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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Gone is the luxury of sending network engineers to physically visit a site to troubleshoot performance issues. Today's geographically distributed companies and distributed applications require a 24x7 proactive approach to measuring and monitoring application performance. This paper defines Application Response Time (ART), presents factors to consider when troubleshooting the performance of distributed applications, and identifies "must have" criteria for distributed application analysis solutions.
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In today’s world it seems that more people do not understand why they need a protocol analyzer for their network. A few years back, it seemed that more people had the understanding of just how important the analyzer was. For some reason, as networks have become smarter, and much more complex, this understanding seems to have dissipated for some reason. This brief white paper explains exactly why why you need a network analyzer.
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With highly utilized networks, capturing network traffic with individual SPAN ports and taps typically results in spotty overall visibility of your network. In today’s 10 Gigabit (10G) world, you need a purpose-built network forensic solution in place capturing ALL network data, 24x7, to ensure a stable and safe network. Network forensics isn’t just about uncovering and analyzing security breaches; it can and should be used every day to examine far more common issues on your network, like spikes in utilization, drops in VoIP call quality, and increased latency, whether network or application.
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As network technologies continue to march forward, becoming faster and faster to accommodate the burgeoning demands of service and application growth, the rest of the operations organization must keep pace. Such is the case with the shift to 10Gbps Ethernet, which is fast becoming the predominant choice for core and distribution networks and is now working its way into the access layer. 10G brings with it non-trivial challenges for performance monitoring tools – particularly those based on packet inspection, which represent the most definitive basis for detailed troubleshooting. And beyond reactive forensics, these same technologies need to lend real-time visibility into who and what is driving network activity, to improve the efficiency of remedial actions and open the door for proactive practices.
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Ten gigabit-per-second (10G) Ethernet technology has been in existence for well over a decade, but is just now reaching peak rates of adoption and is fast becoming the predominant choice for enterprise backbone and data center fabric networks. And while early deployments enjoyed substantial headroom in terms of capacity, the sustained march of application and service technology evolution is rapidly consuming that open, available space, leading to higher and higher rates of utilization. These trends are converging to drive a critical decision point for network operations professionals, as existing application-aware network performance tools, and in particular, packet-inspection probes and stream-to-disk forensic analysis appliances, are not architected to handle such high transmission volumes. This ENTERPRISE MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATES® (EMA™) report examines the forces behind the challenge, the impact that 10G will have on network management tools and technologies, and the options available for making the transition to successfully monitoring today’s high-speed 10G Ethernet networks.
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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 – a technique that lets you know when there’s a problem and why there’s a problem, 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 solving network security problems. With today’s increasingly interconnected, always online workforce, it’s often business-critical issues that have nothing to do with security or cyber attacks, for example, violations of industry regulations or degradation in application performance that drive the need for post-incident analysis. Whether accidental or malicious, the time to start capturing the digital evidence to solve any network issue is before a specific event actually happens. Are you ready?
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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. To help mitigate these attacks, you’re faced with monitoring security appliances, detecting intrusions, assessing compliance with policies, analyzing external threats, evaluating potential internal threats, and more. Yet network breaches still occur, and when they do you need a record of the breach so you can perform a forensic analysis on the attack and prevent future occurences. Network forensic solutions have four basic elements – data capture, data discovery, data analysis, and data record – to reduce your mean time to resolution when a problem is reported or detected. With throughput continuing to increase, you need to be able to sift through various data. This white paper covers three phases of a digital investigation so that you can get to the root cause quickly.
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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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Intro to Wireless Networking: In-Depth Look at 802.11 Standards. This white paper covers WLAN Physical-Layer standards, regulation, and common topologies, then explores the mechanics of a connection, including authentication, association, and confidentiality.
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Care and feeding guide for optimizing your wireless network. This white paper outlines best practices in monitoring, analyzing, and troubleshooting wireless networks, guiding you through developing a baseline and testing your WLAN design to managing signals and users to administering and troubleshooting your WLAN.
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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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