Cace Technologies AirPcap Wireless Capture Adapters - Manual (Page 5)

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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