The airpcap product family – Cace Technologies AirPcap Wireless Capture Adapters User Manual
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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
Classic
AirPcap Tx
AirPcap Ex
AirPcap N
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
(with 2 or more adapters)
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Packet Transmission
No
Yes
Yes
No
External Antenna Connector
No
No
Yes
No
Form Factors
USB Dongle
USB Dongle
USB Dongle
Cardbus (32 bits)
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Frequency Bands
2.4GHz (b/g)
2.4GHz (b/g)
2.4 and 5GHz
(a/b/g)
2.4 and 5GHz
(a/b/g/n)
Table 1. Feature Comparison for the AirPcap Product Family
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Other form factors available by special order are: mini-PCI and mini-PCI Express