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It seems like I am going to bring my wireless packet analysis to a whole other level – “Packet Analysis 2.0″, if you will. Two of my favorite wireless capture and analysis tools have recently been updated – OmniPeek Professional and Wireshark.

I have been at meetings at our company HQ (Xirrus) most of this week, so I haven’t had a lot of hands-on time with either updated tool.

OmniPeek Professional has just been updated to version 6.0.1, as of April 3rd. It seems to offer much more flexibility of viewing multiple data windows through mechanisms similar to tabbed browsing.

I also downloaded a few plug-ins for OmniPeek Professional, including the multichannel aggregator – once I acquire one more USB 802.11n dual-band adapters, I will try to write a blog post documenting my experiences with the aggregation feature.

The new version of Wireshark seems to focus on a lot of bug fixes, although it includes an experimental package for Mac OS X 10.5.5 and above. Version 1.0.7 of Wireshark was announced April 8th. On the Wireshark front, I am attending Sharkfest this June, which I am pretty excited about.

Now that I am thinking about wireless product upgrades, I realized that AirMagnet also came out with an updated version to their Site Surveyor product about six weeks ago (version 6.1_13206)

So many product updates, so little time…

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• 802.11n Deployment Considerations – Troubleshooting & Analysis Tools 
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