SCIENCE

CACE Technologies has announced that it has shipped major new releases of the Pilot Console and Shark Appliance software – key components of the Shark Distributed Monitoring System (SDMS) product family. In addition, CACE released significant updates to their CACE Pilot and WiFi Pilot network visualization, analysis, charting, and reporting tools, including support for MPLS and new 802.11-centric Views.

“Shark Appliance interest is growing exponentially as more IT professionals have the chance to do the research and discover that our capture and analysis platform outperforms any other system in its class for about one-third the price,” states Loris Degioanni, CACE Technologies CTO. “Our aim is to continually increase our understanding of the requirements of network engineers, network architects, et al, and add those features to our products that offer the most immediate value for them. Version 2.4 represents a major engineering effort and the third significant release of our tools this year alone. We want to insure that our customers are not just satisfied with their initial investment in our technology, but that the technology keeps up with their requirements and continues to add value and to ease their workload over time.”

According to Gerald Combs, Director of Open Source Projects for CACE and Founder of the Ethereal/Wireshark open source project, “Symbiotic advances are being made in the Pilot tool and Wireshark to optimize the paired use of the products, and to address many of the gaps in Wireshark functionality that the community has been aware of for years but has not had the resources to address. Access to very large pcap packet traces, professionally-rendered reports, immediate, graphical representations of network traffic, distributed analysis and, perhaps, most of all, commercially-available support, has made Pilot and the Shark Appliance very popular products for Wireshark loyalists at all levels.”

Key v2.4 Release Product Enhancements

Shark Appliance and Shark Appliance Kit

• safs2file Command Line Tool, allowing creation of pcap files from a capture job
• Export Capture Job Packets from the Shark Appliance through a Web Browser
• Support for MPLS
• Support for video (H.264) dynamic payload types for H.323 calls
• Support for SIP and H.323, H.225, H.245 fragmented messages on TCP
• Support for dynamic RTP payload for SIP calls.
• Support for codec changes inside RTP streams.
• Support for IEEE 802.1ad (a.k.a. Q-in-Q).
• Support for IEEE 802.1ah (a.k.a. MAC-in-MAC)
• Log File Rotation and Compression

Pilot Console/CACE Pilot

• Log File Rotation and Compression
• "Run Program" Watch action now sends event values to the target program or script.
• New Pilot Views:
  • Talkers and Conversations\VoIP\VoIP Conversations by User
  • Talkers and Conversations\IP\Subnets\Top 8 Subnets
  • Talkers and Conversations\IP\Subnets\Top 16 Subnets
  • Talkers and Conversations\IP\Subnets\8 Subnet Conversations
  • Talkers and Conversations\IP\Subnets\16 Subnet Conversations
  • Talkers and Conversations\Top Ports
  • Talkers and Conversations\Top Source Ports
  • Talkers and Conversations\Top Destination Ports
  • Performance and Errors\VoIP\Voip Failed Conversations by IP
  • Performance and Errors\VoIP\Voip Failed Conversations by Users
  • Performance and Errors\VoIP\SIP Messages Distribution
  • Performance and Errors\TCP\Server-side TCP performance\Service Response Time by Protocol
  • Performance and Errors\TCP\Server-side TCP performance\Server-side Round Trip Time by Protocol
  • LAN and Network\MPLS\Top MPLS Labels
  • LAN and Network\MPLS\Top MPLS Traffic Classes
  • LAN and Network\MPLS\MPLS vs Non-MPLS Traffic
  • LAN and Network\MPLS\Bandwidth over time by MPLS Label
  • LAN and Network\MPLS\Bandwidth over time by Traffic Class

WiFi Pilot

New WiFi Pilot Views:

• 802.11\Traffic Analysis\Auth/Deauth Over Time
• 802.11\Traffic Analysis\Auth/Deauth Conversations
• 802.11\Roaming\Roams Over Time
• 802.11\Roaming\Avg/Min/Max Roaming Time Over Time
• 802.11\Errors and Retransmissions\Failed Associations\Authentications