

(Editors' Note: Ekahau is owned by j2 Global, the parent company of Ziff Media Group, the publisher of .) It’s not for small businesses or wireless neophytes, but IT professionals that deal with medium or large wireless networks daily will also find it invaluable.

After getting hands-on with the solution, we found that its most popular audience will likely be IT consultants specializing in wireless networking. We asked the company to let us test its Ekahau Pro platform, which consists of high-end wireless design and management software along with a hardware spectrum analyzer, called the Sidekick. To see what such a tool is all about, we contacted a sister company that's also a leader in this space, Ekahau. If you’ve made a significant investment in your wireless infrastructure, then protecting that investment with a professional-grade wireless scanner is a worthwhile move. But often, these are just wireless packet analyzers based on low-cost or even open-source platforms. Companies running important workloads over their wireless networks will always have some kind of wireless scanner in their network monitoring toolbox.
