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subscribe to Peeks | newsletter archives | January 2012 | Volume 4 Issue 1

LETTER FROM THE EDITOR

Welcome to the first edition of the Peeks Newsletter in 2012! We had a great 2011 here at WildPackets and we are excited to start the New Year with a look at Application Visibility in this edition.

We are also looking forward to our first Network Performance Roundtable Series of 2012, kicking off in February. We hope you will join us to discuss best practices for monitoring, analyzing, and troubleshooting 10G networks, virtual environments, VoIP calls, and much more. More details and can be found on our blog.

Do you think you have your 802.11n acronyms aced? Take our fun quiz and test your knowledge. Plus, you'll be entered for a chance to win one of three $75 Amazon Gift Cards (US entrants only)!

Speaking of quizzes and polls, the results from our "Favorite OmniPeek Plug-in" poll have been determined. Our users said that the Google Map Plug-in and the Remote TCPDump Enterprise Adapter topped the list of their favorite OmniPeek add-ons. You can see the full results of the poll here – thanks to all who participated!

We also would like to thank you for subscribing to the Peeks Newsletter. As always, our goal is to continue to provide you with engaging and informative content this year – look out for the next edition in March, when we will be focusing on Cyber Security.

Sincerely,
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Eden Hensley
Director of Marketing Communications

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FOCUS ON: Application Visibility

To have a complete view of your network health, visibility into your applications is essential. An application performance management program should pull together measurements from applications, servers and databases to not only ensure that applications are running as expected, but also to detect and pinpoint any problems that arise. With so many metrics to measure, how can you turn this data into something that ultimately characterizes the experience of end users on the network? Below are a few tools that can get you started.

Measuring Application Response Time – The Devil is in the Details (webcast): Discover the best approaches for measuring and reporting application response time. Learn how to interpret and compare data from various measurement methods. Watch now.
Your Applications Are Distributed, How About Your Network Analysis Solution? (webinar): Can your network analysis solution adequately monitor and troubleshoot the distributed applications that drive your business? Join us Thursday January 19th at 8:30am PST to examine the technologies and approaches to best deal with today's highly distributed network applications. RSVP today.
Application Performance Index: Measuring the Quality of Experience (white paper): Many performance metrics exist for determining application performance. In this whitepaper, learn how the Application Performance Index (Apdex) normalizes these incompatible metrics and characterizes an end user's experience with an application. Download now.
Latency Monitor (extensibility software - available to customers with current maintenance or as part of the OmniPeek Demo download) Measure network and application latency, graphing them together to easily determine which one is the culprit. Set alarms to inform you if latency thresholds are exceeded. Download now.

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ESSENTIAL PACK: OmniPeek with 10 Most Popular Plug-ins

OmniPeek Enterprise is WildPackets' flagship product, offering an intuitive, easy-to-use graphical interface that you can use to rapidly analyze and troubleshoot enterprise networks. With this user interface and "top-down" approach to visualizing network conditions, even junior staff can quickly analyze, drill down and fix performance bottlenecks across multiple network segments, maximizing uptime and user satisfaction.

With its extensible architecture, OmniPeek can be easily tailored to your individual network requirements with advanced analysis extensions available to provide features like application vs network latency, email and instant message analysis, netflow and sflow statistics, and more.

This essential pack includes a demo version of OmniPeek Enterprise along with the top ten most popular OmniPeek plug-ins, including the Google Map plug-in, Remote TCPDump Enterprise adapter, and SQLFilter plug-in. Download the pack today and test drive OmniPeek.

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Contributed Articles

Identify Unauthorized Video Traffic - LoveMyTool, December 14th, 2011
Key Questions a Cyber Security Solution Must Answer - LoveMyTool, December 7th, 2011
Three Cool Things You Can Do with Compass Live - LoveMyTool, November 16th, 2011
Upgrading to 802.11N? - You should Consider! - LoveMyTool, November 2nd, 2011

Media Coverage

Five Tips to Help Your SMB Switch to 802.11n Wi-Fi - ITBusiness Edge, December 12th, 2011

VIDEO SPOTLIGHT

Change The Way You Think About Application Performance Monitoring for Distributed Applications

With SAAS, the cloud, and widely distributed enterprise networks, application infrastructure has changed. The metrics you need for application performance analysis haven't. Join Jay and Joe as they discuss changing characteristics such as growing latencies and increased application turns and use OmniPeek to analyze and troubleshoot network performance issues in a distributed, multitier environment. Watch now.

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