AirMagnet 4.0

[marlof]

http://www.airmagnet.com/products/handheld.htm

AirMagnet Handheld is a solution that offers you an amazing amount of tools to deal with security and performance issues on your Wireless LAN right from your WLAN enabled Pocket PC. New in version 4.0 are among others additional security and performance alarms, tools for troubleshooting Voice over WLAN (!) and expanded authentication support. This solution can do so much that it would be pretty hard to sum it all up in this post. If you're interested (and if your a network administrator, you really should be), check out the product tour and the datasheet in .PDF format. AirMagnet is only sold through specific resellers for a price starting at $2,995 for the handheld version.

[marlof]

http://www.airmagnet.com/products/handheld.htm

AirMagnet Handheld is a solution that offers you an amazing amount of tools to deal with security and performance issues on your Wireless LAN right from your WLAN enabled Pocket PC. New in version 4.0 are among others additional security and performance alarms, tools for troubleshooting Voice over WLAN (!) and expanded authentication support. This solution can do so much that it would be pretty hard to sum it all up in this post. If you're interested (and if your a network administrator, you really should be), check out the product tour and the datasheet in .PDF format. AirMagnet is only sold through specific resellers for a price starting at $2,995 for the handheld version.

[christak]

...for a price starting at $2,995 for the handheld version...

I guess they only need to sell a couple of copies at that price...
:lol:

[mar2k]

$2995.00 for a Pocket PC application? No offense, but I would think most network administrators would be using an ultralight laptop for this kind of thing. It does look pretty cool though... :mrgreen:

[Kati Compton]

Um... is that a typo? 8O 8O 8O

[marlof]

Originally Posted by Kati Compton

Um... is that a typo? 8O 8O 8O

Ummm..... no. From the linked press release:
AirMagnet Laptop Trio starts at $3,495, and AirMagnet Handheld 4.0 at $2,995. All products are available immediately. And they do add that the Pocket PC and wireless card aren't included.

[corphack]

but I would think most network administrators would be using an ultralight laptop for this kind of thing.

They also have a laptop / tablet pc version (I have 4 on-order) and the PDA version only does 802.11b whereas the other versions do 802.11a/b/g

[surur]

Im sure the open source version will soon come along to destroy thier business plan.

Surur

[david291]

Mission critical business software is always expensive. Our Pocket PC software is $1500 for the first license, $500 for each additional license at the same site. We get two to five site orders per week.

[christak]

Originally Posted by david291

Mission critical business software ....

Is this mission critical? Maybe I'm missing something (certainly possible), but I find this price way out of line for the capability the software provides...

$3k for a single license would be a "very" hard sell in my organization...

[corphack]

Is this mission critical?

depends upon your organization; in a fortune 10 company with 200K+ employees worldwide (such as my current employer) the inability to detect unauthorized access points is considered a lapse in security, and an audit issue.

also depends upon your overall security plan: alone the airmagnet software provides limited utility, but it well compliments a centralized detection strategy as the terminal component of a larger system (which is how we use them). The centrally connected sensors detect the presence of the rogue AP, and the AirMagnet systems are then used to sniff them out.

The costs also cover support, R&D, bondng, sourcecode escrow, etc. components which our corporate legal policies require of any outside agency in order to be able to do business with us.

At $3K/ license, individual non-commercial users are not AirMagnet's target market.