WildPackets' Omni is a distributed network analysis platform for optimizing network services and maximizing uptime on enterprise networks. Omni gives network engineers real-time visibility into every part of the network—including Gigabit, 10/100, 802.11 wireless, VoIP, and WAN links to remote offices. Using Omni’s centralized console, distributed engines, and expert analysis, engineers can rapidly troubleshoot faults and fix problems, restoring essential services and maximizing network uptime.

Omni enables network engineers to:

• Accelerate troubleshooting and maximize network uptime across the entire enterprise, including remote offices
• Gain real-time visibility into any part of the network from a central location
• Respond more rapidly and effectively to end user requests
• Eliminate travel to other buildings and campuses
• Ensure that mission-critical applications get the network bandwidth and availability they need
• Increase network performance while decreasing time and expenses for analysis and troubleshooting
• Integrate network troubleshooting with other NOC applications and procedures
• Adapt global troubleshooting capabilities to new processes and applications as the network evolves

The OmniPeek console provides centralized expert analysis for all networks under management. Through OmniPeek’s intuitive user interface, administrators—even junior staff—can analyze faults from multiple network segments, drill down through multiple layers of analysis, and quickly identify faults for correction.

The Omni Management Console gives network engineers centralized control for managing all aspects of their Omni deployments, including software configuration and updates, access controls, and Remote Engine start-up and shut-down. The Console is a Windows software application that can be installed anywhere on a network configured with the Omni distributed fault analysis platform.

Omni Capture Engine captures traffic from one or more network interfaces and supports all the network topologies including 10/100 Ethernet, 802.11 wireless, Gigabit, and WAN. Using Omni Capture Engine to capture traffic and the OmniPeek console to analyze the data and view real-time results, network engineers can rapidly troubleshoot faults-even faults occurring at remote locations. Enterprises that cannot afford to staff each office with a network engineer can use Omni Capture Engine to ensure that every business location receives the network engineering support it needs.

Building on WildPackets’ award-winning EtherPeek NX technology, Peek DNX is an application that performs real-time packet-stream analytics on live network conversations. To accelerate troubleshooting while minimizing bandwidth consumption, Peek DNX performs its analysis locally on the remote engine and transmits only the data requested by the OmniPeek console. All communication between OmniPeek and Peek DNX is encrypted and compressed.

A single Peek DNX engine can perform analysis and monitoring on any combination of the following network types: 10/100 Ethernet, Full-duplex Gigabit, WAN and 802.11 WLAN.

(formally Omni Packet Grabber)

WildPackets' Omni Desktop Engine is a Windows service that runs on desktop computers and captures packets for analysis. Omni Desktop Engine provides network engineers with the visibility into end user computers they need in order to accelerate troubleshooting and to maximize productivity. Packet captures can be initiated by network engineers or Help Desk representatives running the OmniPeek Analysis Console; alternatively, captures can be initiated automatically when specific trigger conditions are met. Once a capture is complete, network engineers can transfer the packets into OmniPeek for analysis. OmniPeek’s wealth of analysis features, including 7-layer decodes and Visual Expert analytics, make it easy to find and fix problems quickly.

The Omnipliance network appliance is a turn-key solution for deploying Peek DNX on an enterprise network. In a standard 3U rack-mountable unit, the Omnipliance provides a powerful Windows platform that runs the Peek DNX engine and supports monitoring and analysis of 10/100, Gigabit, WAN, and WLAN segments. A LCD display on the front panel enables network engineers to configure the Omnipliance without connecting a terminal.