Wireless

Wireless Solutions from WildPackets

Whether by design or by default, every company has a wireless network. Just about every laptop purchased today has built-in Wi-Fi capability, and every time one of these laptops accesses your network, even your wired network, you have created a default wireless network. Unless you understand, control and manage this network, you are creating serious vulnerabilities that threaten network security.

In many more cases, wireless networks are in place by design. Whether for the simple convenience of guest access, or for mission-critical network services, constant analysis of the wireless network is required to maintain user satisfaction and to keep your network safe. As more and more companies begin using wireless as a primary medium for data services, including VoIP and video, a network analysis solution that can provide Expert analysis for both wired and wireless segments, simultaneously, is the only viable solution.

With OmniPeek, WildPackets continues to address this need head-on. WildPackets has a complete offering to address wireless network analysis, from the wireless network edge all the way to the data center. OmniPeek addresses the need for portable, simultaneous analysis of wired and wireless network segments, including full support for analysis of 802.11n Draft 2.0 wireless equipment and for remote analysis of both wired and wireless segments, using WildPackets OmniEngine products.

Products

OmniPeek Enterprise

OmniPeek Enterprise is WildPackets’ flagship product. It combines all of the features of the OmniPeek product line in one product, including support for local captures from multiple interfaces and connections to an unlimited number of OmniEngines. It also supports data collection from any network topology, including Gigabit networks, WAN links and local matrix switches. OmniPeek Enterprise is ideal for IT organizations responsible for network analysis and network services SLAs for the entire organization. A license of OmniPeek Enterprise should be considered for each location that will be supported by a network engineering professional. OmniPeek Enterprise also supports the Enhanced Media Option.

OmniPeek Enterprise product page

OmniEngine Enterprise

OmniEngine Enterprise extends the network analysis capabilities to remote locations, performing data capture and network analysis on multiple network interfaces, and over all network topologies, including wireless (802.11), Gigabit networks and WAN links. This product is best deployed in workgroups or at remote locations, providing continuous network monitoring and analysis without the need for local network engineering support. To completely cover your network analysis needs, one or more OmniEngines should be deployed at each remote location, with every server farm, and within the network operations core.

OmniEngine Enterprise product page

OmniPeek Basic

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 highspeed (Gigabit or WAN) links and a limited number of employees on the network. OmniPeek Basic can collect network data from a single interface, or can be used with up to 2 OmniEngines (OmniEngine Workgroup) to form a distributed network analysis solution spanning a larger, or multi-location, office.

OmniPeek Basic product page

WildPackets Forums

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White Papers

WildPackets Guide to Wireless LAN Analysis

Events

Training

WP-202 Advanced Wireless LAN Assessment and Analysis, is a three-day, hands-on training course focused on troubleshooting wireless networks. This course dives deeper into wireless protocol analysis, particularly a more thorough understanding of wireless management, security, TCP/IP and related protocol variants, both benevolent and nefarious. It builds on the troubleshooting concepts in WP-101 to include long-term statistics gathering, monitoring, and general wireless network health. In-class activities are a bit more advanced, often combining concepts in more complex scenarios for students to decipher. Successful graduates from this class will be ready to immediately apply skills in real-world environments.

To learn when this course will next be offered in a location near you, please visit our Course Schedule page:

http://www.wildpackets.com/services/academy/overview

Links

News Sites

Wi-Fi Planet (news, tutorials, and product reviews related to Wi-Fi technology and business)
http://www.wi-fiplanet.com/

Jim Geier’s Wireless-Nets, Ltd. Site, which includes an Online WLAN Guide (registration required)
http://www.wireless-nets.com/learning_center.htm

SearchMobileNetworking.com (news, glossary, tutorials, and related information about mobile computing)
http://searchmobilecomputing.techtarget.com/

Unstrung (news, Webinars, and message boards about the Wi-Fi industry)
http://www.unstrung.com

WirelessWeek (news and discussions about the Wi-Fi industry)
http://www.wirelessweek.com

Technical References

Summary of IEEE 802.11 standards.
http://www.ieee.org/portal/index.jsp

SearchMobileNetworking.com’s 802.xx Fast Reference
http://searchmobilecomputing.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid40_gci992311,00.html

WLANA Learning Center (white papers, tutorials, and case studies about wireless networking)
http://www.wlana.org/learning_center.html

NetworkWorldFusion’s Wireless/Mobile Research Center
http://www.nwfusion.com/topics/wireless.html

Full Text of DoD Directive 8100.2 regarding WLANs
http://www.dtic.mil/whs/directives/corres/pdf/d81002_041404/d81002p.pdf

WildPackets and the WLAN Industry

Partners

WildPackets has partnered with leading technology providers in the WLAN marketplace, including Aruba, Cisco, and Cognio. To learn more about our WLAN partners, please visit our Alliances page.

Other Industry Affiliations

Agilent Technologies & Wi-Fi Alliance (WFA) - Interoperability Certification Labs (ICL) http://www.wi-fi.org The Wi-Fi Alliance is an industry consortium focused on increasing the global adoption of Wi-Fi (IEEE 802.11) solutions. The WFA recognized that a key enabler of faster adoption for a new technology is the interoperability of equipment from different manufacturers. Agilent Technologies, under contract from the WFA, was tasked to create and operate several Interoperability Certification Labs around the world. To meet its objective, the ICL established a standard test bed that would be used in all labs. WildPackets’ AiroPeek product was an integral part of this test bed, and has been instrumental to the certification of all products that bear the Wi-Fi Alliance logo.