U.S. Navy Research Centers

Communications has always been a key strategic necessity in the military, and with the revolution in computers and networking over the past several decades, reliable communications has come to mean fast and reliable networks. In today's Navy, computer networks carry the tactical and non-tactical information that constitutes its vital command, control, communications and surveillance systems.

The Navy's network engineers face widely varying challenges. In building temporary developmental or tactical networks, engineers must deal with a wide variation in network sizes, network host counts, and geographies that varied from a small base to dozens of miles of territory linked via leased lines or line-of-sight microwave transmitters. To keep information systems running continuously, and to develop new technology to address its future needs, the Navy's warfare systems centers needed a sophisticated packet analysis tool so they could immediately address and resolve any network issue.

After evaluating a number of competitive products, the Navy chose EtherPeek™, WildPackets' award-winning protocol analyzer, and NetSense™, WildPackets' post-capture expert trace file analysis tool. EtherPeek's intuitive graphical interface has been essential in reducing the time to identify and resolve network issues, and to simplify the tasks involved in discovering network patterns and anomalies.

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