For over 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.

Academic institutions have a long history of applying the latest technological innovation to their networking infrastructures. Seeking to meet the needs of tech savvy and ever more demanding students, educational institutions have been at the cutting edge of networking. Many 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. And, by 2013, ABI Research predicts 99% of North American universities will offer WiFi.

Keeping campus networks highly available and performing optimally is 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.

Adding to their challenge, is the very nature of educational institutions:

• Hodge podge of both current-generation and legacy hardware
• Little control over the types and numbers of devices that connect to the network, with many devices WiFi-enabled
• Staff with a wide range of experience, from part-time students working in computer labs to experienced network engineers
• Tech-savvy students with expectations of fast, reliable campus wide network access and bandwidth-intensive needs

With distributed network performance monitoring and analysis solutions from WildPackets, network managers can keep their campus networks highly available and performing optimally. With simple, intuitive troubleshooting and analysis tools even junior members of the IT staff can keep the network running smoothly and securely. Unlike some solutions, WildPackets analyzers deliver wired and wireless traffic information in one simple user interface. At a glance, IT staff can capture all wired wireless traffic in real-time across multiple Access Points (APs) and multiple channels.

WildPackets solutions deliver:

• Real-time expert analysis for rapid troubleshooting
• Remote segment analysis, enabling troubleshooting and optimizing network segments on other floors and in remote buildings
• Support for both wired and wireless technologies

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. Educational institutions now have the opportunity to deploy distributed network analysis solutions across campuses. Site licenses of OmniPeek Connect and OmniEngine Enterprise or single licenses of OmniPeek Professional are available at discounted prices to ensure complete coverage of campus 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.