July 02, 2009

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AirMagnet WiFi Analyzer (Formerly Laptop Analyzer)

AirMagnet WiFi Analyzer is the industry's most valuable and complete solution for managing Wi-Fi networks. AirMagnet WiFi Analyzer provides full visibility into the performance and security of the wireless environment while vastly simplifying troubleshooting in the field with automated analysis of all Wi-Fi traffic and conversations, wireless channels/devices and the RF spectrum along with expert advice and guided problem resolution in plain English. Although compact, AirMagnet WiFi Analyzer has many of the feature-rich qualities of a dedicated, policy-driven wireless LAN monitoring system.

AirMagnet WiFi Analyzer is Available in Two Versions (View Comparison Chart)

WiFi Analyzer Express: The Express version provides the core building blocks of WiFi troubleshooting and auditing with the ability to see devices, automatically identify common problems and physically locate specific devices.

WiFi Analyzer PRO: The PRO version significantly extends all the capabilities found in Express and adds many more to provide a WiFi tool to solve virtually any type of performance, security or reporting challenge in the field. AirMagnet WiFi Analyzer PRO includes all of the most powerful, industry-defining features including 11n tools, intrusion detection, professional reporting, compliance reporting, extended channel scanning and interference analysis.

AirMagnet WiFi Analyzer provides an inventory of all 802.11a, 11b, 11g and 11n devices operating in the wireless environment. It provides detailed information on the configuration settings that are available or are in use on the devices, including critical parameters such as signal strength, noise, SSID, security settings in use, associated devices, cell power, device activity status, and many more.

Additional Features Available in AirMagnet WiFi Analyzer PRO
Along with monitoring every 802.11a/b/g/n device operating in the Wi-Fi environment, AirMagnet WiFi Analyzer PRO users can additionally monitor the 4.9 GHz US Public Safety Band, commonly used by public service agencies and municipal networks. AirMagnet WiFi Analyzer includes a library of the most common Wi-Fi tasks and challenges faced by users and not only walks them through steps to solve and remediate those problems, but also educates them on the issues, thus empowering the IT staff to be productive and efficient. AirWISE® is an encyclopedia source for understanding the threats and performance issues at work in the Wi-Fi environment.

Additional Features Available in AirMagnet WiFi Analyzer PRO
AirMagnet WiFi Analyzer PRO's Learning Assistant provides explanations in plain, straightforward language the key technologies behind the 802.11n standard to help them understand technologies required to optimize their 802.11n infrastructure for maximum throughput and reliability. AirMagnet WiFi Analyzer automatically identifies and physically helps locate unauthorized devices operating in the Wi-Fi environment that may pose a risk to the overall security of the network. It also performs a continuous vulnerability assessment of the network to detect subtle weaknesses that are often overlooked, such as devices sending unencrypted data, identifying mis-configured clients and a host of potentially damaging security configurations.

Additional Features Available in AirMagnet WiFi Analyzer PRO
The PRO version of AirMagnet WiFi Analyzer additionally detects sophisticated attacks launched against the corporate wireless network, that are aimed at disrupting the wireless services. This includes RF Jamming attacks, association and encryption-based Denial of Service attacks, wireless disconnection attacks, and many more. It also detects penetration attempts against the wireless infrastructure, including dictionary attacks, fake access points, WEP cracking tools, man in the middle attacks, etc. AirMagnet users can troubleshoot common wireless network connection problems with tools such as DHCP, ping, traceroute and whois that are built into the AirMagnet application. Using these tools users can confirm associations with the access point, test the IP subnet connectivity and detect network breakages.

Additional Features Available in AirMagnet WiFi Analyzer PRO
In addition to solving network connectivity problems, AirMagnet WiFi Analyzer PRO includes a suite of active troubleshooting tools to quickly pinpoint a variety of wireless network problems. This includes common complaints of users not being able to connect to the network, users experiencing slower connections, 802.11n mis-configurations, traffic/infrastructure overloads, hardware failures, roaming problems, multipath issues and many more. WiFi Analyzer shows real-time packet flows for any Wi-Fi asset and decodes the most popular protocols such as FTP, HTTP, SMTP, POP, and Telnet. It also includes advanced filtering options for drilling down on particular conversations based on IP address or port number. Available in AirMagnet WiFi Analyzer PRO only
AirMagnet WiFi Analyzer includes an 802.11n Performance Toolkit, a first-of-a-kind feature set that lets users quickly see how best to deploy 11n technology and maximize the real-world performance of the network. Available in AirMagnet WiFi Analyzer PRO only
Interference can stem from a variety of sources including competition from other Wi-Fi devices, so-called "hidden nodes" in the network, and even non-802.11 wireless devices. AirMagnet WiFi Analyzer's Interference page tracks all these components of interference and uses simple color coded symbols to display their impact on the network performance for every channel in the RF spectrum.

PRO users can also integrate with the AirMagnet Spectrum Analyzer* and Cisco Spectrum Expert* to obtain RF spectrum energy plots for even deeper Layer 1 analysis and identify non-802.11 devices that are interfering with the Wi-Fi network.

* AirMagnet Spectrum Analyzer and Cisco Spectrum Expert must be purchased separately and installed on the same machine as WiFi Analyzer PRO.

Available in AirMagnet WiFi Analyzer PRO only
AirMagnet WiFi Analyzer offers an integrated reporting tool that enables users to turn Wi-Fi analysis information into professional customized reports. Users can choose from a library of pre-built reports or generate custom reports by selecting specific items of interest from the user interface, such as RF statistics, channel reports, device reports, or security and performance issue reports.

AirMagnet provides detailed compliance reports for a variety of regulatory standards including Sarbanes-Oxley, Basel II, EU-CRD (Cad 3), ISO 27001, FISMA, HIPAA, PCI-DSS, DoD 8100.2, and GLBA. Reports provide a step-by-step pass/fail assessment of each section of the standard, enabling users to complete work in a fraction of the time.

The installation and operation of AirMagnet WiFi Analyzer (software-only) requires separate hardware with one of the following minimum system requirements below.