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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/

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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