmniPeek Professional is the network performance analysis solution for troubleshoot issues during product development and testing.
Business Benefits
Debugging proceeds rapidly and confidently
Product quality increases through the identification and analysis of low-level networking anomalies
Support for the most current network protocols, along with all legacy protocols, enables deep regression testing during state-of-the-art product development
VoIP Monitoring and Analysis
OmniPeek Enterprise is the only network analyzer offering real-time VoIP monitoring and analysis combined with Ethernet, Wireless, 10GbE, Gigabit, and WAN.
With next generation networks in place and businesses rolling out more end user VoIP applications, network engineers need the ability to analyze all network traffic with specific analysis of VoIP calls. OmniPeek Enterprise allows engineers to determine when different types of traffic adversely affect each other.
VoIP presents a daunting set of challenges.
VoIP dramatically increases the pressure on network engineers to resolve problems quickly. Why? Because end users who might tolerate slow performance from a business application will have no patience for garbled or interrupted phone calls. Telephone calls remain essential to business. VoIP failures can bring business conversations-and business itself-to a halt. By disrupting sales, support, press, and investor conversations, VoIP can irrevocably damage a company´s business relationships and professional image.
VoIP requires network engineers to immediately become experts at telephony and voice technology. VoIP services can be degraded by VoIP application and protocol problems, by basic network problems, or by a combination of both. Until recently, most network engineers had to choose between network analyzers and VoIP analyzers-no tool integrated both types of analysis in a useful and affordable way. As a result, no engineer had all the monitoring and analysis technology necessary to find and fix faults on VoIP networks.
Most VoIP monitoring and troubleshooting products are hardware-based, proprietary, expensive, and too bulky to be portable. Cumbersome, hardware-based solutions increase the expense of VoIP deployments and make it difficult for engineers to diagnose problems on site. When monitoring and troubleshooting tools become too expensive, they may be dropped from the deployment budget entirely, leaving network engineers without any solution for finding and fixing VoIP faults.
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For organizations deploying VoIP, the WildPackets Network Analysis Solutions blend the abilities to monitor and analyze all network traffic with specific analysis of VoIP calls allowing you to determine when different types of traffic adversely affect each other. OmniPeek Enterprise is the only network analyzer offering Ethernet, Wireless, 10GbE, Gigabit, WAN, and Voice and Video over IP diagnostics in real-time.
Without any expensive voice processing hardware, OmniPeek Enterprise can monitor and analyze open calls - providing unsurpassed capacity for post-deployment VoIP troubleshooting. At a glance, you have in-depth analysis of latency, throughput, and numerous network problems in a conversation-centered display. You can see all the calls in the order in which they were captured, with caller, callee, and end cause information, as well as comprehensive signaling analysis of SIP, Cisco Skinny, MEGACO, etc. OmniPeek Enterprise also evaluates and displays the call setup mechanism, in real-time, measuring call setup durations and providing a Call Detail Record (CDR) for each open call.
A large brick-and-mortar retailer depended on wireless VoIP on their sales floors to enable sales associates to handle both floor traffic and telephone inquiries. After performing extensive, and expensive, site surveys at their facilities, they believed that access points had been optimally placed and secured using non-overlapping channels, highly-secure encryption and dedicated switches for the APs. Initial call quality was on par with Ethernet-attached VoIP phones in the store offices, but before long, call quality began to degrade, to the point of dropped calls and increasing customer dissatisfaction. Using OmniPeek Enterprise as the console to monitor the expert data, the customer was able to quickly identify a key weakness in their deployment - Quality of Service (QoS) had not been implemented at the 802.11 layer, meaning that voice packets were competing with data packets for network priority. The customer corrected this deficiency, and rolled out OmniPeek Enterprise at all of their stores to monitor and analyze the wireless network in real-time, and identify and correct problems before they became critical.
Business Benefits
Monitoring and analysis of all wireless traffic on a network to mitigate poor performance generated by competition for network bandwidth
Verification of call quality, including the use of R-Factor and MOS scores, using the same tool deployed for overall network analysis and monitoring
Ongoing compliance with established network policies to mitigate critically disruptive VoIP problems
Video Monitoring and Analysis
OmniPeek Enterprise is the only network analyzer offering real-time Video over IP monitoring and analysis combined with VoIP, Ethernet, Wireless, 10GbE, Gigabit, and WAN.
With next generation networks in place and businesses rolling out more end user Video over IP applications, network engineers need the ability to analyze all network traffic with specific analysis of Video streams. OmniPeek Enterprise allows engineers to determine when different types of traffic adversely affect each other.
Video over IP presents a daunting set of challenges
Video over IP dramatically increases the pressure on network engineers to resolve problems quickly. Why? Because end users who might tolerate slow performance from a business application will have no patience for garbled or interrupted video and audio streams. Carrying professional video over IP networks has special challenges compared to most non-time-critical IP traffic. Many of these problems are similar to those encountered in voice over IP, but to a much higher level of engineering requirements. In particular, there are very strict quality of service requirements which must be fulfilled for use in professional broadcast environments.
Video over IP requires network engineers to immediately become experts at video technology. Video over IP services can be degraded by Video and Audio application and protocol problems, by basic network problems, or by a combination of both. Until recently, most network engineers had to choose between network analyzers and Voice and Video over IP analyzers-no tool integrated both types of analysis in a useful and affordable way. As a result, no engineer had all the monitoring and analysis technology necessary to find and fix faults on Video over IP networks.
Most Video over IP monitoring and troubleshooting products are hardware-based, proprietary, expensive, and too bulky to be portable. Cumbersome, hardware-based solutions increase the expense of Video over IP deployments and make it difficult for engineers to diagnose problems on site. When monitoring and troubleshooting tools become too expensive, they may be dropped from the deployment budget entirely, leaving network engineers without any solution for finding and fixing Video over IP faults.
Video over IP Monitoring and Analysis with OmniPeek
For organizations deploying Video over IP, the WildPackets Network Analysis Solutions blend the abilities to monitor and analyze all network traffic with specific analysis of Video streams allowing you to determine when different types of traffic adversely affect each other. OmniPeek Enterprise is the only network analyzer offering Ethernet, Wireless, 10GbE, Gigabit, WAN, and Voice and Video over IP diagnostics in real-time.
Without any expensive video processing hardware, OmniPeek Enterprise can monitor and analyze open video streams - providing unsurpassed capacity for post-deployment Video over IP troubleshooting. At a glance, you have in-depth analysis of latency, throughput, and numerous network problems in a conversation-centered display. You can see all the streams in the order in which they were captured, with caller, callee, and end cause information, as well as comprehensive signaling analysis of H.261, H.263, H.264, MPEG, etc. OmniPeek Enterprise also evaluates and displays the call setup mechanism, in real-time, measuring stream setup durations and providing a Call Detail Record (CDR) for each open stream.
Business Benefits
Monitoring and analysis of all wireless traffic on a network to mitigate poor performance generated by competition for network bandwidth
Verification of video quality, including the use of MOS and Video Service Quality scores, using the same tool deployed for overall network analysis and monitoring
Ongoing compliance with established network policies to mitigate critically disruptive Video over IP problems
Wireless Network Analysis
WildPackets has a complete offering to address wireless network monitoring and analysis, from the wireless network edge all the way to the data center.
For the simple convenience of guest access, or for mission-critical network services, constant monitoring and analysis of your wireless network is required to maintain user satisfaction and to keep your organization safe and secure. As more companies begin using wireless as a primary medium for data services, including VoIP and video, a network analysis solution that can provide Expert analysis for both wired and wireless segments, simultaneously, is fast becoming a requirement.
With WatchPoint and The OmniPeek Distributed Analysis Suite, WildPackets addresses the need for portable, simultaneous analysis of wired and wireless network segments, including full support for 802.11n, and for remote monitoring and analysis of both wired and wireless segments.
There are many metrics out there for the cost of network outages, and they all agree in one fundamental way - they are costly! WildPackets solutions dramatically reduce the time to perform real-time root cause analyses of these problems, significantly reducing the costs of network outages.
Wireless users at the headquarters of a large healthcare provider were experiencing difficulties connecting to the network. The connectivity problems were isolated to a single AP, and to only users that required DHCP functionality. The problem appeared to be an AP issue.
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Problems are not always as they appear. Using the distributed power of the OmniPeek Distributed Analysis Suite, the customer initiated multiple data captures. One capture, using OmniPeek Enterprise and its ability to capture and analyze wireless traffic, was initiated near the wireless clients experiencing the problem. A second capture was initiated from an OmniEngine software probe, installed on a dedicated Windows-based server that analyzed wired traffic from the wireless access point to the edge switch. An Omnipliance Network Recorder capturing and analyzing data 24/7 between the wired traffic from the edge switch to the network´s core switch was also utilized. A client was then rebooted to invoke the entire wireless authentication and connection process. During this process all three data captures were concurrently monitored using the OmniPeek Enterprise console.
The results indeed confirmed that things are not always as they seem. The wireless capture indicated no anomalies, as did the wired capture from the AP to the edge switch. However, OmniPeek analysis of the data on the third capture clearly illustrated that the edge switch was not forwarding DHCP packets to the core network where the DHCP server was running. Clients were therefore never receiving DHCP addresses, and could not connect to the network.
Business Benefits
Temporary network reconfiguration based on accurate, timely analysis minimized network down-time
Faulty hardware identified via software analysis, eliminated the need for costly and time-consuming hardware troubleshooting on a live network
The entire analyses, from initial action to resolution, took almost the same amount of time as it did to read this account. Using the OmniPeek Distributed Analysis Suite´s capabilities to execute, monitor and analyze simultaneous data captures on multiple topologies, at distributed network nodes, the customer was able to identify, confirm and resolve this issue 5 minutes after configuring the capture sessions. In total, the entire exercise lasted no more than 15 minutes.
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Planning and designing a WLAN
One of the advantages of 802.11 WLANs is their ability to dynamically adjust to changing conditions and to configure themselves to make the best use of available bandwidth. These capabilities work best, however, when the problems they address are kept within limits. To do this, you must understand the limits of the RF environment in the areas where wireless is to be deployed. This is best done by assessing the overall area over space and time to get a quantifiable baseline of your environment. OmniPeek provides the analytical and reporting capabilities you need to determine your "RF baseline" before deploying any 802.11 equipment, plan your overall 802.11 equipment layout and verify your 802.11 infrastructure design.
Managing a WLAN
Management of your WLAN begins with a simple "dashboard" view that you can use to quickly assess the overall health of your network. OmniPeek provides an accurate display of signal and noise on your WLAN by showing a continuously updated bar graph of the most recently reported signal strength, noise, or signal to noise comparison on every channel on which traffic is detected. OmniPeek also provides a detailed hierarchical view of all AP and users on your network, with built-in capabilities to quickly see problem areas, like rogue APs and unauthorized ad-hoc networks.
Securing the WLAN
Because they use radio transmissions, WLANs are inherently more difficult to secure than wired LANs. Simple encryption and authentication techniques such as WEP prevent outsiders from casually or inadvertently browsing your WLAN traffic, but they cannot stop a deliberate attack. WPA, and particularly WPA2 is quite secure today, and meets the need of the most demanding security officer.
Even the best passive defenses, however, must be paired with an active defense in order to really work. First, attempted breaches must be identified and stopped. Second, networks must be monitored to ensure that security policies are followed. OmniPeek can be used to monitor compliance with security policies, and to identify, intercept, log, and analyze unauthorized attempts to access the network. It can automatically respond to security threats in a variety of ways, making it ideal both for monitoring and for more focused analysis.
In an all-wireless environment, the only way to troubleshoot is to capture the packets off the air. In smaller satellite offices in particular, this all-wireless solution is increasingly common. It offers quick setup and can cover areas that would be awkward to serve with wiring, such as non-contiguous office spaces on the same floor. The only wired part of such networks may be the connection from the DSL modem, through the router to the access point.
Multi-Channel Analysis
Mobility drives unique requirements for network analysis. Access points are stationary - users are not. They roam from one AP to another, with the expectation that services will continue seamlessly. But what happens when they don´t? You can no longer analyze data from a single AP, or even from a single channel, since your network uses multiple, non-overlapping channels to avoid AP to AP (co-channel) interference.
WildPackets offers the only solution on the market today that can address these complexities - multiple APs, multiple channels and sophisticated analysis modules to quickly highlight problem areas, all in real-time.
Wireless clients move from AP to AP, and therefore from channel to channel, with no indication to the user. This can even happen when the user is stationary - a busy AP knocks the user off so the wireless client associates with another AP on another channel. To view these events, your network analysis solution must be able to capture all the data on all channels of interest, simultaneously.
Traditional solutions scan from channel to channel, leaving large gaps in the data. For example, you use the three non-overlapping channels in the b/g range, channels 1, 6 and 11. A typical scanning solution will miss two-thirds of the data as it scans from channel to channel. How can you use such a solution in the "real world" setting of mobile users? With the OmniPeek Distributed Analysis Suite, network traffic is captured from multiple channels simultaneously, and data is analyzed in aggregate.
This is the real world - all of the data from all of the channels captured and analyzed in real-time, and using simple, inexpensive wireless USB adapters that are available at any electronics outlet!
Roaming Analysis
Roaming is one of the primary reasons why users experience problems on wireless networks. Excessive roaming times lead to poor quality for VoFi, and can lead to dropped calls or dropped data connections. Analysis of roaming requires real-time aggregation of data from multiple channels and multiple APs with integrated analysis that leads to a simple report - who is roaming, how long is each event taking and what does the average look like for each AP. The end result is simple, yet the process is complex. The OmniPeek Distributed Analysis Suite automates the entire task, providing a simple report with all the data you need.
To get started, simply install OmniPeek Professional or OmniPeek Enterprise and connect the appropriate wireless network adapters that best suit your network configuration and analysis needs (
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WildPackets and the WLAN Industry
WildPackets has partnered with leading technology providers in the WLAN marketplace, including Aruba, Cisco, Xirrus, Meru, and others. To learn more about our WLAN partners, please visit our Alliances page.
Agilent Technologies & Wi-Fi Alliance (WFA)
Interoperability Certification Labs (ICL)
The Wi-Fi Alliance is an industry consortium focused on increasing the global adoption of Wi-Fi (IEEE 802.11) solutions. The WFA recognized that a key enabler of faster adoption for a new technology is the interoperability of equipment from different manufacturers. Agilent Technologies, under contract from the WFA, was tasked to create and operate several Interoperability Certification Labs around the world. To meet its objective, the ICL established a standard test bed that would be used in all labs. WildPackets´ AiroPeek product was an integral part of this test bed, and has been instrumental to the certification of all products that bear the Wi-Fi Alliance logo.
10 Gigabit Networks
WildPackets provides the powerful
, 10 Gigabit network analysis solution network engineers need in order to keep their 10 Gigabit networks performing optimally.
Enterprises are deploying 10 Gigabit networks as backbones or as segments supporting bandwidth-intensive applications such as video production. 10 Gigabit technology increases bandwidth, allows greater data throughput, and provides higher performance than other existing network topologies. However, due to its fast, high-bandwidth nature, when problems occur, the high data rate can make them difficult to troubleshoot. As a result, performance problems and outages can take longer than usual to resolve, and lots of traffic-as well as the business operations that depend on that traffic-can be adversely affected.
WildPackets 10 Gigabit Solution includes:
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Capturing Every Packet
WildPackets OmniAdapter 10G is designed to pass network traffic directly to disk, eliminating the need for buffer-handling. OmniAdapter 10G ensures that no packets are lost between the network and storage, and that network engineers have all the data they need for fast, accurate analysis.
Capturing packets at full line rate, the OmniAdapter 10G merges both streams of the
traffic using synchronized timestamps. The OmniAdapter 10G can also slice and filter packets at full-line rate speeds in order to focus the traffic stream and optimize analysis. The OmniAdapter 10G works in full- or half-duplex environments, fiber, in-line, or via a switch´s port mirror. WildPackets OmniEngine has the ability to do multiple in-line or port mirrors analysis on both sides of a conversation.
OmniAdapter 10G is a high performance,
10 Gigabit Network Analyzer Card with 2x10 Gbit/s optical interfaces that has been optimized for monitoring and troubleshooting traffic on 10 Gigabit Ethernet network. It is based on the industry standard
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OmniEngine - Distributed 24/7 Network Analyzer and Monitor
Designed for Real-time and post-capture Analysis of 10 Gigabit Traffic
Building on WildPackets´ award-winning network analysis technology, OmniEngine performs real-time network analysis on traffic from one or more network interfaces, including Ethernet, 802.11 a/b/g/n wireless, Gigabit, 10 Gigabit, and WAN. OmniEngine captures and analyzes data in real-time, and records data for post-capture analysis. With WildPackets OmniEngines, network engineers can rapidly troubleshoot faults - even faults occurring at remote locations - without leaving their office.
OmniEngine has been fine-tuned to facilitate processing of 10 Gigabit traffic loads while performing real-time troubleshooting. Adjustable settings in the Performance View allow the user to select optimized performance for the type of analysis required, whether performing real-time analysis, monitoring statistics, or saving all packets to disk for post-capture forensic analysis.
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Industry Specific Solutions
WildPackets solutions help organizations of all sizes make the most of their networks and network services.
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Education Solutions
For over 17 years, WildPackets has sold an increasingly sophisticated but fairly-priced family of packet and expert network analyzers, network monitoring tools, IP test tools, and various networking utilities to hundreds of academic institutions.
Academic institutions have a long history of applying the latest technological innovation to their networking infrastructures. Seeking to meet the needs of tech savvy and ever more demanding students, educational institutions have been at the cutting edge of networking. Many of the communications and processes that schools depend on now take place online, including administration workflows, class registration forms, course materials, campus news, and email. And, by 2013, ABI Research predicts 99% of North American universities will offer WiFi.
Keeping campus networks highly available and performing optimally is an important task for campus IT departments. Network outages can disrupt classes, bog down administration procedures, and interrupt daily communications for hundreds or even thousands of people.
Adding to their challenge, is the very nature of educational institutions:
Hodge podge of both current-generation and legacy hardware
Little control over the types and numbers of devices that connect to the network, with many devices WiFi-enabled
Staff with a wide range of experience, from part-time students working in computer labs to experienced network engineers
Tech-savvy students with expectations of fast, reliable campus wide network access and bandwidth-intensive needs
With distributed network performance monitoring and analysis solutions from WildPackets, network managers can keep their campus networks highly available and performing optimally. With simple, intuitive troubleshooting and analysis tools even junior members of the IT staff can keep the network running smoothly and securely. Unlike some solutions, WildPackets analyzers deliver wired and wireless traffic information in one simple user interface. At a glance, IT staff can capture all wired wireless traffic in real-time across multiple Access Points (APs) and multiple channels.
WildPackets solutions deliver:
Real-time expert analysis for rapid troubleshooting
Remote segment analysis, enabling troubleshooting and optimizing network segments on other floors and in remote buildings
Support for both wired and wireless technologies
WildPackets network analyzers provide education institutions with the graphical, real-time diagnostics they need to find and fix network problems quickly. For the network administrator troubleshooting a network outage moments before a class begins or analyzing traffic flows to identify which student's laptop has introduced a virus, WildPackets analyzers provide indispensable help.
WildPackets analyzers offer an additional benefit for schools. WildPackets' easy-to-use, graphical analysis tools are perfect for teaching students how to analyze and understand network communications in the classroom. Educational institutions now have the opportunity to deploy distributed network analysis solutions across campuses. Site licenses of OmniPeek Connect and OmniEngine Enterprise or single licenses of OmniPeek Professional are available at discounted prices to ensure complete coverage of campus networks. With the purchase of a WildPackets OmniPeek Education Site License, participating institutions enjoy unlimited use* of WildPackets products at a savings of thousand of dollars.
* Colleges and universities can purchase a site license for an entire campus. K-12 institutions can purchase either a campus-wide or a district-wide license.
Government Solutions
WildPackets provides government agencies and departments with powerful, affordable solutions for real-time visibility as well as troubleshooting and optimizing for every part of the network - simultaneously from a single interface - including Gigabit, 10GbE, Ethernet, 802.11 wireless, VoIP, and WAN links to remote offices.
Comprehensive Threat Analysis
Network security is crucial in today's digital age, especially to government agencies and departments - whether federal, state, or local. Information leakage not only results in monetary losses but can also be a serious threat to national security. The right network forensic solution in place enables IT managers and network engineers to discover and eliminate possible threats in the network and provide lawful interception capabilities when needed.
With solutions from WildPackets, IT personnel can:
Capture (and record): Omnipliance Network Recorders and OmniAdapter analysis cards continuously capture and store multiple gigabytes of data at high throughput (e.g. 10Gbit) without dropping or missing any packets on the network
Discover: OmniPeek network analyzers and consoles can be started, stopped by network or data center engineers to analyze traffic captures on remote OmniEngine software probes
Analyze: With OmniPeek network analyzers and consoles network engineers can run searches to mine captured data for specific information or set alerts to notify them of developing threats
Intermittent Issues
Capture and analyze intermittent network problems
Troubleshoot problems that occurred hours or days ago
Find the patterns that ad hoc, reactive troubleshooting will miss
Security Cyber Attack Analysis
Detect and characterize attacks - whether they´ve just begun or occurred days ago
Apply filters to isolate malicious behavior and mitigate an attack that slipped past network defense
Equip your network IT team with a powerful incident response tool
Transaction Analysis
Create the ultimate audit trail for transactions - not just server activity but the business transactions enacted by clients and servers
Troubleshoot the transaction problems that server logs miss
Healthcare Solutions
With WildPackets healthcare solutions, network managers know for certain that their network is secure and performing optimally. And healthcare professionals can focus on providing better care instead of wondering if they´re going to lose connectivity as they travel throughout the premises.
To deliver the best patient care, healthcare organizations rely on highly accessible networks - networks that have both wired and wireless segments. And, in healthcare facilities, the network - with the proliferation of wireless devices, such as laptops, Computers on Wheels (COWs), dual-mode phones, patient IDs, nurse call systems, and more - is under increased strain.
Complicating a network manager's job is the expectation of seamless access to services - regardless of device or location - by patients, doctors, and nurses as they move throughout the facilities. Unfortunately users are mobile, while access points (APs) are stationary. All of which increases service disruptions and distracts healthcare professionals from their primary mission - treating the sick - and complicates your ability to troubleshoot the disruptions quickly as data is not on a single AP or single channel.
Healthcare Organizations Need Secure, Highly Accessible Networks
As technology continues to evolve rapidly and new wireless devices and applications arrive, networking professionals will be racing to keep up with system interoperability concerns; throughput, reliability, and security issues; as well as HIPAA-compliant security.
WildPackets wireless performance monitoring and analysis solutions give network managers the troubleshooting and analysis tools they need to keep networks running smoothly and securely. Unlike most solutions which can miss up to 90% of wireless traffic, WildPackets analyzers capture all wireless traffic in real-time across multiple Access Points (APs) and multiple channels.
WildPackets solutions deliver:
Real-time expert analysis for rapid troubleshooting
Remote segment analysis, enabling troubleshooting and optimizing network segments on other floors and in remote buildings
Support for both wired and wireless technologies
Analysis and logging that aids network security and forensics
Finance Solutions
WildPackets offers financial industry solutions for
engineers, data center engineers, and security and compliance officers.
Fast, accurate data is essential for financial services organizations. Networks must be reliable and secure. From online trading to call centers relying on VoIP services, the daily work of financial institutions runs on network that must be optimized, secure, and compliant.
WildPackets solutions deliver:
Real-time expert analysis for rapid troubleshooting
Remote segment analysis, enabling troubleshooting and optimizing network segments on other floors and in remote buildings
Ongoing compliance with established network policies to mitigate critically disruptive VoIP problems
Analysis and logging that aids network security and forensics
Application Performance
Measure user satisfaction and drill down to specific network traffic used to calculate that score and diagnose and correct any performance bottlenecks
Discover the root cause of performance problems with detail flow analysis
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Create the ultimate audit trail for business transactions - not just server activity but the business transactions enacted by clients and servers
Troubleshoot the transaction problems that server logs miss
Ensure and monitor compliance with technology audit laws such as the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) Act, and others
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Label: Celtic Otter Music
Bio: Brian Cullen is an Irish singer-songwriter based in Japan since 1991. In addition to his own compositions, he also plays traditional Irish music. Apart from playing solo, he has also played with various Irish-influenced bands including The Rising Pints and The Magical Otters, and contemporary roc... See Full BioMore Info
May 10
Adam will be helping Brian Cullen hold it down again tonight! Come on by and enjoy the fun! (Facebook Event Info) Join Brian and his special guests for a night of great music, great friends, and a great atmosphere!! ¥500 music charge for the band. See you then!
Apr 12
Yes, it's that time again everyone! Time to come down and enjoy the beautiful Irish sounds of Brian Cullen and Friends. Open mic is theme of the night again, so we look forward to seeing all the great talent get up and give Brian a hand making it another enjoyable night with good people, good food and drink at C.O.A. (Cover charge upstairs ¥500 per person). 良いお知らせです。今週またBrian Cullen & Friendsがやって参ります!! 美味しいお酒と料理を楽しみながら、二階にてアイリッシュバンドの生演奏等で盛り上がりましょう! (二階の席料はお一人500円)
Dec 7
We are hoping to make this a regular monthly event at Coat of Arms. I'll start and finish the evening, and in the middle we will have lots of guests. If you would like to do a few songs this time or in another month, please get in touch with Brian Cullen.
Nov 15
I'll be back playing lots of old Irish songs and tunes at Peat. The Guinness is lovely, and they have a fine plate of fish and chips. It's just a couple of minutes walk from Nagoya station. Come early if you want to be sure of getting a table.
Jun 9
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The typical joropo song begins with a fast homophonic block of melody and rhythm, stringed instruments led by folk-harp and bandola guitar, and percussion — BAM! BAM! BAM! BAM! BAM! BAM! BAM! BAM! BAM! And then a piercing nasal vocal cry: "Aaaay!"
It's the call of the cattleman, herding his charges. Joropo is music born of the plains that extend from Colombia into Venezuela. Though the area has since the late 1900s seen the advance of the oil industry, it has a longer tradition as ranchland. And that's where joropo, and other plains music ("música llanera"), comes from. Like a lot of regional folk music — from Cajun and Creole in southwest Louisiana to Tex-Mex conjunto — joropo is high-energy and highly emotional, declamatory, full of boasts and laments, and created to be performed with dancers.


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Indianapolis Downtown Inc. released a list of downtown events for Saturday that include a masquerade ball, dinner deals and live performances.
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"Instead of the New Year, we say Happy Noon Year," said Jaclyn Falkenstein with the museum. "It's a really great way to spend time with family earlier in the day if you want your kids to be sleeping or if you're going out without the kids later in the day."
It has been such a big hit, Falkenstein said the museum will do it twice more this year at 1 p.m. and 2 p.m.
Adults wanting to let loose will be able to at several different downtown parties. The Hyatt Regency is throwing a Rock 'n Roll ball which includes six musical acts. When the clock strikes 12, guests will look up to see 12,000 balloons drop. The whole experience is priced at $39 per person.
Folks who like tradition can keep it alive at the Rathskeller's annual New Year's Eve party. For $50, customers can watch two live bands, get free party favors and chow down on tradition German grub.
"We're gonna have some pretzels. We're gonna have some German wieners out there," said general manager Ron Vaught.
The complete list of downtown events follows:
Families can celebrate together
Five, four, three, two, one…Happy Noon Year! A fun, family-friendly option is The Children's Museum of Indianapolis' Countdown to Noon party from 10 a.m. – 1 p.m. Children and families participate in the excitement of a countdown to the new year in anticipation of the evening's countdown. The event is free with museum admission. Call 334.3322 or visit www.childrensmuseum.org/calendar/index.htm
End the year with a bang at the Indiana State Museum's Family New Year's Eve Celebration from 6 – 9 p.m. Face painting, stilt walkers, dancing and more return as the exciting balloon drop takes place at 8 p.m. $6 members; $11 non-members. Call 232.1637 or visit www.indianamuseum.org/visit/events/eventview.asp?eventid=1073
Embrace winter with Indiana's hockey team, Indiana Ice, as they face off against Youngstown Phantoms at Bankers Life Fieldhouse (6:04 p.m.). Visit www.indianaice.com for more information.
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Dance Kaleidoscope and the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra come together for a magical New Year's Eve in Vienna that promises to be an elegant celebration. Opt for a sumptuous pre-concert dinner, win fabulous prize packages in our "Name that Tune" competition and stay for the post-concert countdown featuring more live music, dancing, a cash bar and a complimentary champagne toast. Call 639.4300 or visit www.indianapolissymphony.org for tickets.
Join Carlton Lewis III and his band, TLC, as they resurrect the sounds of the late great Sam Cooke at the Madame Walker Theatre Center for New Year's Eve Rhythm & Soul Revue! Tickets $25 - $50. Call 236.2099 or visit www.walkertheatre.com.
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New 'To Catch an Error' contest starts today!
The Sacramento Press' "To Catch an Error" contest has ended for the month of November. We are excited to announce our winner, Marion Millin !
Millin received a total of 54 points for catching minor spelling and grammar errors in stories by community contributors and one of our staff reporters.
Thanks to everyone who entered!
If you missed last month's contest, it's time to start hunting again. Beginning today, we will wipe the slate clean and start our December contest. December's winner will receive a complimentary lunch for two at Zocalo.
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(Reuters) - Asian golfers have made a real impact on the world game in recent years but some of the region's top players are trembling about this week's WGC-HSBC Champions event in Shenzen, China.
Some, including the Asian Tour's Order of Merit leader, are complaining that the 7,301-yard Olazabal course at Mission Hills is too long for them.
"Some holes are too long," Thailand's Thaworn Wiratchant said in a statement. "The greens are firm. When I hit my irons, the ball won't stop. It will be challenging for me.
"I don't think about just wanting to beat Phil Mickelson or Bubba Watson," added Thaworn, who has won three tournaments this year and finished in the top 20 in Malaysia last week.
"I want to put up some good scores. I was happy with my form last week so hopefully it will continue. There is no pressure on me."
With seven of the world's top 10 players competing this week, the $7 million tournament co-sanctioned by the European Tour will be tough enough but Thaworn was not alone in griping about the length of the course.
Countryman Prom Meesawat, who tips the scales at over 100 kilograms and can give the ball a hefty whack, also had concerns about distance.
"I need to improve my driving distance," said the player dubbed 'Big Dolphin'. "I figure I need another 20 yards more to compete."
Despite his nickname, Prom admitted his chances of making much of a splash in China were slim.
"My irons are good enough but there is still a lot of work to do," said the 28-year-old. "I don't expect to play good and win.
"But if my form is good it will be nice for me and Asian golf. We want to show we can win like Thongchai (Jaidee) and Jeev (Milkha Singh) who won on European soil this year."
One of the shortest hitters on the Asian Tour, Bangladeshi Mohammad Siddikur, all but wrote off his hopes of keeping up with the long bombers.
"It's a great golf course but for me it's a bit long," said the 27-year-old, the first man from his country to win on the Asian Tour.
"It'll be a good experience for me. You've got to have distance off the tees to have a chance to make a score. It'll be a good challenge."
Siddikur is hoping his improved short game can help compensate for his lack of distance off the tee.
"The short game has to be good on this course," he added. "It's very undulating. My short game is now better and I think it will be okay."
(Reporting by Alastair Himmer in Tokyo; Editing by Mark Meadows)


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You know how trendy it is to wear jeans that look old and beat up, right? Most denim companies turn to sandblasting to get the job done, but a Japanese charity has a new idea: let lions, tigers, and bears (oh my!) do it. We'll show you how, with gifs. »


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Does anyone know a good, active forum where drafting itself is the main topic? Most seem to be for discussion of drafting SOFTWARE (like these forums).
Have you looked at the Drafting Techniques forum? Its under the Autocad section of the forums approximately the 17th item down. Below is a direct link
Thanks, but that's not what I mean. That's still a software forum, as in "I need to draw a so-and-so, what's the best way to do that in AutoCAD." I'm looking for, "Here's an odd shape, what's the best way to dimension it?"
Same thing, you're just splitting hairs
There is no "generic" drafting-school forum out there AFAIK, it's best to post and ask peers that use the software you are using, to avoid the "well, my software can do this...." issues you wil eventually hit like a brick wall.
OR try signing up to a local drafting school class if one is offered in your area at a community college: drafting fundamentals are best taught with a lot of practice and instant supervision.
>> Same thing, you're just splitting hairs
Alright, thanks. I was concerned non-AutoCAD-specific questions might not be welcome there, but I'll take your word for it
Start with some of our most frequented solutions or visit the Installation and Licensing Forum to get help installing your software.


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Two people were injured, one critically, in a Friday afternoon chain reaction crash in northwest suburban Crystal Lake.
Four vehicles were traveling north on Illinois Route 31 when three came to a stop because of traffic congestion about 2:55 p.m. near Illinois Route 175, according to a release from Crystal Lake police.
A fourth vehicle struck the vehicle in front of it, which "careened" into a third vehicle, which then struck a fourth vehicle, police said.
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Zimmerman reinvents Chinese legend at Berkeley Rep
The worldwide premiere of The White Snake, Mary Zimmerman's atmospheric retelling of an ancient Chinese legend, is a visual and artistic wonderland. Zimmerman conceived, wrote and directed The White Snake in the spirit of her previous Berkeley Rep productions, which include Metamorphoses and The Arabian Nights. Zimmerman and the talented cast and crew make the ancient story come alive by using their imagination, creative vision, beautiful aesthetic and inventive stage techniques.
The tale of the white snake, originally published in 981 CE, has transmogrified over time. It began as a cautionary fable in which a man has a brief affair with a woman dressed in white. The man soon becomes ill and dies. It later seems that there never was a woman dressed in white, only a white snake. Moral: beware the evil snake disguised as a beautiful woman. Much later, the fable developed into a love story in which a white snake risks all for love. … Continue reading »
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