Cace Technologies AirPcap Wireless Capture Adapters manual The AirPcap Product Family

The AirPcap Product Family

The AirPcap offerings are the first open, affordable and easy-to-deploy packet capture solution for Windows. All of the AirPcap offerings will capture full 802.11 data, management, and control frames that can be viewed in Wireshark thereby providing in-depth protocol dissection and analysis capabilities. Below we provide a feature matrix that gives a high- level overview of the feature sets of the adapters in the AirPcap Product Family.

More detailed information regarding each the member of the AirPcap

Product Family can be found on the CACE Technologies Website

http://www.cacetech.com/.

	AirPcap	AirPcap Tx	AirPcap Ex	AirPcap N
	Classic
Captures Full 802.11 Frames	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Fully Integrated with Wireshark	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Open API	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Multi-Channel Monitoring	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
(with 2 or more adapters)
Packet Transmission	No	Yes	Yes	No
External Antenna Connector	No	No	Yes	No
Form Factors	USB Dongle	USB Dongle	USB Dongle	1
				Cardbus (32 bits)
Frequency Bands	2.4GHz (b/g)	2.4GHz (b/g)	2.4 and 5GHz	2.4 and 5GHz
			(a/b/g)	(a/b/g/n)

Table 1. Feature Comparison for the AirPcap Product Family

1Other form factors available by special order are: mini-PCI and mini-PCI Express

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