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New Case Studies
Korea Telecom To monitor, analyze and troubleshoot rapidly increasing traffic to prevent service disruption and facilitate preparations to provide multimedia services.
Continental Automotive Systems To ensure maximum network performance and availability so that information flow, from purchase order to delivery, moves smoothly and efficiently.
International Speedway Corporation To maximize the productivity of the two network engineers tasked with managing the strategic development and day-to-day operations of ISC’s network and, in turn, allow users system-wide to enjoy high network performance.

Financial
Large Midwestern Bank To quickly solve performance problems in key customer-facing applications such as account balances.
Securities Industry Automation Corporation (SIAC) To transform SIAC's network into a distributed, more efficient configuration, leveraging carrier hotels around the country.
Texas Insurance Company To determine if all four remote sites were receiving an equal quality of service from the WAN provider, without attaching any network monitoring devices directly to the third-party provider's network.
De Lage Landen To integrate new technologies, different platforms, and legacy systems across many different sites and countries.
HSBC Bank Brasil The Bank required a more efficient way for troubleshooting and assessing network problems.

Service Provider
Wireless Company To reduce the manpower and time to resolution required to solve numerous mysterious network- and application-performance problems that periodically arise on this large, complex network.
North State Communications To resolve a variety of puzzling network problems that arose through day-to-day operations and network design-problems that impacted network performance and customer satisfaction.
Staffing Solutions Company To verify that customers’ infrastructure was adequately provisioned to receive optimal service levels when using applications.
Kingston Communications To assure that ROI is achieved and maintained while guaranteeing quality and services.

Government & State and Local Government
NORAD To deliver consistently high performance on an extremely mission-critical network.
Chandler, Arizona To quickly solve performance problems in a high-profile registration application that inexplicably disconnected users during peak traffic periods. The performance problems eventually came to the attention of the City Council and the mayor.
State of Indiana To help Indiana's government operate as efficiently and cost effectively as possible by quickly identifying and solving day-to-day operational issues, as well as by providing actionable insight into the network's overall performance and management.

Education
Trinity College To ensure that its students are well equipped to tackle modern information technologies.
South Birmingham College To ensure complete network visibility of every switch, server, and router. They required a trouble-free network in an education environment where there are many users at any one time.
Vanderbilt University To provide the highest levels of network performance and security possible in an extremely open academic computing environment.

Manufacturing
Norbord To allow a one-person team to quickly solve mysterious application performance problems that occurred between Toronto headquarters and remote facilities.
Orbital Sciences To proactively ensure efficient network operations between the two major networks and to provide reactive troubleshooting during satellite and missile development and post flight processing.
Sony Online Entertainment To be able to look at all of the infrastructures for the various games, and know the health of all the devices that are in play for use in serving each of those games.
Semiconductor Company To contain the rapid spread of the Blaster Internet worm, which threatened to disrupt productivity by infecting users' PCs and overloading the company's Internet server with malicious traffic.
IBM To maintaining the efficiencies of customers' networks and ensuring that each business that has selected IBM is getting the most for their IT dollar.

Energy & Transportation
Global Energy Company To gain, for the first time, comprehensive insight into the Gigabit Ethernet environment, to resolve problems more quickly-with a goal of 99.999 percent network availability-as well as monitor multiple VLANs simultaneously.
Spirit Airlines To maintain its competitive edge, Spirit not only built and maintains its own reservation system (including the airline's Web portal), but it also runs its own flight operations center. While this save Spirit millions of dollars in outsourcing costs, it also requires network management tools to keep the company infrastructure operating efficiently.

Healthcare
Healthcare Organization To use the Sniffer Technologies s6040 to quickly troubleshoot problems on the network, using its remote capabilities to speed diagnosis and resolution.
Pharmaceutical Company To manage nearly 100 Sniffer Distributed appliances located around the world in a centralized, efficient fashion.

Other
Diamond.com To achieve maximum network uptime and performance at all times, particularly during peak seasonal sales periods.
The Greenery Needed a cost-effective and easy-to-implement solution to operate over several IT systems.
Global Hospitality Organization To effectively plan and manage a complex global network while maintaining high performance levels on a daily basis.
Syntegra Optimum network performance which is key to business success; difficulties can impact service to customers quickly.
HMS Racing To provide 99.9 percent uptime at its campus network and high performance on location, where each week the challenges change with each race track.
Network General To allow a broad range of IT operations groups to strategically monitor and manage business services, as opposed to their functional components, to help maximize service levels and uptime.