Education

Overview

Educational institutions have become networked institutions. Desktop computers have moved into the classroom, and wireless computers have moved into libraries, hallways, and common areas. A growing percentage of the communications and processes that schools depend on now take place online, including administration workflows, class registration forms, course materials, campus news, and email.

Keeping campus networks highly available and performing optimally has become an important task for campus IT departments. Network outages can disrupt classes, bog down administration procedures, and interrupt daily communications for hundreds or even thousands of people.

WildPackets network analyzers provide education institutions with the graphical, real-time diagnostics they need to find and fix network problems quickly. For the network administrator troubleshooting a network outage moments before a class begins or analyzing traffic flows to identify which student's laptop has introduced a virus, WildPackets analyzers provide indispensable help.

WildPackets analyzers offer an additional benefit for schools. WildPackets' easy-to-use, graphical analysis tools are perfect for teaching students how to analyze and understand network communications in the classroom.

A growing number of educational institutions use WildPackets analyzers to manage their campus networks. These institutions include:

Columbia University Cornell University District School Board of Pasco County Edgewood Middle School Harvard Marion County Massachusetts Institute of Technology Oakland Schools Palm Beach County School District Ridley School District Stanford UCLA University of Michigan Waverly Community Schools

Special Topics: WildPackets Education Site License Program

Academic institutions have a long history of applying the latest technological innovation to their networking infrastructures. Many also have an instructional imperative to train the next generation of IT professionals. In order to effectively deploy new technologies and to properly teach network engineering fundamentals, academic institutions need access to comprehensive, easy-to-use, and affordable network management tools.

Over the past 17 years, WildPackets has sold an increasingly sophisticated but fairly-priced family of packet and expert network analyzers, network monitoring tools, IP test tools, and various networking utilities to hundreds of academic institutions. These institutions use WildPackets products as:

• Teaching tools
• Troubleshooting tools
• Security and performance audit tools
• Operational tool for managing departmental and campus-wide networks

With the purchase of a WildPackets OmniPeek Education Site License, participating institutions enjoy unlimited use* of WildPackets products at a savings of thousand of dollars.

*Colleges and universities can purchase a site license for an entire campus. K-12 institutions can purchase either a campus-wide or a district-wide license.

For pricing and other detailed information on our Education Site License Program, please visit: www.wildpackets.com/solutions/education_program, contact sales@wildpackets.com or call 800-466-2447.

Case Studies

Cornell University Weill Medical College Relies on EtherPeek NX for Rapid Troubleshooting and Network Security

"We needed to figure out what was happening on our huge, diverse network at any moment. EtherPeek NX gives us the ability to troubleshoot and monitor quickly and effectively. It's also a gorgeous tool for securing our network and detecting network attacks."

- Dr. Steven M. Erde
Chief Security Officer and Senior Director of the Office of Academic Computing
Cornell University Weill Medical College

- Complete case study

Flagler College Runs a Lean Response Team with EtherPeek

"We started up EtherPeek and almost immediately we could see that the problem was a huge volume of virus traffic coming from the student dorms. Within minutes, we reconfigured some network devices to reject the virus traffic, and performance came back up to normal." "It's very impressive, what we've been able to do with EtherPeek when we've needed it. It's been invaluable in the few real emergencies we've had here."

-Joe Provenza
Technology Services Director
Flagler College

- Complete case study

Links

EduCause's Net@EDU Initiative, which helps higher education shape and take full advantage of emerging networking opportunities."
http://www.educause.edu/netatedu