Wireless Technologies
As with many emerging IT technologies, the proliferation of wireless brings new administrative challenges:

   • You should complete site surveys before deploying access points (APs) or locating stations.
   • After installation, you'll need to maintain accessibility and monitor signal strength for legitimate users, while keeping unauthorized users and rogue
     APs off the network.
   • As the number and types of wireless stations grows, tracking long-term trends helps prevent wireless bottlenecks and channel interference problems. 

Network Instruments helps you to resolve these administrative headaches by integrating wireless support throughout its entire line of Observer protocol analyzers: Observer, Expert Observer, and Observer Suite, as well as our hardware Gigabit and WAN Observer products. We offer analyzers that meet every need and budget, and they all support both wired and wireless analysis.

Observer's flexible and powerful analysis tools installed on a wireless PC will let you:

   • Capture and decode wireless and wired traffic on your network.
   • Monitor the health and security of your wireless LAN with several wireless-specific features, such as access point statistics, signal strength
     and quality, Wireless CRC errors, rogue access points, and unauthorized adhoc traffic, to name a few.
   • Setup automatic notifications that will email or page you if errors exceed a configurable threshold, or if a rogue access point is detected.
   • Unlike other protocol analyzers, Observer lets you switch between protocol analysis and standard wireless network operation without having to
     install separate drivers.
   • Save different wireless network setups in re-usable profiles, allowing you to use the analyzer at different sites with different A/P SSIDs and WEP keys.

For a more detailed look at what Network Instruments' Wireless Observer can do you can:

   • Visit the Wireless Observer Product Highlights page.
   • Download an evaluation of Observer. You do not need a wireless card to run the simulation demo.
   • To get the most out of the demo, you might want to refer to the Wireless Observer Evaluator's Guide as you run the simulation demo.
   • Download the PDF of the Observer Wireless Brochure
   • See the product detail page for each of the products that support wireless operation:

-Observer
-Expert Observer
-Observer Suite