Omnipeek is a Preferred Wireshark Alternative

Omnipeek Advantage

• Intuitive, best-in-class graphic displays and visualizations
• Actionable visual charts and graphs for easy analysis

Wireshark Limited

• Arguably clumsy, outdated visuals
• List of packets
• A challenging workflows between devices and applications

Wireshark Alternative Reason #2 – Omnipeek Provides Arguably Superior WiFi Analysis

Omnipeek Advantage

• Easy WiFi troubleshooting with easy to interpret interface, charts and graphs.
• The Omnipeek WiFi adapter is a USB-connected WLAN device designed for wireless packet capture. The 802.11ac adapter supports 802.11ac capture up to 2 transmit/receive streams (866Mbps wireless traffic) and supports 20MHz, 40MHz, and 80MHz channel operation

Wireshark Limited

• WiFi analysis limited to outdated display and adapters

Wireshark Alternative Reason #3 – Omnipeek Provides Arguably Superior Voice and Video Analysis

Omnipeek Advantage

• Easy, clicks-away VoIP and video troubleshooting
• Monitor and troubleshoot voice and video over IP traffic in real-time with high-level multi-media summary statistics, call playback, and comprehensive signaling and media analyses
• Tight integrations with LiveCapture, high-speed packet capture

Wireshark Limited

• Limited VoIP and video analysis
• Limited high-speed packet capture

Wireshark Alternative Reason #4 – Omnipeek Supports Modern Packet Capture Capabilities

Omnipeek Advantage

• Modern USB WLAN adapters (WiFi) AND local interfaces
• Modern aggregator adapter
• Packet captures from wireless access points
• Optional high-speed capture with LiveCapture Appliance

Wireshark Limited

• Packet capture typically limited to local interfaces on laptops or other devices
• Outdated USB WLAN adapters (WiFi)
• Limited to low-bandwidth, short-time periods

Wireshark Alternative Reason #5 – Omnipeek Designed for Scale

Omnipeek Advantage

• Decode over 1000 protocols
• Designed for Scale
  – 1/10/40/100G network interfaces
  – Wireless
  – VoIP
• All analysis is done in a single application – Omnipeek
• Build to analyze massive file sizes – 4 GB+

Wireshark Limited

• Limited visualizations and analytics
• Limited packet file size analysis
• Limited to low-bandwidth, short-time periods

Wireshark Alternative Reason #6 – Omnipeek Provides Flexible Options with 24×7 Access

Omnipeek Advantage

• Flexible access for all users – Windows or web
• Access data on LiveCapture appliances anywhere, anytime and from any platform
• Many options for real-time, high-speed capture of packets with LiveCapture appliances
• Monitor distributed networks remotely. Using LiveCapture with Omnipeek extends network monitoring and visibility for troubleshooting of application-level issues at remote sites and branches, WAN links, and data centers.

Wireshark Limited

• Designed for thick clients
• Designed for discrete sessions
• Not well designed to constantly monitor packet traffic
• Limited distributed network monitoring

Wireshark Alternative Reason #7 – Omnipeek Provides Expert Views for Faster Diagnostics

Omnipeek Advantage

• Built into Omnipeek is an expert system that suggests likely root cause analysis for hundreds of common network problems.

Wireshark Limited

• No expert system

Wireshark Alternative Reason #8 – Omnipeek Provides Best-in-Breed Workflow

Omnipeek Advantage

• Widely recognized as the best network analysis workflow in the industry, Omnipeek makes it Wireshark Limited · Arguably time-consuming and clumsy workflows easy to drill down, look across, compare, discover, and ultimately reduce mean-time-to-resolution (MTTR)

Wireshark Limited

• Arguably time-consuming and clumsy workflows

Wireshark Alternative Reason #9 – Omnipeek Has Great Support

Omnipeek Advantage

• Ominipeek was created by network professionals who understand you have support needs that sometimes requires conversations
• Omnipeek has support reps available to assist you with the most complex issues

Wireshark Limited

• Good luck talking to a support rep with Wireshark

Wireshark Alternative Reason #10 – Omnipeek is Competitively Priced

Omnipeek Advantage

• Omnipeek is a competitively priced Wireshark alternative given its advantages.
• Buying takes only a few minutes. Get a quote.

Wireshark Limited

• You get what you get with “free”