Cascade Pilot Personal Edition


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Cascade Pilot Personal Edition is a visually rich and powerful analyzer for wired and wireless networks that revolutionizes the use of Wireshark by providing capabilities not found in the world’s most popular packet and network analysis tool. Fully integrated with Wireshark, Cascade Pilot Personal Edition capitalizes on user’s existing expertise while dramatically increasing efficiency in identifying and diagnosing network problems. With Cascade Pilot Personal Edition, you can:

Cascade Pilot PE offers a rich set of reporting facilities fully integrated with wireshark, enabling you to easily and quickly create professional reports in a variety of formats including Word, Excel, and PDF from on-screen displays. You also can include your own annotations in your reports to tailor them to your customer’s or manager’s needs.

Best Bang for your Buck

Cascade Pilot PE works exclusively with the AirPcap Family of WLAN packet capture adapters under Windows. The AirPcap Family, ranging from an 802.11b/g capture-only adapter to an 802.11a/b/g/n capture and injection adapter with two external MC-Card connectors for optional antennas, are USB-based and capture full 802.11 data, management, and control frames.

Thanks to the integration with AirPcap adapters, Cascade Pilot PE is the only product to offer full multi-channel packet capture from a laptop-based system.

  • Drill-down: Drag and Drop Simplicity
  • Reporting: Fast and Professional
  • Time Control: Long-Term Metrics for Retrospective Analysis
  • Watches: Advanced Trigger and Alerting Mechanism

Views: Flexible Analysis and Visualization Paradigm

Cascade Pilot Personal Edition offers a complete collection of interactive View metrics to meet all of the user’s troubleshooting needs. These include:

  • 802.11 WLAN troubleshooting (Discovery, Bandwidth, Channel Usage, Retransmissions, Signal and Noise)
  • LAN and network troubleshooting (MAC, VLAN, ARP, ICMP, DHCP, and DNS)
  • Bandwidth usage (including MicroBursts, IP, TCP, Web, and VoIP)
  • Talkers and conversations (IP, subnets, countries, TCP, Web, and VoIP)
  • Performance and errors (IP, TCP, Web, VoIP)
  • User activity (Web, VoIP)

Create Rogue AP Alerts

Monitor Retransmissions

Drill Down by Time Segment

Track Frame Types

Analyze Traffic by MAC

Compare Bandwidth per SSID

Requirements

This software requires AirPcap Classic, Tx, Ex or AirPcap Nx.

  • Windows XP SP3, Vista or Windows 7
    (32bit or 64bit)
  • Net 3.5 framework
  • USB 1.1 or 2.0

The software and adapter will run in a virtual PC on Mac.

Cascade PE comes with 1 year of support provided by Riverbed

Hardware

Cascade Pilot PE requires an AirPcap USB adapter for WLAN packet analysis.

Below we provide a feature matrix that gives a high-level overview of the feature sets of the adapters in the AirPcap Product Family.

AirPcap Nx AirPcap Classic
WireShark Integration
Data, Management and Control Frame Capture
Open API
802.11 WEP & WPA Decryption
USB Form Factor
Multiple AirPcap Adapters
802.11b/g
802.11a/n
40 MHz Capture
A-MSDU and A-MPDU
Capture and injection
2 x 2 MIMO

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