Here is an email from my good friend Mike and his classes.

 

From: Mike Pennacchi [mailto:mike@nps-llc.com]
Sent: 2009, Monday, October 12 5:44 PM
To: Tony Fortunato
Subject: NPS Network Analysis and Troubleshooting Newsletter - October 2009

We have put together a 3 day course on analyzing and optimizing networks using the Wireshark Protocol Analyzer.  This class will be offered December 7th-9th in Tukwila, WA, just south of Seattle.  This class is intended for anyone that has been working with Ethernet, Switches, IP, and TCP and now wants to be able to dig in deeper and fix problems as well as make things run faster.  The class will be offered elsewhere in the US starting next year.  Information about this class and how to register can be found on our training page at: http://new.networkprotocolspecialists.com/training.  We are offering this class onsite as well, should you want to train a group of people at your location.

NPS is now delivering the Fluke Networks Certified Cable Test Technician course in North America.  This of a one day class on how to use the DTX-1800 CableAnalyzer to certify copper cabling and another day on the certification of fiber optic cable.  Both of these classes have a test at the end.  By taking the course and passing the test, you can receive 7 BiSCi continuing education credits.  These classes are being offered publicly throughout the United States as well as onsite.  For more information on the CCTT training program, please visit our CCTT website at http://www.cctttrainingcom

We will be presenting our monthly troubleshooting webcast on October 29th at 10am Pacific Time.  As with all of our webcasts, this one will focus on answering attendee questions and providing troubleshooting analysis tips and tricks.  This month we will be spending most of our time analyzing tracefiles.  A number of real life examples will be used to show how to take traffic that has been captured and pick out the problems.  This webcast will be recorded and a link will be available to anyone that registers after the webcast is complete.

 

To register for this webcast please go to: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/921695913

For the last two years NPS has been working with Fluke Networks to deliver a monthly webcast on the OptiView Integrated Network Analyzer.  These webcasts include usage scenarios, tip, tricks, and best practices when it comes to using your OptiView Integrated Network Analyzer to perform network and application troubleshooting.  Recorded versions of these webcasts can be found on the Fluke Networks site at: http://www.flukenetworks.com/pnawebcasts.  On October 20th we will be presenting the webcast "Solving Ten Common Problems Network Techs Encounter." If you have Gold support for the OptiView, you can also join us for a monthly network troubleshooting webcast.  This troubleshooting webcast is a great opportunity to ask questions and see how to analyze traffic with Protocol Expert.

Chris Greer, our senior network analyst has been busy writing articles and posting them on LoveMyTool. Three of his more current articles are:

Mapping Jacks to Switch Ports - http://www.lovemytool.com/blog/2009/08/chris_greer_7.html< BR>Auto-Negotiation Ending the Debate - http://www.lovemytool.com/blog/2009/09/chris_greer_9.html< BR>Managing Wireshark Columns - http://www.lovemytool.com/blog/2009/10/chris_greer_10.html

Uta LeBeuf recently joined us here at Network Protocol Specialists, LLC as our operations manager.  For those of you that took classes from me when I was at Pine Mountain Group, you may remember Uta from our Tukwila office.  After being at different companies for the last 6 years, we are again working together.  Uta is responsible for all of our class registrations, coordination of onsite classes, and scheduling onsite troubleshooting engagements.  She can be reached at uta@nps-llc.com.

There have been a number of great discussions out on our LinkedIn group.  This is a great place to ask questions, post tips and tricks, as well as see what other network analysts are up to.  Membership is free and easy.  You can view this group at: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=1116847