WildPackets OmniPeek Enterprise - Enhanced Voice Option v5

WildPackets OmniPeek Enterprise with Enhanced Voice Option 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 Voice Option.

New Things in Omni v5:

1. Support for 802.11n
   OmniPeek with 802.11n enhancements is capable of capturing, decoding, analyzing and displaying all 802.11n traffic. It works with many commercially available 802.11n wireless adapters to capture traffic, including management and data frames. It decodes all 11n-specific informa-tion, whether that information is in SISO beacons (beacons that any 802.11 AP or client can receive) or 11n-specific packets. OmniPeek detects and reports the presence of 802.11n APs and their capabilities, and compiles the results from all captured and decoded packets into detailed statistics and expert analyses. Displayed data follows the user-friendly and award-winning WildPackets UI elements, significantly reducing the learning curve of analyzing 802.11n traffic.
   
   
2. Omni Virtual Network Service
   A new addition to the OmniAnalysis Platform, the Omni Virtual Network Service is a lightweight traffic-capture service that enables IT engineers to capture and analyze the 'invisible traffic' on virtual servers. 'Invisible traffic' is traffic on virtual servers which never crosses a physical network segment where it can be captured. Omni Virtual Network Service helps organizations troubleshoot and optimize the network environment on these servers to ensure the proper functionality in data centers and server farms.
   
   
3. Next-Generation Network Forensics
   OmniAnalysis 5 also includes WildPackets next-generation network forensics capabilities for capturing and analyzing historical network traffic. WildPackets network forensics solutions, typically featuring an Omni pliance network recorder, can be used for performing retrospective analysis on network traffic for network trouble-shooting, application performance benchmarking, security attack analysis, HR and policy compliance investigations, and transaction analysis.
   The value of WildPackets' network forensics capabilities is in its ability to capture, search and gather the actual traffic for analysis using the same environment as real time troubleshooting. OmniAnalysis 5 adds the ability to replay applications including web pages, email traffic, IM, and VoIP call playback so investigators can see what users are doing. New memory management and UI enhancements make data queries even faster, more efficient, and more precise.
   
   
4. Instant Visibility
   In an effort to further expose network conditions with enhanced visibility, WildPackets introduces a number of new displays within OmniAnalysis 5 - the new OmniPeek Dashboard and new wireless and Apdex displays.
   
   
5. Improved Media Support
   To deploy and maintain a successful Voice over IP (VoIP) implementation, you need to be able to analyze and troubleshoot voice traffic and the network the voice traffic is running on. You need to be able to understand how other applications are affecting voice traffic - and vice versa.
   In OmniAnalysis 5, the Enhanced Media Option now has its media analysis fully integrated with the expert network heuristics which allows for the support of simultaneous media analysis and network infrastructure analysis. The Enhanced Media Option allows for the detailed analysis of both the signaling (call set-up) and the payload (the actual voice or video) as well as the ability for VoIP call playback.
   
   
6. 10GbE
   With OmniAnalysis 5, WildPackets also introduces new 10 Gigabit hardware. Leveraging this specialized hardware, engineers can effectively use OmniAnalysis to capture and analyze traffic from 10 Gigabit segments.
   
   
   • Real-time VoIP Media Analysis:
     The VoIP 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 VoIP Media analytics to verify call quality using R-Factor and MOS Score measurements.
     
     
   • Real-time Application Analysis:
     The Omni Expert collects network traffic into conversations. OmniPeek is able to aggregate these conversations by application and rate user satisfaction.
     
     
   • 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.
     
     
   • 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.
     
     
   • 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.
     
     
   • Wireless Network Security - WPA/PSK Support:
     In addition to WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy) support, OmniPeek allows users to specify the WPA (Wi-Fi Protected Access) pre-shared key set for their network now. This means that OmniPeek will decode and decrypt an encrypted packet with your user-defined WPA keys, allowing application layer analysis.
     
     
   • 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.
     
     
   • Global Real-Time Troubleshooting:
     Through the OmniPeek interface, OmniAnalysis 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.
     
     
   • Enhanced Voice Option:
     WildPackets Enhanced Voice Option – provides users with the visibility and analysis they need in order to keep VoIP applications and non-voice applications running optimally on the network. Through the Enhanced Voice Option, users gain access to a wealth of detailed call quality statistics, graphical representations of the voice traffic and detailed diagnostic information. Specific signaling and call playback capabilities complete the enhanced VoIP analysis capabilities.

Features and Benefits:

• Real-Time Troubleshooting & VoIP Call Summary:
  OmniPeek Enterprise with Enhanced Voice Option is the only network analyzer offering Ethernet, Wireless, Gigabit, WAN, and VoIP diagnostics in real-time. The Expert view provides in-depth analysis of latency, throughput, and numerous network problems in a conversation-centered display. Many of the test elements have user-defined settings and thresholds, allowing you to fine-tune the Expert System to suit your network environment.
  
  
• VoIP Signaling Analysis:
  OmniPeek Enterprise with Enhanced Voice Option supports multiple VoIP signaling protocols including SIP, H.323, MGCP, Megaco, SCCP (Skinny v3.0.3), NCS, TGCP, SIPT, C-SIP and more. OmniPeek Enterprise with Enhanced Voice Option associates all the signaling (including RTCP status reports) and voice streams (RTP) on a per call basis and provides a flow of the signaling messages and endpoints that participate in the call. This includes measuring call setup durations and providing a Call Detail Record (CDR) for each call.
  
  
• Media Plane Analysis:
  The media plane analysis looks at the packet-level details of RTP and RTCP streams, and evaluates packet inter-arrival time, variation, packet loss, jitter and other parameters. Further, OmniPeek Enterprise with Enhanced Voice Option identifies packets that cause problems like duplicate packets and out of sequence packets. OmniPeek Enterprise with Enhanced Voice Option also provides non-intrusive voice quality monitoring by evaluating Mean Opinion Score (passive MOS) in real-time (based on the ITU standard).
  
  
• VoIP Reports and Network Statistics:
  OmniPeek Enterprise with Enhanced Voice Option aggregates statistics and measurements of all active sessions to give a complete picture of the VoIP network status. OmniPeek Enterprise with Enhanced Voice Option provides the number of opened calls per signaling type, number of opened media channels and the network throughput of the RTP, RTCP and signaling links. It also reports statistics on jitter, packet loss, and bandwidth.
  
  
• Subjective VoIP Quality - Variable Jitter Buffer Playback:
  In addition to objective VoIP measurements, OmniPeek Enterprise with Enhanced Voice Option enables users to evaluate voice quality subjectively by using the call playback feature. This feature also allows users to vary the size of the jitter buffer. For instance, when capturing VoIP close to the listener, one can determine if a lower jitter buffer and thus lower delay in delivering voice to the handset, still delivers an acceptable level of quality.
  
  
• Passive MOS, R-Factor, and RTD Measurements:
  OmniPeek Enterprise with Enhanced Voice Option provides voice quality measurement over live calls for Passive MOS, R-Factor, and RTD.