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Letter from the Editor | Problem Resolution Video | Featured Customer
Recent Announcements | Upcoming Events | Product Tips and Tricks

LETTER FROM THE EDITOR

Mark the date - March 3rd - BIG changes are coming to WildPackets! When we launched Peeks, we gave you - our readers - a sneak peek at our new logo and color scheme in the Peeks masthead. So, be sure to come back to our website next Tuesday for the official unveiling.

In addition to these exciting changes, we've been hard at work upgrading custom extensions and delivering network monitoring and management best practices. In December, Chris Bloom, released the Ping Latency Monitor. His latest version includes ping scan, built-in graphs, and rolling averages.

We're now offering best practice content in a variety of formats. Our popular "Improving the IP Telephony Experience: How to Troubleshoot Converged Networks" presentation is available as an OnDemand Webcast as well as a presentation on SlideShare.

We're offering "Best Practices for Analyzing 10G Ethernet Traffic" web seminar on March 10, 2009 at 8:30 AM PST (11:30 AM EST). Jay Botelho, Director of Product Management, will discuss proper placement of network analysis probes to ensure network management and troubleshooting success, as well as optimizing data collection settings so that you're collecting and analyzing the data you expect. He'll also go over techniques you may have used with your 1GbE network segments - giving you the lowdown on which will work as expected and which should be avoided.

Please let us know which format and delivery method you like and prefer for best practice content, as well as tell us what topics you'd like to see covered in a future web seminar or newsletter article. We want to make sure that we're providing timely and useful information.

Sincerely,

Eden Hensley
Director of Marketing Communication

PROBLEM RESOLUTION VIDEO: DISTRIBUTED ANALYSIS

Ever wondered when you should use OmniEngine over OmniPeek for distributed analysis? Wonder no more! In this short video, Jim Thor, Network Engineer and Technical Instructor, goes over some benefits of using OmniEngine versus OmniPeek - minimized bandwidth utilization, encryption, support for multiple simultaneous users, and forensic search.
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FEATURED CUSTOMER

Northwest Tri-County Intermediate Unit (IU5)

“We were in situations where we had networking failures and couldn't put our finger on the root cause. All this translated into an unacceptable amount of downtime, not to mention very unhappy users. OmniPeek allows all of us to pinpoint performance issues quickly in an automated fashion, eliminating a significant amount of time required with manual network troubleshooting exercises.”
—Vincent Humes,
Director of Technology Solutions at IU5

The Northwest Tri-County Intermediate Unit (IU5) supports school districts by creating and implementing quality services to meet students' needs, providing high-quality IT network support for its 19 school districts and career centers within Pennsylvania. IU5 has a multi-server data center that handles a wide array of systems including IP phones, video conferencing, web application servers, database servers, and so on as well as numerous virtualization instances. The organization supports numerous wireless networks – some of which are secured for internal use, while others are open to the general public. Learn how IU5 successfully manages its network complexities.

Psst... Have a story you'd like to share? Want to see your name in print? Drop us or your account manager a line and we'll help you trumpet your unsung success.

RECENT ANNOUNCEMENTS

• WildPackets and Net Optics Sign Fiducia as Their Largest Common Installation WildPackets Press Release Feb 17th 2009
• Network World Awards WildPackets' OmniPeek a Perfect 5: OmniPeek aces six-product WLAN bake-off WildPackets Press Release Feb 4th 2009