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A more specialized analyzer sometimes referred to as an Application Analyzer, breaks out the cause of application performance problems to the network, client or server and can can deliver code thread analysis and predictive analysis.

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As data streams travel back and forth over the network, the sniffer, protocol analyzer or network analyzer captures each packet. Today's analyzer's not only decode packets but can be used to gather statistics, or store the packets for forensic anaylsis. Contact Technical Support for help.		Console Features: Observer Basic Features Expert Observer Observer Suite Gigabit Observer WAN Observer Probes: GigaStor Distributed Probes Specific Technologies: Wireless VoIP Gigabit Application Analysis Network Recorder / Forensics WAN Observer


Observer by Network Instruments has solutions that range from portable analysis and to high capacity monitoring and forensic appliances. Observer supports both Wired and Wireless networks. Expert features have many capabilities found in very specialized tools including application analysis, multi-hop analysis, TCP Stream reconstruction and comprehensive VoIP analysis. Observer Suite adds an SNMP console, RMON device management and Web Reporting tools. GigaStor archives network packet data for network forensics and data mining. This is critical for enterprises that must have a way to audit if they are attacked. In addition, Observer's trending and monitoring functionality helps provide answers to users about performance problems and reporting for proactive network management. Network Instruments offers a complete line of probes that monitor network activity across multiple topologies. Network Instruments hardware probes support LAN, WAN, Gigabit, and 802.11 a/b/g, and have the option to support RMON and HCRMON. Hardware probes report to Observer consoles located anywhere on the network for distributed visibility.
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