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Wireshark: an Open-Source Packet Capture Tool

Wireshark is one of the most popular network packet analyzers available. It has been embraced by network admins worldwide and has become one of the essential network troubleshooting tools for IT teams. Read on to learn more about Wireshark, how to use it, and some relevant cases and alternatives. We will mainly focus on how you can use this tool to maintain a robust network within your organization.

Tame the Internet with DX NetOps 22.2 Network Monitoring Software

DX NetOps 22.2 optimizes network operations with industry-leading visibility, scale and modern network coverage beyond the network edge to quickly and easily isolate end-user experience impact of network performance issues. Recent research revealed that 67% of companies cite internet and cloud network paths as monitoring blind spots. Furthermore, 71% of companies say that adoption of new network technologies is delayed by inadequate network monitoring software.

RESOLVE '22: The SOC and the NOC

In our RESOLVE ’22 event The SOC and the NOC, moderator and 3 Tree Tech VP of Cybersecurity Kris Taylor welcomed two esteemed guests to the stage: As Kris noted at the top of the event, we brought our panelists together to talk about “the culture of the network operating center (NOC) and security operations center (SOC).” Along the way, they discussed different philosophical and practical takes on the high-level topics of networking and security.

Introducing OpUtils' IP Request tool

Are multiple IT operators accessing, utilizing, or managing your network address space? If so, then you might have noticed that one of the time-consuming network management tasks you are undertaking regularly, is allocating IP addresses to the IT operators. This is an inevitable task since, as your network scales with new physical components or technology implementations, your operators require new IPs to enable network connectivity.

Welcome To The Experience-Driven NOC: Track Network Path Deviation From Normal Performance

On your journey to the Experience-Driven NOC, we illustrate the importance of tracking deviation from normal network path performance behavior. This DX NetOps capability provides operations even more clarity into network performance impact on user experiences with focused triage on what matters vs performance blips that do not require immediate attention.

Welcome to the Experience-Driven NOC: Network Path Performance Metrics

On your journey to the Experience-Driven NOC, we make it easy to view and modify the network path metrics collected by AppNeta inside the DX NetOps portal for your Experience-Driven NOC. Metrics like percentiles and projections provide even more observability like capacity planning besides many other insights and can be used in dashboards and reports.

Welcome to the Experience-Driven NOC: Network Path Change Alarms and Drill Down Context Pages

On your journey to the Experience-Driven NOC, DX NetOps 22,2 is enabling network operations centers to utilize their standard operating procedures and workflows to triage the performance of the entire network path of any user experience - over managed or unmanaged networks. As with any workflow, we start with an alarm and enable operations to drill down, in-context to the offending network device; giving operators enhanced visibility into network path performance along with key KPIs for focused troubleshooting on any and all user experience impact. For more info, visit broadcom.com/netops

Welcome to the Experience-Driven NOC: Configure DX NetOps to Collect AppNeta Experience Metrics

On your journey to the Experience-Driven NOC, in this video we show you how to configure the DX NetOps gateway to connect to your AppNeta instance with all the relevant information needed to consume experience metrics into the NetOps portal. For more info, visit broadcom.com/netops