Cyber Security – IDS/IPS Is Not Enough

Network breaches are on the rise. You can find statistics and specific accounts of breaches all over the Web. And those are just the ones companies are willing to talk about.

You have an IDS/IPS in place so you’re protected, right? Not necessarily, since most breaches today are unique, and often employ prolonged, targeted attacks, making them hard to predict and counteract with existing IDS/IPS solutions. Worse, sometimes attacks begin, or are at least facilitated, from within the firewall, whether maliciously or simply due to negligence and inappropriate corporate network usage.

The current environment of profit-driven network attacks requires that you supplement existing IDS/IPS solutions with technology that constantly monitors and records all network traffic, and provides the ability to perform Network Forensics. This way if an attack occurs, and the odds are not in your favor, you can not only characterize the breach, but also assess the damage, ensure no further compromise, and comply with corporate and legal requirements for reporting. Additionally, by employing Network Forensics proactively, you can spot dangerous behavior on your network as it happens, swinging the odds of avoiding an attack back in your favor.

In this web seminar, we will cover:

• Current trends in cyber attacks, including APTs (Advanced Persistent Threats)
• Common characteristics of recent cyber attacks
• Limitations of IDS/IPS solutions
• Using Network Forensics to supplement your defenses

What you will learn:

• Why IDS/IPS solutions fall short
• How to implement a Network Forensics solution
• How to use Network Forensics for both proactive and post-incident security analysis

24/7 Distributed Network Monitoring for Real-Time and Post-Capture Analysis

When business runs on the network—as it does now in almost every industry—network downtime and performance degradation become mission-critical problems, affecting productivity, revenue, and relationships with customers and partners. Combine this with the widely distributed workforce and the accompanying widely distributed network infrastructure of most modern companies, and the challenges of real-time network management and troubleshooting seem overwhelming. However, by building distributed, intelligent network analysis into your infrastructure, vital information for management and troubleshooting is always at your fingertips.

In this webcast, Jay Botelho, Director of Product Management presents an overview of WildPackets’ OmniPeek Distributed Analysis Solution, with a specific focus on managing, maintaining, and troubleshooting a widely distributed network.

Topics include:

• Overview of distributed analysis topologies
• Determining and optimizing data collection points
• Managing distributed 10 Gig segments
• Comparison of real-time vs. post-capture analysis
• Managing distributed network management data
• Enabling analytical collaboration

802.11n – Are You Seeing It All?

802.11n has brought wireless networking to a whole new level, making wireless network speeds nearly comparable with many wired networks. And what we’ve seen so far is really just the tip of the iceberg. Over the past few years APs and wireless control systems for enterprise networks have seen significant development around 802.11n, but wireless network adapters that laptops use to connect to these upgraded networks still have a way to go. Most 11n wireless adapters available today only take advantage of portion of the overall gains possible with 11n.

As the client side of 802.11n begins another round of upgrades, mainly through support of additional transmit and receive paths (3x3 clients, for example), new demands will be put both on these networks and the systems used to monitor and troubleshoot them. As more 3x3 wireless clients become available, network monitoring and analysis solutions relying on 2x2 wireless adapters for data collection may miss critical wireless traffic. What do you need to do to make sure you see it all?

In this web seminar, we will cover:

• An overview of key 802.11n performance enhancement technologies
• Current capabilities of typical 802.11n hardware
• A detailed review of the meaning of "mxn"

What you will learn:

1. Tips and techniques for network monitoring and analysis in 802.11n and mixed environments
2. How data transmission and reception differ for various "mxn" devices
3. How network monitoring and analysis requirements differ for mixed "mxn" environments

802.11n – Increased Speed, Increased Complexity

Making the move to 802.11n? Though the rewards are significant, they come with a cost. The increased complexity of 802.11n can be a bit maddening, and it will definitely impact the way you design, monitor, and maintain your WLAN. MIMO? Channel bonding? Aggregation? If these terms aren’t currently part of your WLAN vocabulary, they certainly will be by the time you make the move. And even though the specification has been ratified for some time now, 802.11n hardware continues to evolve.

Join us as we explore the number of MIMO streams, channel bonding, guard interval lengths, and other characteristics that define your WLAN capabilities. We’ll also characterize the current state of commercially available 802.11n hardware, arming you with the information you need to determine if, when, and how you want to make the move.

In this web seminar, we will cover:

• Key technologies that are new to 802.11n
• The relative importance of each technology in contributing to increased performance
• The current "state of the art" of commercially available 11n equipment

What you will learn:

• What new 11n technologies are most important to you
• When to use the various 11n technologies
• How to monitor and analyze WLANs – both mixed-mode and Greenfield 11n

802.11n: Platform vs. Point Solution

Technological advances typically highlight new technological challenges, and this quiet revolution is no exception. Networks, devices, and applications all need to be monitored and managed. Mobility introduces previously unconsidered consequences. The network topology constantly changes as users access and exit the network. New devices with new capabilities crop up almost every day. This web seminar will analyze this wireless metamorphous with a focus on addressing these key technological challenges.

In this web seminar, we will cover:

• Wireless trends
• The Wi-Fi lifecycle
• 802.11n as a driving force
• Management layers for complex wireless networks

What you will learn:

1. The importance of careful Wi-Fi design and planning
2. How to use 802.11n to your advantage
3. How to dissect and address your wireless management needs

A Confluence of Flows: Keeping Your Head Above Water

Flow-based data is widely available from almost any modern network device, and this data has become the basis of many very popular network monitoring solutions. Though readily available, traditional flow-based data can be incomplete, sometimes generating misleading results. Also, traditional flow-based analysis does not provide the detailed information required to troubleshoot network anomalies. What if the sampling algorithm is skewing your data or causing you to miss critical issues? What if the information required to troubleshoot a problem is in the payload and not the packet header? What if you need a single solution to monitor AND troubleshoot network problems?

This web seminar will introduce you to OmniFlow, and the possibility of a new "standard" in flow-based analysis.

In this web seminar, we will cover:

• Common techniques used in network monitoring
• Strengths and weaknesses of current network monitoring technologies
• The importance of packet-based troubleshooting in today’s networks
• The role of OmniFlow in providing end-to-end network monitoring and analysis

What you will learn:

• What network monitoring technologies best meet your requirements
• How to achieve greater visibility with OmniFlow
• Why analysis that includes packet payloads is critical
• How end-to-end network monitoring and analysis saves time and money

Application vs. Network — The Fight is On! - Application and Network Performance Monitoring

Delivering optimized application performance across you network shouldn't be a struggle. Your end user’s experience — and potentially how your business is perceived — depends on your ability to analyze and troubleshoot your environment. You need to find the true culprit behind slowdowns — the application or the network.

Attend this web seminar led by Jim Thor to learn:

• How to determine what is at fault and how to use TCP to prove it
• How to eliminate false positives by tuning expert events

Jim will provide a brief overview of WildPackets OmniPeek. He’ll then present a process for getting the proof you need to show it’s not the network, and walk you through two real-world examples. At the end of this web seminar you’ll be able to state confidently "it’s not the network!"

Best Practices for Analyzing 10G Ethernet Traffic

Your 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) network segments give you all the bandwidth you need to accommodate your ever-increasing network load and mix of network services. But with the 10x increase in bandwidth over your legacy 1GbE segments comes an equivalent increase in complexity in monitoring, managing and troubleshooting. What can you do to address this increased management complexity? Which techniques that worked well with 1GbE network segments should you avoid? What best practices should be applied?

Do you have the real-time visibility AND the historical network traffic you need to continue to take advantage of your investment in 10GbE? In this webcast we address these questions, and some of the finer points below.

• Match network analysis requirements with the appropriate network analysis techniques
• Ensure you're collecting and analyzing the data you expect
• Learn to work within the hardware limitations of network analysis probes
• Optimize data collection settings to meet the demands of your network and your analysis solution
• Use advanced settings like hardware filtering and time stamping to your advantage
• Determine the proper placement of network analysis probes to ensure network management and troubleshooting success

Best Practices in Enterprise-wide Network Performance Management

Watch this webcast as we host Jim Frey, Research Director at Enterprise Management Associates, for an in depth discussion of strategies and best practices for enterprise-wide network and application performance monitoring. Jim discusses the business value of network monitoring technologies as well as key strategies for proactive management with special emphasis on the impact that VoIP and Video are having in today’s converged networks. Jay Botelho, our director of Product Management then gives an update on the latest solutions from WildPackets that offer the enterprise-wide visibility that companies need to effectively manage their networks.

Beyond NetFlow... The Need for Centralized Network Monitoring

In this webcast, you will learn:

• All flow data is not created equal
• Traditional flow-based network analysis solutions lack depth for true troubleshooting
• Analyzing headers AND payloads provides unrivaled network visibility
• WildPackets OmniFlow data and WatchPoint network monitoring solution provide a single solution for both network monitoring AND troubleshooting

Cloud Computing - the Demise of Network Analysis?

Cloud computing was one of the hottest topics in 2009, and all indications are that it will remain a very hot topic for 2010, and perhaps beyond. Cloud computing is a disruptive technology, and as such it has the potential to change the landscape for many traditional IT functions, perhaps initiating the demise of many. Is traditional network analysis one of these?

This web seminar examines the issues impacting traditional network analysis in the Cloud Computing era, and concludes that far from its demise, Cloud Computing is likely to increase the need for, and the demands on, network analysis. Specifically, this web seminar will validate this conclusion by addressing the following topics:

• Cloud Computing options
• Current trends in Cloud Computing
• You can't outsource oversight
• Managing infrastructure vs. managing service availability and application performance
• Renewed importance of network analysis metrics - my network or your cloud?

What you will learn:

• Applying network analysis in various Cloud Computing scenarios
• Which traditional network analysis metrics are pertinent in Cloud Computing
• Network analysis in blended environments

Cyber Security: Don't get victimized, arm yourself

This definition is in many ways far more revealing than the words that comprise it. It's brevity speaks volumes to the breadth and scope of this issue. It is broad. It is far-reaching. It is therefore hard to know where to look if you can't look everywhere at once.

Typical approaches to cyber security involve collecting diverse 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. The resulting hodge-podge of data is not easily recompiled into a coherent picture, often forcing analysts to guess about the breach. That's why we continue to see headlines about security attacks at brand-name websites like Facebook and Twitter.

In this webcast we will cover key characteristics of cyber security as well key elements of a cyber security solution. We then explore one solution that addresses the issues of diverse data, formats, and sources.

Specific topics include:

• Recent trends in cyber security
• Key questions that must be addressed
• Network forensics and data recording
• Establishing an attack fingerprint
• Preventing future occurrences

It's not a question of if, only when. Arm yourself with the knowledge you need before becoming the next "victim."

Don’t Let History Repeat Itself – Network Monitoring and Reporting with WatchPoint

WatchPoint from WildPackets records your network history, minute by minute, from multiple sources, including SNMP, NetFlow, sFlow and WildPackets network analysis probes. Data from these varied sources are aggregated into a single reporting solution, for months or even years, providing both up-to-the-minute and long-term historical reporting and analysis of network events. When used with WildPackets network analysis and recording probes, including TimeLine, additional network details like Expert analysis and VoIP performance are also recorded for both up-to-the-minute and long-term historical reporting. With WatchPoint, you'll understand when history should be repeated, and when it should be avoided!

In this web seminar, we will cover:

• Key technologies used in long-term network reporting
• The limitations of single technology approaches
• The value of long-term historical reporting and analysis

What you will learn:

• Determining long-term trends using WatchPoint
• Troubleshooting ongoing issues with WatchPoint
• Generating detailed, scheduled reports
• Linking directly from high-level reporting to detailed packet analysis

Forensic Analysis for Network Security

Forensic analysis for network security involves capturing network data for analysis minutes, hours, or even days after a network event has occurred. How can forensic analysis help organizations tighten their network security and improve their compliance with internal security policies and industry regulations? Learn from the customer case studies presented in this informative webcast.

Improving the IP Telephony Experience: How to Troubleshoot Converged Networks

IT and Telecom departments are realizing that the performance of the underlying infrastructure is paramount to successful VoIP implementation with Unified Communications (UC). To get the real benefits of UC, your network needs to perform at optimal levels.

In this webcast, you'll receive a framework that allows you to answer the following questions:

• How Do You Deal with the Challenges of Jitter, Packet Loss, Echo/Delay, and Voice Signal to Noise?
• How Do You Balance High-speed, Bursty Data Requirements with Requirements of High Quality Voice Calls?
• How Do You Create Help Desk Guidelines to Correctly Direct Problems to a Voice or LAN/WAN Subject Matter Expert?
• How Do You Make Sure that When Adding UC to the Mix that Your Users are Receiving the QoS that They Deserve?

Measuring Application Response Time - The Devil is in the Details

Given the importance of this data, a clear understanding of the methods in use, and their accuracy, is critical in choosing and employing solutions to monitor, report, and troubleshoot application response times.

In this web seminar, we will cover:

• Various definitions of application response time
• Methods for measuring and reporting application response time
• Pros and cons of each method
• Importance of application response time assessment in Cloud computing

What you will learn:

1. The best approaches for application response time measurement and reporting
2. Understanding and interpreting application response time data from various measurement methods
3. How to integrate application response time troubleshooting with current measurement techniques

Monitoring and Analyzing Networks for Telepresence

Though telepresence can’t transport molecules, it is transporting a great deal of data, mixing together already complex data types, like voice and video, with your already busy data network. And as with most new technologies, the need to analyze and troubleshoot failures is always greater for the early adopters. Are you prepared to monitor, analyze, and troubleshoot your telepresence deployment? Can you rely on the utilities provided by your vendor, or is independent analysis and verification required? And how about mixed mode deployments? To prepare you for a successful video conferencing deployment, this web seminar will address the following topics:

• Current trends in telepresence
• Anatomy of a telepresence system
• Telepresence: a complicated marriage of VoIP and Video over IP
• Typical voice and video technologies used in telepresence
• Monitoring and analyzing telepresence performance on your network

What you will learn:

1. Establish requirements for monitoring and analyzing telepresence deployments
2. Determine which metrics to use for monitoring and analyzing telepresence deployments
3. Size network analysis solutions for telepresence deployments
4. Adapt existing network analysis solutions for telepresence deployments

Live long and prosper.

Network Analysis at 10G: Real-time Statistics and VoIP

Which network analysis systems can handle throughput at 10Gbps, especially with a high percentage of small packets that are characteristic of VoIP traffic? Which systems can display VoIP statistics in real-time, providing critical data and alerts on current VoIP performance, while also saving 10Gbps traffic to disk for more detailed post capture analysis? Which systems can capture and analyze the traffic from your busy enterprise VoIP system - thousands of concurrent VoIP calls?

Your choices in addressing these issues are limited. In this webinar, Jim Frey, Managing Research Director at Enterprise Management Associates and Jay Botelho, Director of Product Management at WildPackets discuss the challenges network engineers face and walk you through your options.

They will cover:

• Challenges of capturing and analyzing mixed network data on heavily utilized 10G network segments
• Conflicting demands of traditional (TCP/IP) data analysis and VoIP analysis
• Critical VoIP statistics and their relationship to call quality
• A real-time demo of the TimeLine appliance for network forensics

What you will learn:

• Best practices for monitoring and analyzing heavily utilized 10G network segments with mixed data types
• How to configure TimeLine for optimum network analysis and troubleshooting

About the Speakers

Jim Frey is the Managing Research Director at Enterprise Management Associates. Jim has 24 years of experience in the computing industry developing, deploying, managing, and marketing software and hardware products, with the last 18 of those years spent in network management, straddling both enterprise and service provider sectors. At Enterprise Management Associates, Jim is responsible for the Network Management practice area.

Jay Botelho is the Director of Product Management at WildPackets, Inc. Jay holds an MSEE, and is an industry veteran with over 25 years of experience in product management, product marketing, program management and complex analysis. From the first mobile computers developed by GRiD Systems to modern day network infrastructure systems, Jay has been instrumental in setting corporate direction, specifying requirements for industry-leading hardware and software products, and growing product sales through targeted product marketing.

Network Analysis when deploying EMR, EHR, and PACS Systems

Agenda:

• Understanding the impact different Health Care Information Systems can have on your network's performance
• Establishing a baseline of normal network behavior
• Recognizing the need for Pre-Deployment Network Assessments
• Bandwidth demands for EMR, EHR, and PACS: Monitoring Gigabit and 10 Gigabit Networks
• Ending the Application Vs. the Network rivalry: "Show me the proof and stop the finger pointing!"
• Q&A

Network Forensics – Your Only Choice at 10G

Network forensics remains one of the hottest topics in network analysis, especially with the exploding deployments of 10 Gigabit (10G) gear. Though often considered for security analysis, especially the identification of network intrusions, network forensics can and should be used for much more general network analysis purposes.

At 10G, real-time network analysis is essentially unmanageable. The only effective way to deal with 10G traffic is to quickly screen incoming data for key network performance indicators and then to store the data for in-depth analysis of small slices of pertinent data as the need arises. Again, this in-depth analysis need not be security oriented – network forensics works equally well in identifying spikes in utilization, drops in VoIP call quality and increased latency, whether network or application. At 10G speeds this isn’t easy to accomplish, but with network forensics you’ll make quick work of it.

In this web seminar, we will cover:

• Key technologies used in network forensics
• Applicability of network forensics in analyzing typical network performance issues
• Combining real-time capabilities with network forensics for effective 10G network analysis

What you will learn:

• How to effectively capture and manage 10G traffic for network analysis
• How to use real-time key network performance indicators to identify potential problems
• How to use network forensics to analyze and solve typical network performance issues

Planning for Success – Wireless Network Design, Analysis, and Troubleshooting

In this web seminar, we will cover:

• Wireless network design and verification
• Pre-deployment analysis
• Real-time network analysis and troubleshooting
• Managing expanded usage

What you will learn:

1. How to use site survey software for design and verification
2. How to use network analysis software for monitoring and troubleshooting
3. How to use spectrum analysis software to confirm cases of interference

Stop Streaming That Movie – I Need To Check My Email

Video is the fastest growing data type on the network, any network, and it’s growing at alarming rates. By many analysts’ estimates, video already consumes more than 50% of the bandwidth on many networks, including enterprise networks, and the percentage is only going up. That much bandwidth consumed by a single data type is alarming on its own, but when you consider the unique, time-sensitive nature of video, and the large data streams typically generated, it’s clear that something is going to give on your network.

Join as we "tune into" this explosive growth in video and how it impacts your enterprise network. Is all your video traffic really business oriented? Does video traffic spike around noon? Are you using telepresence? The answers to these questions can have a significant impact on how you address video on your network. If you don’t know the answers, this web seminar will help you find out.

In this web seminar, we will cover:

• Current trends in video over IP
• Unique requirements for delivery of high-quality video
• Conflicting requirements for data and video/voice
• Analyzing video on IP networks

What you will learn:

• How to determine overall video usage on your network
• How to assess the impact of video traffic that is not "business justified"
• How to ensure and monitor high quality video delivery

The Blind Spot in Virtual Networks: Seeing with Network Analysis

The move towards virtual servers is no longer just a trend. As IT budgets and staff shrink, virtualization has become a way of life in the data center, reducing the cost of equipment, management and even utilities. However, it's not just servers, but the entire network infrastructure that is being virtualized, creating realities in network analysis that must be addressed. Network virtualization creates a blind spot - a loss of visibility into traffic between virtual applications when using traditional network analysis products and techniques. In this webcast, we dissect this problem and demonstrate ways to overcome these network blind spots.

Specific topics include:

• Describing the cause of virtual network blind spots
• Network analysis from a VMware workstation
• Network analysis with VMware ESX

You will also learn how to:

1. Establish goals for virtual network analysis
2. Define hardware requirements to meet analysis goals
3. Configure your virtual network for the realities of network analysis

The Need for Speed – Analyzing and Troubleshooting 10Gig Networks

Your 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10G) network segments give you all the bandwidth you need to accommodate your ever-increasing network load and mix of network services. But with the 10x increase in traffic over your legacy 1G segments comes an equivalent increase in complexity in monitoring, managing and troubleshooting. What can you do to address this increased management complexity? Which techniques that worked well with 1G network segments should you avoid? What best practices should be applied?

Achieving both real-time visibility and storing historical network traffic for post-incident analysis is possible in 10G environments – you just have much more data to manage. Careful attention to detail when configuring network management systems will reward you with the analysis and troubleshooting results you desire.

In this web seminar, we will cover:

• Common pitfalls in 10Gig network analysis
• The differences for network analysis in 1Gig and 10Gig environments
• Matching network analysis requirements with the appropriate network analysis techniques

What you will learn:

1. Work within the hardware limitations of network analysis probes
2. Optimize data collection settings to meet the demands of your network and your analysis solution
3. Use advanced settings like hardware filtering and time stamping to your advantage
4. Determine the proper placement of network analysis probes to ensure network management and troubleshooting success

The Need for Speed – No More Compromises!

But no longer. Now the era of compromise in 10G analysis and troubleshooting is over! Introducing the TimeLine network recorder from WildPackets.

TimeLine is the networking industry’s first network analysis, monitoring, and troubleshooting appliance truly capable of meeting the demands of 10G analysis and troubleshooting — without compromise. Capture and store all the traffic on your 10G network segment without slicing and dicing the data. View real-time network performance, including VoIP statistics, while capturing all packets to disk for further post-capture analysis. Use the highest-performing network forensics solution available with the most advanced Expert network analysis options to quickly spot "the needle in the haystack", identifying problem areas and determining the root cause of network issues in record time.

This web seminar provides a detailed look into the new TimeLine appliance from WildPackets, the fastest and most capable network analysis and troubleshooting appliance on the market. In the web seminar, we will cover:

• Current compromises in 10G analysis and troubleshooting
• An overview of the TimeLine appliance
• Use of the TimeLine appliance for network forensics
• A real-time demo of the capabilities of TimeLine

What you will learn:

• Best practices for analysis and troubleshooting of 10G networks, without compromise
• How to configure TimeLine for optimum network analysis and troubleshooting

Total Virtual Network Analysis

The migration to virtual computing architectures has created a new blind spot in the enterprise: the traffic between virtual servers in the same physical chassis. This "invisible traffic" never crosses any physical network segment where it can be easily captured, creating a problem for any data center team trying to troubleshoot, optimize, or secure its virtual server operations.

As enterprises virtualize more and more of their data center operations, these blind spots grow. As a result, network engineers have little or no visibility into the traffic among virtual servers. Until now…

With the combination of Net Optics Phantom Virtual Tap and WildPackets OmniPeek® network analyzer, network engineers get complete access to the network and application traffic traversing virtual servers. The Phantom Virtual Tap eliminates the blind spots created by invisible traffic and enables network engineers to use the powerful root-cause analysis capabilities of OmniPeek to troubleshoot, optimize, benchmark, and secure virtual servers and virtual applications.

In this joint webinar from Net Optics and WildPackets, you will learn how to:

1. Establish goals and best practices for virtual network analysis
2. Define hardware requirements to meet analysis goals
3. Configure your virtual network for the realities of network analysis

About the Speakers

Jay Botelho is the Director of Product Management at WildPackets, Inc. Jay holds an MSEE, and is an industry veteran with over 25 years of experience in product management, product marketing, program management and complex analysis. From the first mobile computers developed by GRiD Systems to modern day network infrastructure systems, Jay has been instrumental in setting corporate direction, specifying requirements for industry-leading hardware and software products, and growing product sales through targeted product marketing.

Ran Nahmias is the Director, Virtualization & Cloud Solutions, at Net Optics. Ran has over 15 years of experience in networking, security, desktop and server virtualization in engineering, product management and deployment roles for market leaders such as Check Point Software Technologies, Nice Systems, Microsoft and Net Optics.

Total Wi-Fi Analysis

Whether by design or by default, every company has a wireless network. Unless you understand, control and manage this network, you are creating serious vulnerabilities that threaten network security. As more and 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 the only viable solution. With OmniPeek, WildPackets continues to address this need head-on. WildPackets has a complete offering to address wireless network analysis, from the wireless network edge all the way to the data center. OmniPeek addresses the need for portable, simultaneous analysis of wired and wireless network segments, including full support for analysis of 802.11n Draft 2.0 wireless equipment; for remote wireless sensing using the existing AP infrastructure; and for remote analysis of both wired and wireless segments, using WildPackets OmniEngine products. Learn about the challenges and successes of other organizations faced with troubleshooting Wi-Fi networks.

Tune Up Your Network for the New Year

In this web seminar, we will cover:

• Critical elements to consider when evaluating your network
• Common pitfalls and how to avoid them
• Developing and using network baselines
• Optimizing network usage in the presence of competing applications and protocols
• Monitoring and reporting on your well-tuned network

What you will learn:

1. How and where to find the data you need
2. How to automate network monitoring and analysis to ensure the success of your tune up
3. How to quickly diagnose problems when things go wrong

Voice over Wi-Fi (VoFi) - Can You Manage It?

New problems come hand in hand with a new technology, so you’ll need to be prepared to monitor, manage, and troubleshoot your VoFi traffic. WildPackets’ OmniPeek products combine our award winning wireless network analysis capabilities with our industry-leading VoIP analysis to deliver the most accurate and complete VoFi analysis product available today.

In this webcast, Jay Botelho, Director of Product Management focuses on the VoFi capabilities of OmniPeek and its ability to handle the complex analysis required to address VoFi.

Specific topics include:

• Overview of general 802.11n capabilities including multichannel aggregation
• Capturing data for VoFi analysis
• Monitoring the overall VoFi deployment
• Using VoIP metrics to identify problems
• Analyzing a VoFi call packet by packet
• Using call playback to verify voice quality
• Wireless roaming analysis and its effect on VoFi quality

VoIP Analysis: Finding and Fixing VoIP Call Quality Issues

Traditional telephone services have typically gained a reputation of providing excellent voice quality and superior reliability. Consequently, users expect their phone systems will provide high quality with virtually no downtime. Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) is changing the rules on how we monitor, analyze, and troubleshoot our networks. Unless all of your VoIP users are sitting in your data center, the only way to truly understand call quality and network performance requires you to have visibility into all your VoIP traffic-at both ends of the conversation!

In this webcast, you'll learn:

• What Six Factors Contribute to Poor Voice Quality
• How to Establish Metrics for Evaluating VoIP Call Quality
• How to Troubleshoot and Fix Poor Voice Quality with WildPackets OmniPeek

WildPackets Compass – Navigating Shark-Infested Waters

Introducing WildPackets Compass, a software application that allows you to visualize the contents of any packet file, including those from Wireshark, providing immediate insight into your network without a detailed dive into each and every packet. With Compass, network utilization rises to the surface, allowing you to determine how your network is being used over any slice in time, and guiding you to exactly those areas that require deeper analysis. Compass is highly intuitive and easy to use, with a free version for visualizing individual packet trace files.

Join us at this web seminar to see how easy it is to take packet traces from any software, including WireShark, and visualize exactly what is going on in the network before diving in deeper.

In this web seminar, we will cover:

• Commonly available packet capture software and techniques
• The complexity of "packet only" views
• The highly intuitive Compass application

What you will learn:

• How to transform packet files into network dashboards
• How to correlate network data to rapidly identify issues
• How to quickly isolate areas for deeper analysis
• How to navigate large data sets and find exactly the information you need

Wireless Campus Networks

This web seminar examines the issues associated with monitoring, analyzing and troubleshooting campus-wide and multi-campus wireless deployments. Long gone are the days when walking around with a portable wireless network analyzer is a feasible approach to addressing wireless issues. You need active, immediate alerts before the trouble starts and the help desk gets flooded. You need to be able to reach out into the network at a moment’s notice, anywhere in the world, to collect data and analyze possible problem areas. Specifically, this web seminar will address the following aspects of wireless campus networks:

• Wireless campus growth and 802.11n
• More users, more problems
• New technologies require new network analysis techniques
• Preparing for expanded wireless services

What you will learn:

1. How to manage distributed wireless LANs
2. How to leverage existing assets for WLAN analysis
3. The importance of analyzing both wired and wireless segments simultaneously

Wireless LAN Operations: 5 Key Challenges that Stifle Productivity

In the evolution of wireless technology and its uses for everyday business operations, wireless infrastructure has evolved organically with little planning. This webcast covers five often overlooked issues with wireless LANs that can affect your business. Craig Mathias helps you determine whether your WLAN is a still a silo or a robust platform for mission-critical applications. He also covers:

• Mixed networks where 802.11n coexists with a/b/g
• Distributed/remote WLAN analysis
• Wireless as the base platform for other technologies such as VoIP
• "Wireless" problems that arise from other pieces of your IT infrastructure
• Security policies that transcend the wireless network and affect your entire organization

You'll finish the webcast with a checklist for evaluating and correcting the risk factors in your environment.

Your Applications Are Distributed, How About Your Network Analysis Solution?

Corporate computing has crossed the threshold to highly distributed, and it doesn’t matter if your corporation has 50 or 50,000 employees. The reasons are many, including cloud usage, SAAS subscriptions, or just highly distributed enterprise networks and users. Have your network analysis capabilities evolved with your corporate computing infrastructure?

Traditional network analysis and troubleshooting solutions were centralized, and back when all corporate computing assets were located in and routed through a central data center this approach worked well. But with more and more applications migrating from your data center to remote locations (cloud or otherwise), your ability to monitor, analyze and troubleshoot mission critical application performance is compromised by a centralized network analysis approach. It’s imperative that you also distribute your network analysis capabilities. More than that, you need to evolve from a "point and shoot" network troubleshooting approach to a distributed, 24x7 network monitoring approach. Distributing your network analysis capabilities and monitoring 24x7 allows you to respond to network issues before they become full blown problems and to analyze and troubleshoot issues proactively vs. reactively. Join us to examine the technologies and approaches to best deal with today’s highly distributed network applications.

In this web seminar, we will cover:

• Current trends in enterprise application distribution
• Key performance indicators when monitoring overall application performance
• Network analysis architectures for today’s distributed application environment
• Benefits of employing distributed, 24x7 solutions for application and network performance monitoring

What you will learn:

• How to effectively use network analysis solutions for application performance monitoring
• How to deploy network analysis solutions to ensure adequate coverage of your network
• Why "point and shoot" network troubleshooting approaches are no longer enough

"It’s Not a Matter of If, But When…" - Network Forensics, the Ultimate Security Tool

Another common theme in the breaches of the past few years is that there is no common theme – every breach is unique. Gone are the days when attacks are global and generic, when once identified an attack can be quickly isolated and neutralized. Breaches today are specifically targeted, often exploiting weaknesses not just in hardware or software systems, but in operational procedures, personal habits, and the abundance of information available on the Internet and via social networking.

The uniqueness of each attack renders traditional solutions, like IDS/IPS solutions, useless. Not only may such solutions miss the initial exploitation, but they have no means to help in identifying to what degree the network was comprised and what data is at risk. The only viable approach is to constantly capture all network traffic, and employ Network Forensics, to characterize not only the breach, but to also assess the damage, ensure no further compromise, and comply with corporate and legal requirements for reporting.

In this web seminar, we will cover:

• An overview of recent network breaches and their characteristics
• A comprehensive description of Network Forensics
• The unique challenges of Network Forensics on highly-utilized 10G networks
• Using Network Forensics to identify and manage network breaches

What you will learn:

1. Tips and techniques for capturing data for Network Forensic analysis
2. Using Network Forensics to identify and characterize breaches
3. Establishing guidelines for ongoing network data collection for Network Forensics