Ubisys IEEE 802.15.4 usb stic with wireshark firmware, Reference Manual

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3. Features
- Turns your ubisys IEEE 802.15.4 stick into a powerful
used and actively maintained open-source network protocol analyzer software available to date
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Covers all channels in the 2.4 GHz band, i.e. channels 11-26 as specified in the IEEE 802.15.4
standard. Notice that one device is capable of capturing data on one channel at a time. Simultaneous
multiple-channel capture is supported by using a number of ubisys IEEE 802.15.4 devices, each
operating on a different channel. Diversity capture is supported by using more than one ubisys IEEE
802.15.4 stick on the same channel.
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have to search for the channel the network is currently using. This is a must-have to observe frequency
hopping systems like WirelessHART and useful for debugging frequency-agile systems like ZigBee PRO
and ZigBee RF4CE
- On-board MCU: Advanced 32-bit ARM micro-controller running at 48MHz with 64KB SRAM powerful
enough to capture and buffer up to 128 packets (each comprising up to 127 bytes) until they are
delivered to the host computer. Makes you not lose any packet due to buffer overruns, interrupt latencies
or USB bus latencies in contrast to
products based on slow 8-/16-bit controllers with
limited RAM (typically 8KB)
- On-board PHY: Texas Instruments CC2520
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On-board meandered inverted-F antenna
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USB 2.0 full-speed device, bus-powered. Power consumption: 50mA in active mode. Thus, can be
plugged into any USB port, even into passive hub ports, such as those integrated into keyboards
- Complies with Microsoft® RNDIS specification and is compatible with standard, pre-installed Windows
drivers. Appears as a network adapter in device manager
- Creates ZigBee Encapsulation Protocol Version 2.0 Frames (ZEPv2), which can be immediately
-in dissectors. Includes channel information, link quality indication (LQI),
received signal strength indication (RSSI) and a sequence counter
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Wireshark dissectors include: ZigBee, ZigBee PRO, ZigBee Green Power, 6lowpan. Wireshark can be
extended with dissectors, including dissectors for your own proprietary protocols based on the IEEE
802.15.4 MAC
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Supports on-the-fly decryption of encrypted ZigBee network traffic (APS and NWK security)
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Exploit the networking capabilities of Wireshark to gather the data captured by a remote machine
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Create capture files and send them to colleagues, who can review the capture logs in Wireshark
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More convenient than Ethernet-based capture devices when used with mobile notebook computers etc.
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Extensible and future-proof design: Firmware updates via USB
- Supported on 32- and 64-