Driving Innovation

The networking industry continues to rapidly evolve. As a provider of world-class network analysis solutions, WildPackets both influences and monitors industry developments through active participation in industry and standards-settings organizations. WildPackets is engaged in the following organizations, which include both traditional, network standards bodies and new initiatives for establishing innovative metrics and industry interoperability.

The Apdex Alliance

http://www.apdex.org

The Apdex Alliance is a group of companies collaborating to define and promote an application performance metric called Apdex, a numerical measure of user satisfaction with the performance of enterprise applications, and reflects the effectiveness of IT investments in contributing to business objectives. Apdex is available to any organization seeking insight into their IT investments. Founded in 2004 by Peter Sevcik of NetForecast, the Alliance is headquartered in Charlottesville, Virginia. Visit www.apdex.org for more information.

The Enhanced Wireless Consortium (EWC)

http://www.enhancedwirelessconsortium.org

The Enhanced Wireless Consortium (EWC) was formed to help accelerate the IEEE 802.11n development process and promote a technology specification for interoperability of next-generation wireless local area networking (WLAN) products.

Agilent Technologies & Wi-Fi Alliance (WFA) - Interoperability Certification Labs (ICL)

http://www.wi-fi.org

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.