WildPackets

OmniPeek Basic

AiroPeek and EtherPeek are now OmniPeek

Portable Network Analyser and OmniEngine Consoles

OmniPeek Basic is a full-featured, stand-alone network analysis tool. This product is ideal for consulting engineers who solve network problems for others, or for small businesses or remote offices where analysis is confined to a small number of interfaces, with no high-speed (10 Gigabit, Gigabit, or WAN) links and a limited number of employees on the network. OmniPeek Basic can collect network data from a single interface.

Features and Benefits

Real-time Video over IP Analysis

The Media view provides unique real-time VoIP troubleshooting and call drill-down capabilities, such as extensive select-related and parameter filtering capabilities that lead to faster problem identification and resolution. It offers complete, real-time Media analytics to verify call quality using R-Factor and MOS Score measurements.

To identify and locate typical yet hard to diagnose problems on the network, including client authentication, post- dial delay, excessive jitter, and quality of call issues, numerous VoIP-specific expert diagnoses are available.

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Media View

Real-time Application Performance Analysis

OmniPeek is able to aggregate these conversations by application and rate user satisfaction. Combining user satisfaction with WildPackets’ accurate response time analysis provides an unrivaled new level of application analysis. A new Apdex dashboard provides a high-level view of the quality of service that applications are delivering to end users. Apdex, an industry standard developed by the Apdex Alliance (www.apdex.org), provides a single metric that represents the level of satisfaction users are experiencing with applications. When the dashboard reports a low score, engineers can use the OmniPeek Product Family to drill down for Expert analysis, graphical reports, and the packets themselves to uncover the root cause of the problem.

The Application view allows you to link end-user satisfaction with the performance of a network application through Apdex.

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Application View	Apdex Visual

Top-Down View

OmniPeek provides a high-level view of network traffic using its comprehensive Dashboard view. Dashboards display important data that every network engineer needs to know about the network without spending lots of time analyzing the captured data.

With OmniPeek, you can also drill down and see which nodes your top talkers are talking to. Click again and see what protocols and sub protocols are in use. IT staff of all levels of technical ability, or even executives can view this information instantly, anywhere on the network.

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Dashboard View

Wireless Analysis

OmniPeek provides in-depth analysis of Wireless Traffic using its comprehensive Wireless-specific expert diagnoses and decodes, high-level wireless-specific dashboard view, signal strength analysis, etc. In addition to 802.11a/b/g support, OmniPeek now support 802.11n capture and analysis.

The Network Policy Violation Detection allows the user to create, edit, save and reload named descriptions of a particular network-its participants and their expected behavior-for the Expert to use in detecting Network Policy violation events.

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Wireless-specific Dashboard	Wireless Statistics View	Signal Strength View

Visual Expert

Visual Expert includes a wealth of accessible tools to perform detailed analysis of conversation flows. These include the Packet Visualizer which shows the interactive requests and responses between the client and the server, payload reconstruction which can show the contents of the flow, a wide range of new conversation-oriented graphs including tcptrace. The visual expert also contains a "What If" view estimating the effects of changes in various network and application parameters on the network performance and a Compare view that assists in detecting communication issues within flows when viewed from different points on the network.

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Graphs	Payload	Compare
PacketVisualizer	Summary	What If

Real-Time Expert Analysis

OmniPeek displays Expert System diagnoses by conversation pair, so you can instantly identify where problems are occurring on the network. Other companies’ analyzers hide this information, listing their alarms by OSI layer.

The Expert EventFinder in OmniPeek provides descriptions and possible causes and remedies for each of the problem conditions the Expert identifies.

The Network Policy Violation Detection allows the user to create, edit, save and reload named descriptions of a particular network-its participants and their expected behavior-for the Expert to use in detecting Network Policy violation events.

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Expert	EventFinder	Network Policy

Expert Mapping

The OmniPeek Expert Peer Map shows all communicating nodes within your network and is drawn as a vertically-oriented ellipse, able to grow to the size necessary. Reading the Peer Map is easy; the thicker the line between nodes, the greater the traffic; the bigger the dot, the more traffic through that node. The number of nodes displayed can also be limited to the busiest and/or active nodes, or to any OmniPeek filters that may be in use.

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Expert Mapping

On-the-Fly Filters

You shouldn’t have to stop your analysis to change what you’re looking at it. OmniPeek enables you to create filters and apply them immediately. WildPackets’ “select related” feature selects the packets relevant to a particular node, protocol, conversation, or expert diagnosis, with a simple right click of the mouse. Features like this significantly reduce time needed to find and fix problems. Similar operations often take a dozen or more steps in other analyzers.

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Real-Time Filtering

Global Real-Time Troubleshooting

Through the OmniPeek interface, OmniPeek extends real-time troubleshooting to network segments around the world, delivering expert network analysis, detailed node, protocol, and network summary statistics, and even packet decoding, on multiple segments, by multiple users, in real time. From one console, a network engineer can cost-effectively troubleshoot locally or connect to OmniEngine Expert analysis or other applications running on OmniEngines down the hall, across the country, or across the planet.

Network Coverage

With Ethernet and Wireless capabilities, you can now effectively monitor and troubleshoot services running on your entire network.  Using the same solution for troubleshooting wired and wireless networks reduces the total cost of ownership, including training expenses.