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The latest version of a wireless LAN analyzer from AirMagnet announced Monday, allows remote scanning over any LAN or Internet connection and can run on a Centrino-equipped laptop without a separate Wi-Fi card.

AirMagnet Laptop Analyzer is software that roving network administrators and installers can load on a notebook PC and use to study activity on an enterprise wireless LAN. Among other things, it can detect radio wave interference and security violations, said Rich Mironov, vice president of marketing at AirMagnet. It uses Wi-Fi client hardware on the notebook in a listen-only mode to look at packets crossing the network and run more than 130 diagnostics.

Earlier versions of the software have only been certified to run on selected PC Card Wi-Fi clients from third parties, but Version 6.0 can run on an Intel Centrino Wi-Fi chip set. That means enterprises that already have a Centrino-equipped notebook don't have to buy a PC Card just for scanning the network, but it also facilitates the other major feature of the new software, Mironov said. That feature allows a user in one office to run Laptop Analyzer while another user, such as a more experienced network administrator, runs the application at another site and watches the results in real time from across any LAN or wide-area connection. While the laptop analyzer runs on the Centrino chip set, a Wi-Fi PC Card can keep the roving notebook online via a wireless LAN, he said.
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