Network Associates’ Sniffer Portable Wireless PDA
Network Associates has announced the latest version of its Sniffer products — Sniffer Portable Wireless PDA that currently runs on the Compaq iPAQ.

For corporate IT departments, the Wireless PDA option offers a balance of the most essential wireless security and network management features for collection and analysis of traffic on wireless networks. Network technicians can immediately perform initial data collection, analysis, and resolution of security and availability issues such as rogue access points and radio frequency interference.

The company said the Sniffer Portable Wireless PDA allows network professionals to efficiently and effectively architect, develop and manage a secure and reliable 802.11b-based wireless environment while remaining cost-effective.

Agere Systems’ Wireless LAN Manager
Agere Systems said its network management product Wireless LAN Manager is ideal for monitoring and managing an entire wireless LAN infrastructure consisting of hundreds or even thousands of access points spread out over multiple facilities.

With Wireless LAN Manager, IT technicians can recognize problems before they are reported. It allows technicians to control, update and configure an entire network from a single user interface.

Agere’s network management solution can easily be integrated with HP OpenView, the mainstream management platform for wired networks. When used with OpenView, the Wireless LAN Manager provides a topographical view of the entire wireless network and can provide graphical monitoring of real-time data from selected devices. IT managers can see the entire network and view all devices on the same subnet by Auto Discovery or by IP addresses.

According to Larry Gallagher, manager of data communications at Cambridge Mellon University, "We have over 600 access points on our network and using the Wireless LAN Manager has been a huge benefit."

For more information: http://www.sniffer.com       http://www.agere.com