The
Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company Uses WildPackets’ Omni³
For the world’s largest tire
company, staying number one means continually creating the
best tires for a wide variety of applications, from
passenger and racing cars to construction machinery and jet
aircraft. Like any industry leader, Goodyear has
increasingly relied on its computer network and data center
infrastructure to streamline research, development, and
production.
In the spring of 2004, Goodyear’s IT management launched
an effort to consolidate the number of products it used, and
network analysis products were part of that effort.
WildPackets was on a short list of products evaluated as a
way to consolidate multiple analyses, monitoring, and
troubleshooting functions under one platform.
After testing over the summer, the
RD&E team deployed WildPackets’ OmniPeek console and
Peek DNX distributed analysis engines for Ethernet and
wireless networks, and RMONGrabber to relay RMON information
to the OmniPeek console. The remote engines perform analysis
locally while forwarding information on demand from the
OmniPeek console, which is where the user evaluates
analytical results during troubleshooting.
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Baxter Regional
Medical Center
Baxter
Regional delivers healthcare services to residents in the
Twin Lakes region of Arkansas.
As a not-for-profit corporation,
Baxter Regional’s strategy relies on improving process
efficiencies with more automation and with optimal network
infrastructure. Maintaining optimal performance on the
network to meet varying service level demands, and migrating
new applications and upgrading existing ones, impose
complexity.
Baxter Regional Medical Center’s
network encompasses 750+ nodes spanning multiple buildings
with switched 10/100 segments joined to an operations center
via fiber-based Gigabit Ethernet lines.
Baxter Regional selected WildPackets’
Omni3 distributed solution to maintain network Performance
and deliver services efficiently.
Real-time visibility to remote
segments provides faster problem identification and
resolution. The immediate benefit is increased network
uptime, which allows Baxter Regional to provide more
services to its customers - reliably and efficiently.
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Davita
DaVita is a healthcare services organization that
provides kidney dialysis services to nearly 47,000 patients
in 33 states. Using a mix of Frame Relay, ISDN, and
DSL-based VPN connections, DaVita’s network links an
application hosting center in Washington and a network
management center in California with some 5,000 PC users at
542 sites across the United States.
In the past, DaVita’s IT team used Sniffer™ DSS to
troubleshoot WAN traffic problems, and it used WildPackets’
EtherPeek NX - driven remotely with Microsoft NetMeeting or
PC Anywhere - to view problems with application performance,
printing, or server time-outs on individual LANs. But the
process was far from seamless.
Omni³'s ability to support multiple captures and
multiple simultaneous users eliminated the problem. In
addition, the team can now use OmniPeek and Peek DNX to
begin remote captures without having to set up a NetMeeting
or PC Anywhere session. Another benefit of the OmniPeek
console is that it can be used to analyze local as well as
remote segments.
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