Modern communication systems rely heavily upon microwave, radio, and other electromagnetic frequency bands as a means of providing wireless communication links. Although convenient, wireless communication is susceptible to electromagnetic interference. Solar activity causes both direct interference through electromagnetic radiation as well as indirect interference caused by charged particles interacting with Earth's magnetic field. The Solar Radio Burst Locator (SRBL) is a United States Air Force radio telescope designed to detect and locate solar microwave bursts as they occur on the Sun. By analyzing these events, the Air Force hopes to gain a better understanding of the root causes of solar interference and improve interference forecasts. This thesis presents methods of searching and analyzing events found in the previously unstudied SRBL data archive. A new web-based application aids in the searching and visualization of the data. Comparative analysis is performed amongst data collected by SRBL and several other instruments. This thesis also analyzes events across the time, intensity, and frequency domains. These analysis methods can be used to aid in the detection and understanding of solar events so as to provide improved forecasts of solar-induced electromagnetic interference.

This diploma thesis is focused on network monitoring. The theoretical part describes using of detection and prevention systems, properties of these systems, their components and detection techniques. Next part of the thesis is focused on EndaceProbe analyzer and analytic application EndaceVision. Also web services, programming language WSDL and protocol SOAP are described. The practical part is focused on creating three laboratory exercises for network monitoring and for using EndaceProbe. Components of the exercises are the traffic generator IXIA and Cisco switches with the application of remote switched port analyzer. There are also used web services EndaceProbe, programming language WSDL and SOAP protocol.