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Letter from the Editor | Survey | Article | Upcoming Event
Slides | Upcoming Events | Video Tutorial | Product Tips and Tricks

LETTER FROM THE EDITOR

Thank you to everyone who stopped by at Interop '09 last week. We enjoyed getting to meet you and hear about how you're managing and monitoring network performance. As requested, we've posted the slides from our mini-courses. Also, many of you participated in our informal network traffic survey. Check out the findings below.

If you missed us at Interop '09, and are going to be in San Francisco for Cisco Live! at the end of this month (June 29 - July 2), we'd love to see you.

Unable to make it out to San Francisco? Join us virtually on June 17th at 8:30 AM for an expanded version of our most popular mini-course, "Beyond NetFlow...The Need for Centralized Network Monitoring." Register today.

Sincerely,

Eden Hensley
Director of Marketing Communication

SURVEY: NETWORK TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT AND ANALYSIS

At Interop '09, we asked our mini-course attendees three questions:

1. What types of networks do you manage?
2. What is your average network throughput?
3. What are your primary usages for network traffic analysis software?

For the most part, our findings mirrored trends reported elsewhere. However, one trend we were surprised to find was that very few respondents (7%) use network traffic analysis software for post-capture (forensic) analysis. The majority of respondents continue to use the software for either local (55%) or distributed (41%) real-time troubleshooting and analysis.

Read more about what we found.

Like to participate in our survey? Tell us about your network and how you're using network traffic analysis software. If you'd like to be entered into a drawing for the latest iPod Touch (drawing to be held 6/19/2009 and winner announced in the July Peeks newsletter).

Congrats to Interop's winner, Chris Gangwish of Boulder, CO.

ARTICLE: NO LONGER YOUR PARENTS' PROTOCOL ANALYZER!

While troubleshooting is one of the core competencies of a protocol analyzer, by using it primarily in this way, network engineers might be missing out on the advantages of triggering, alarming, and reporting functionality. Jim Thor walks you through a comparison of a protocol analyzer with some of the other technologies available for managing your network and discusses the use of a protocol analyzer in Infrastructure Analysis. Read more >>

UPCOMING EVENT: CISCO LIVE 09

This year Cisco Live 09, the premier education and training event for IT, networking, and communications professionals, celebrates its 20th year in San Francisco June 27 through July 2. Hear the latest on Cisco solutions as well as explore solutions from more than 140 Cisco partners, including WildPackets and Coleman Technologies (the latest partner to join our growing partner network).

Stop by our booth - Booth 342 - where we'll be offering the three most popular mini-courses from Interop.

1. Beyond Netflow... Need for Centralized Network Monitoring
2. Slaying the 3-Headed Monster of Jitter, Packet Loss and Latency: VoIP Call Quality
3. Finding the Needle in the Haystack: Digital Forensics

Seating is limited, so let us know which session you'd like to attend and we'll hold a seat for you. Everyone who joins us for a mini-course has the opportunity to win the latest iPod Touch. World of Solutions Expo passes are available at no cost until June 26th, so register for your complimentary pass today.

SLIDES: INTEROP 09 MINI-COURSE SESSIONS

Enjoyed our mini-course sessions at Interop and want to share with a colleague? Or did you miss us and want to take a look at what was presented? Either way, we've got you covered. Slides from the four mini-courses can be downloaded from our website.