New Fast Lane training course for network experts: “Optimising Network Performance with Wireshark (OPNW)”

The course provides participants with extensive knowledge on how to avoid configuration and design errors that would slow down a network’s performance. The Fast Lane instructor then goes on to explain how performance complications can be contained and isolated, using an example featuring a complex, meshed network and multi-level client-server applications. The course attendees then put the theoretical knowledge gained into practice in illustrative, practical exercises involving the determination of latency times in stretches of network and active components. They also learn how to accurately calculate throughput and response times using Wireshark and Microsoft Excel, as well as how to present such information in suitable diagrams.

An overview of the course content:

• Determination of response times (from the point of view of the user) using a network trace
• Measuring network latency times
• Tracking TCP connections via NAT/PAT gateways
• The effect of proxy servers and load balancers on response times
• The causes of excessive retransmissions and their impact on performance
• Analysing multi-level client-server applications
• Tracking client requests to database servers via http connections
• Identifying network bandwidth bottlenecks using trace files
• Analysing standard protocols (e.g. SMB or database protocol) to identify application problems using trace files
• Optimising routing protocols for redundant networks

Price: €2,490 plus VAT