AirMagnet upgrades laptop WLAN analyzer

Photo of author

Tim Higgins

Version 7.0 can share session-data with AirMagnet’s Spectrum Analyzer to perform Layer 1 (RF) analysis, making it easier to pinpoint specific sources of non-802.11 interference. It also supports Intel’s PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Wireless Network Connector as well as other current WLAN adapters.

AirMagnet said that Laptop Analyzer 7.0 is also the first WLAN analyzer to support virtual access points (APs), or multiple BSSes per AP and the only analyzer to support the 4.9 GHz public safety band.

Other features include alarms to identify the presence of pre-802.11n devices, support for all 200 802.11a channels, 802.11d and 802.11h. The analyzer decodes 802.11d/h traffic and displays specific 802.11d/h information for every AP implementing the protocols.

Laptop Analyzer 7.0 PRO is available now priced at $3,995 (U.S.). A standard version of the product with a condensed feature set is also available for $3,495. Upgrades to 7.0 are available at no additional cost for customers with current support contracts.

Related posts

Update: CSIRO shuts down Buffalo WLAN shipments

Updated 6/21/07

Last Friday, a federal court in Texas granted Australia's national science agency, CSIRO, an injunction to prevent infringement of its wireless network patent by Buffalo-group companies in the US. The injunction prevents the sales of all wireless LAN products by Buffalo until a license for CSIRO technology is negotiated.

CSIRO had begun a test case against the Buffalo companies in February 2005 in Texas, after the industry had failed to accept CSIRO’s offers to license its wireless local area network (WLAN) patents on reasonable and nondiscriminatory (RAND) terms.

D-Link ships dual-band draft 11n gaming router

D-Link said today it has started shipping its DGL-4500 Draft 802.11n Xtreme N Gaming Router.

The router combines a single dual-band Draft 2.0 802.11n radio based on Atheros XSPAN technology with D-Link's "GameFuel" technology—D-Link's branding of Ubicom's "StreamEngine" auto-QoS technology.

Newbury Networks unveils infrastructure-agnostic WLAN location appliance

Newbury Networks today introduced what it says is the industry’s first "infrastructure-agnostic" wireless location appliance. The Newbury Location Appliance provides accurate and precise location tracking for thousands of devices over a wireless LAN and enables a host of mobile enterprise applications such as asset tracking, network provisioning, voice and security.