WildPackets Peeks Newsletter - VOIP STARTER KIT

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subscribe | newsletter archives | November 2008 | Volume 1 Issue 1

LETTER FROM THE EDITOR

Welcome to the first edition of Peeks™ – WildPackets’ monthly newsletter. Starting this month we’ll be distributing Peeks the last Wednesday of each month – with a break in December – and filling it with networking analysis best practices, insightful product tips and custom extensions, as well as featuring customers and covering recent news and upcoming events.

We also have two other programs of interest that deliver best practices and news to you. This summer, we launched the MyPeek™ Community Portal - an online resource with best practices, technical content, and product information for customers and site visitors. If you haven’t yet checked it out, view the guided tour and sign up today. If you had a WildPackets Developer Network (WPDN) account, you’re good to go – it’s the same username and password. With your free MyPeek account, you’ll have access to videos, white papers, extensions and more.

Earlier this month we kicked off our Road Show 2008: Application vs Network in Seattle. One of our technical experts walked participants through two real-world examples and showed how to get the proof you need to stop the blame game. 90% of attendees felt the seminar was interesting and practical, and 80% believed that they’d be able to apply the knowledge learned. We’ll be bringing this seminar to multiple cities across the US over the next few months, sign up for one in your area today. Interested in hosting a road show? Let us know and we’ll bring the seminar to your location.

Have a best practice or product tip you’d like to share? Submit your idea for a story. Besides seeing your name in print you’ll be entered into a monthly drawing for a $50 Amazon gift certificate. See you next month!

Sincerely,

Eden Hensley
Director of Marketing Communication

VOIP STARTER KIT

Is your network crippling your VoIP system? Have you accounted for all twelve factors that affect VoIP services? Complete five simple steps to ensure that a slow network doesn’t spell disaster for your VoIP system. Learn how you can prepare and optimize your network for VoIP and use OmniPeek to improve call quality for users at remote offices. Download our informative kit.

FEATURED CUSTOMER

Newspaper Fixes Network Problems with OmniPeek

“We didn’t have the manpower to do trending analysis prior to OmniPeek. Now when a problem arises, we assign one person instead of a task force of seven or eight. We are saving time and we are saving money.” —Greg Crosby, Network Systems Manager

Greg Crosby of The Seattle Times Company has a heterogeneous IT infrastructure that includes Linux servers, Mac servers, UNIX, Windows and Solaris and an eight-person staff of server administrators, desktop support and network services. Because they use a number of different dispersed networks spread out among multiple business units, monitoring and troubleshooting had always been overwhelming and required a lot of tedious manual packet sniffing. See how Greg uses OmniPeek to streamline their process for troubleshooting network failures: read the SearchNetworking.com article and download the case study.

Product Tips and Tricks

Pump Up The Volume
by Jeff Trawick, WildPackets Professional Services

If you are using WildPackets® OmniEngine or WildPackets® Omnipliance, chances are you are interested in collecting, storing, and analyzing very large volumes of packet data. The key word here is VOLUME! On highly utilized gigabit or 10 gigabit links, hundreds of thousands, or even millions, of packets can be collected in just a few seconds. Processing that many packets takes a lot of horsepower, and OmniEngine is strong enough to handle the flow in most cases. However, every computer system has its limits, so you need to know how to maximize the packet volume that OmniEngine can accommodate. Here are some best practices to consider when setting up your capture options. (read more)

PRODUCT NEWS

NetFlow Analyzer
by Chris Bloom

Getting whiplash switching from screen to screen as you analyze packed-based traffic and Netflow statistics? Well stop your suffering! Now you can use the WildPackets® OmniPeek® UI that you know and love to do both. (read more)