The document summarizes a webinar on network analysis tips and tricks presented by WildPackets. The webinar covered customizing the OmniPeek network analysis tool, setting baseline event thresholds, and using the visual expert tools. It provided an overview of WildPackets as a company focusing on network monitoring and optimization products. The product line includes portable and distributed network recorders and analyzers with various performance levels and storage capacities.

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Network Analysis
Tips and Tricks

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Administration
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• Slides and recording will be available
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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

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Tips and Tricks
Expert Dashboard, Baseline Event
Thresholds, Visual Expert

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Tips and Tricks
Compass
Peer Map
Nodes

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Tips and Tricks
How to Approach WLAN Analysis

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WildPackets Corporate Overview
Optimizing Network and Application Performance

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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”

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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

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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

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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

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A History of Innovation
2003
Distributed
real-time
troubleshooting
2001
First 802.11
wireless analyzer
2005
Combined distributed
network and VoIP
network analysis
2008
Enterprise-wide
Monitoring and Reporting
2009
Innovative dashboard
with drill-down for VoIP
and video
2012
First 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
2010
First 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
2013
First to achieve
25Gbps
sustained
capture-to-disk
2014

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Product Line Overview

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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

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WildPackets Network Analysis Recorder Appliances
Price/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

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WildPackets Network Analysis Recorder Appliances
Price/Performance Solutions for Every Application
Portable OmniplianceWiFi
Ruggedized
Troubleshooting
Access 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

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Collaboration or Independent Control
network network network network network
Building 1 Building 2 Building 3
(San Francisco) (Saint Louis) (Boston)

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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

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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

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Thank You!
WildPackets, Inc.
1340 Treat Boulevard, Suite 500
Walnut Creek, CA 94597
(925) 937-3200