There are a lot of different tools available to network administrators to capture network packets for analysis. Actually making sense of those packets and visualizing what they mean is often another task altogether.
In an effort to help navigate network packets, Wild Packets is debuting a new tool called Compass Live to provide real-time analysis capabilities. The Compass Live solution can pull in packet captures from one of Wild Packets own Omnipeak devices or by way the open source Wireshark application.
“What’s interesting with Compass is that it’s basically meant as a high level graphical display of network traffic files,” Tony Barbagallo, vice president of marketing at WildPackets told InternetNews.com. “From those trace files, I can visually see the protocols from multiple end points in a single graph.”