MarQuest customer Humberside Police Force, which has over 60 sites, 1,700 Personal Computers (and other machines) and 3, 500 users to support, is using OmniPeek to support the Force’s wired and wireless networks. The product is used to guarantee the functionality, security and performance of its IT services for the frontline policing of Humberside and the other areas under its jurisdiction.

Humberside Police has a reputation for leading the adoption of new technology to help fight crime and improve policing efficiency in the UK, so its choice of OmniPeek is a validation of the real time packet analysis and ‘edge to core’ forensic monitoring that the solution brings to network managers and helpdesk professionals.

Mike Foster, Data Network Systems and Security Manager, at Humberside Police, said: We started using OmniPeek due to its competitive pricing, ease of use and functionality. We simply put the product on to a laptop and use it anywhere it in our network and various sites for instant analysis of network performance and security. So successful has been our use of OmniPeek that when we started planning the development of new wireless services, we decided make use of OmniPeek to guarantee the security and performance of these new services that will support our frontline policing services.

Omnipeek offers both expert diagnostics and frame decoding in real time. OmniPeek has been carefully designed to help IT Professionals analyze and diagnose increasingly diverse volumes of network data, providing precise, contemporary analysis of the problems facing today's networks.

OmniPeek's expert wireless LAN analyzer provides network engineers with the expert diagnostics needed to deploy, secure, and troubleshoot wireless LANs. OmniPeek covers the full spectrum of wireless LAN management requirements, including site surveys, security assessments, client troubleshooting, WLAN monitoring, remote WLAN analysis, and application layer protocol analysis. Designed to accelerate the troubleshooting of WLAN-specific problems, OmniPeek features powerful problem detection heuristics and 802.11-specific diagnostic capabilities.