Network Analysis Tips & Tricks with Omnipeek

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Tips and Tricks

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Agenda

• Introduction

• Tips and Tricks‒ Customizing Your OmniPeek Screen

‒ Expert Dashboards• Baseline Events

• Flow Visual Expert

• Application Visual Expert

• WildPackets Corporate Overview

• WildPackets Product Line Overview

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Tips and Tricks

Customizing Your OmniPeek

Screen


Tips and Tricks

Expert Dashboard, Baseline Event

Thresholds, Visual Expert


Tips and Tricks

Compass

Peer Map

Nodes


Tips and Tricks

How to Approach WLAN Analysis


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WildPackets Corporate Overview

Optimizing Network and Application Performance


Corporate Background

• Experts in network monitoring, analysis, and troubleshooting

‒ Founded: 1990 / Headquarters: Walnut Creek, CA

‒ Offices throughout the US, EMEA, and APAC

• Customers spanning leading edge organizations

‒ Mid-market and enterprise lines of business

‒ Financial, manufacturing, ISPs, major federal agencies,

state and local governments, universities

‒ Over 7,000 customers / 60+ countries / 80% of Fortune 1,000

• Award-winning solutions that improve network performance

‒ Internet Telephony, Network Magazine, Network Computing awards

‒ United States Patent 5,787,253 issued July 28, 1998• “Apparatus and Method of Analyzing Internet Activity”


Why Our Customers Need Us

• VoIP, video, cloud, virtualization, and key business

applications are saturating critical network services

• Evolving network technologies create discontinuities‒ 1 Gig 10 Gig 40 Gig 100 Gig networks

‒ Wireless, BYOD initiatives

• Users and business can not tolerate network

problems for mission critical services

Increasing demand for better real-time network visibility,

network analytics, network forensics, and DPI


How We Create Value

We provide innovative, industry-leading, real-time

network performance management solutions

‒ Easy-to-use, easy-to-learn user interface

‒ Uniquely extensible solutions

‒ Wireless network leadership

‒ Detailed analytics related to network applications

‒ Fastest network traffic capture appliance in its class

‒ Technical superiority at competitive price point

WildPackets has continually advanced its solution to meet the needs of its

customers


ROOT-CAUSE ANALYSIS

OmniPeek network analyzer performs deep packet inspection

and can reconstruct all network activity, including e-mail and

IM, as well as analyze VoIP and video traffic quality.

UNDERSTAND END-USER PERFORMANCE

TimeLine and Omnipliance network recorders monitor

and analyze performance across critical network

segments, virtual environments, and remote sites.

NETWORK HEALTH

WatchPoint can manage and report on key

device performance and availability across

the entire network, from anywhere on the network.

GLOBAL

DISTRIBUTED

DPI

Unprecedented Network Visibility


A History of Innovation

2003Distributed

real-time

troubleshooting

2001First 802.11

wireless analyzer

2005Combined distributed

network and VoIP

network analysis

2008Enterprise-wide

Monitoring and Reporting

2009Innovative dashboard

with drill-down for VoIP

and video

2012First wireless network

analyzer to support

801.11ac, k, r, u, v, w

2011• Most complete

network KPIs with

zero packet loss

• First wireless

network analyzer to

support 802.11n

3-stream wireless

2010First to achieve 11Gbps

sustained capture-to-disk•First wireless

network analyzer to

capture 3-stream

801.11ac traffic

•First multi-gigabit

appliance for WLAN

analysis

2013First to achieve

25Gbps

sustained

capture-to-disk

2014


Product Line Overview


OmniPeek

Portable Network Analyzer

• 10/100/1000 Ethernet, Wireless, VoIP & Video

• VoIP Analysis & Call Playback

• Seamless transition from portable to distributed

Omnipliance/OmniEngine

Distributed Monitoring, Analysis, Forensics

• Packet capture & real-time analysis

• 24 * 7, Stream-to-Disk with Data Mining

• Software only & Turnkey appliances

Product Line Overview


WildPackets Network Analysis Recorder AppliancesPrice/Performance Solutions for Every Application

Omnipliance CX Omnipliance MX Omnipliance TL

Less Demanding

Networks

Remote Offices

Datacenter Workhorse

Easily Expandable

Enterprise, Highly-Utilized

Networks

1U rack mountable chassis 3U rack mountable chassis 3U rack mountable chassis

16GB RAM 32GB RAM 64GB RAM

2 PCI-E Slots 4 PCI-E Slots 4 PCI-E Slots

2 Built-in Ethernet Ports 2 Built-in Ethernet Ports 2 Built-in Ethernet Ports

4/8/16TB Storage 16/32TB Storage 32/48/64/96TB Storage

Optional OmniStorage: 32/48/64TB

Up to 128TB total Storage

OmniAdapter 1G/10G MX OmniAdapter 1G/10G MX OmniAdapter 1G/10G/40G

4 Gbps CTD 8 Gbps CTD 16 Gbps CTD with OmniStorage

CTD = Capture To Disk

Wired and Wireless NW Workshop 2015


WildPackets Network Analysis Recorder AppliancesPrice/Performance Solutions for Every Application

Portable OmniplianceWiFi

Ruggedized

TroubleshootingAccess Point to Analyzer

(802.11ac ready)

Aluminum chassis / 17” LCD 1U rack mountable chassis

24GB RAM 16GB RAM

2 PCI-E Slots 2 PCI-E Slots

2 Built-in Ethernet Ports 2 Built-in Ethernet Ports

6TB Storage 8TB Storage

OmniAdapter 1G and 10G Incld’s 1 OmniAdapter 4-port

1G/ MX

6.5Gbps CTD 3.2Gbps CTD

CTD = Capture To Disk



Collaboration or Independent Control


network network network network network

Building 1 Building 2 Building 3

(San Francisco) (Saint Louis) (Boston)


Comprehensive Support and Services

Standard Support

Maintenance and upgrades

Telephone and email contacts

Knowledgebase

MyPeek Portal

Premier Support

24 x 7 x 365

Dedicated escalation manager

2 customer contacts per site

Plug-in reconfiguration assistance

WildPackets Training Academy

Public, web-based, and on-site classes

Complete curriculum: technology and product focused

Practical applications and labs covering network analysis,

wireless, VoIP monitoring and advanced troubleshooting

Consulting and Custom Development Services

Deployment, configuration, and assessment engagement

Systems integration and testing

Application integration, driver, decode, interface development


WildPackets Key Differentiators

• Visual Expert intelligence with intuitive drill-down

‒ Let computer do the hard work, and return results, real-time

‒ Packet /payload visualization is faster than packet-per-packet diagnostics

‒ Experts and analytics can be memorized and automated

• Automated capture analytics

‒ Filters, triggers, scripting, and advanced alarming system combine to provide

automated network problem detection 24x7

• Multiple issue network forensics

‒ Can be tracked by one or more people simultaneously

‒ Real-time or post capture

• User-extensible platform

‒ Plug-in architecture and SDK


Thank You!

WildPackets, Inc.

1340 Treat Boulevard, Suite 500

Walnut Creek, CA 94597

(925) 937-3200

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