Download white papers on network analysis and monitoring topics such as network and application performance, network forensics, VoIP analysis and monitoring, wireless networking, and more.

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With the introduction of NetFlow and similar flow-based technologies, solutions based on flow-based data have become the most popular methods of network monitoring. While effective, flow-based network monitoring has a significant limitation – it lacks the depth of data to perform true root-cause analysis. This paper introduces a new concept – Network Monitoring for Analysis. It describes the differences between Network Monitoring and Network Monitoring for Analysis and illustrates a solution that provides the uncompromising performance and capabilities needed to address Network Monitoring for Analysis.
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Network forensics isn't just for troubleshooting or solving network security problems. With today's increasingly interconnected, always online workforce, it's often business-critical issues that have nothing to do with performance or cyber attacks, for example, violations of industry regulations or data breaches that drive the need for post-incident analysis. Whether accidental or malicious, the time to start capturing the digital evidence is before a specific event actually happens. Are you ready? This white paper defines network forensics, dispels some common misperceptions, and describes what you could and should be using it for.
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As a network professional, it's not enough to be focused on network failures. You need to be able to assure network and application performance. And yesterday's tools can leave you shooting in the dark. Read this white paper to eliminate blind spots. With EMA's framework for evaluating performance monitoring and management initiatives you can experience 360o network visibility.
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Every day your organization's network security comes under attack. You're faced with monitoring security appliances, detecting intrusions, assessing compliance with policies, analyzing external threats, evaluating potential internal threats, and more. Today's network forensic solutions need three basic elements - data capture, data discovery, and data analysis - as well as data record so that security teams have the historical data they need to catch stealthy attacks.
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Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) places extreme demands on your network. A slow network can be frustrating to end users as they access websites or corporate email. For VoIP environments, however, a slow network can spell disaster; poor call quality and dropped calls might mean the end of your business. This white paper examines the factors that lead to poor VoIP call quality and outlines the best practices for monitoring, analyzing, and troubleshooting VoIP networks using WildPackets® OmniPeek™.
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The proliferation of wireless handheld devices, such as laptops, PDAs, iPhones, and more, puts increased strain on today's wireless networks. As the technology continues to evolve rapidly, network engineers are in a race to keep up-both with system interoperability concerns, and throughput, reliability, and security issues. Now more than ever, you need a solid understanding of wireless network concepts and technologies so that you can choose the right tools for securing your network and optimizing performance. The security of the new WLANs and their performance depend on active, informed network management. This white paper, the first in a three part series, covers the architecture, topologies, and security issues of wireless networks.
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Network disruptions are no longer minor inconveniences; they have become business disruptions with financial and sometimes even legal consequences. Network engineers need to quickly visualize global network performance and analyze root cause failures as quickly as possible to keep wireless networks and wireless VoIP on mobile devices running smoothly. This white paper, the second in a three part series, outlines best practices in monitoring, analyzing, and troubleshooting wireless networks using WildPackets® OmniPeek™.
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WildPackets is a founding member of the Application Performance Index (Apdex) Alliance, an open consortium of leading vendors in the network analysis and measurement industry that have defined a new performance reporting methodology. The Apdex methodology normalizes all the incompatible performance metrics currently deployed in various other Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and other tools, including network analyzers. Read this free white paper to learn more about the Apdex metric and its usefulness for characterizing an end user's experience with an application.
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Executive Summary Is It the Application or the Network? If you're a network engineer in an organization that runs SAP, you're probably familiar with the challenge of troubleshooting SAP networking problems.
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Something wrong is happening on your network. Call it human nature or simply a few bad apples, but unless your organization is miraculously different from all others, someone is leaking information, someone else is dabbling in porn, and someone else is probably doing a handsome business on eBay-on one of your servers. Time for network forensics.
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