How can I tell which product is best for my needs

• If you have a PLC wire line system choose from our Peryton-PLC portfolio. If you have a wireless environment look at our wire line product line.

If you have a Wireless environment, the following options can be suitable:

• If you do not need capture capabilities, but need to analyze data already captured by others in the field or lab, then the Peryton-V will meet your needs.
• If you need to capture and analyze a single network with a known channel, or if ‘active scan’ or ‘passive scan’ are sufficient to provide channel information, and if you can bear some packet loss due to RF interference, the you can use the Peryton-S. If you are working in the Sub 1 Ghz band (868Mhz, 902-928Mhz) you should use the Peryton-SG which is similar to the Peryton-S except for including an appropriate RF front-end.
• If you need to analyze a single network using a single channel, but want high reliability, or if you work in a tough RF environment, then the Peryton-D is your best choice.
• If you need to analyze a complex environment with multiple networks, or need to make sure a device under test doesn’t transmit out of frequency, or if you don’t want to use active scan to detect the channel chosen by the network, then you need the high-end Peryton-M product.
  Peryton-M4 is best for analyzing RF4CE network with its 3 possible channels while Peryton-M7 is suitable (for example) for analyzing RF4CE in a high interference environment using 3 channels with full diversity.
• If you would like to include some flexibility in your analyzer beyond the already included User Preferences tool, you may want to purchase the Peryton-Scripting Add-On so you can write Scripts and for example create your own customized statistics graphs, incorporate your own icons to devices in the Network view, trigger an e-mail notification or a message through UDP channel on a pre-defined scenario, set a special filtering criteria to copy messages from Time View to Message View an much more.
• If you have your proprietary protocol on top of the 802.15.4 PHY and MAC layers or ZigBee NWL and APS layers, then you need the Peryton-SDK Add-On. Contact Perytons™ for possible customization services.
• If you would like to stimulate your system under test by transmitting your own created messages over the air while in parallel capturing data from the network environment, you may consider adding the Peryton-Traffic-Generator Add-On to your setup.

You may find some brief initial explanation on the different Perytons™ Protocol Analyzer models at the following link. The Perytons™ team will be happy to assist you in finding which of the models best suits your needs. Contact us at sales@perytons.com.

Why aren’t the Perytons™ licenses prices published on the website (I have seen other tools that publish their price over the internet)?

As the professional analysis tool of choice for the 802.15.4 market, we try to make sure that our customers consult with us in order to ensure their analysis requirements are met with the right Perytons™ Protocol Analyzer model. We believe that providing a price list without really making sure that the specific model chosen is understood down to all its features and capabilities might confuse our customers and may result in taking a wrong decision about which analyzer model to buy. Approaching Perytons™ personnel for pricing is promptly and professionally answered while addressing the specific end-user needs.

The system I am analyzing doesn’t use diversity. Do I still benefit by using the diversity option of the Perytons™ analyzer?

802.15.4 networks will rarely use antenna diversity since this increases the system cost and power consumption. Instead, a typical application will use retransmission to compensate for packet loss due to RF interference and multi-path propagation conditions. On the analysis side, however, for best analysis capabilities you want to capture all messages transmitted by the system under test and to minimize packet loss. The Perytons™ Protocol Analyzer use of antenna diversity allows a significant decrease in the number of packets missed from capture by the analyzer due to RF interference. In an indoor environment this improvement may reduce packet loss from 2-5% in a single antenna analyzer down to 0.1%! with the Peryton-D model.

My free evaluation period has expired. What are my options?

The Perytons™ Protocol Analyzer free evaluation period is 30 days. After this period expires, you should purchase a licensed version of the product from Perytons™. Alternatively, you may request an extension of the evaluation period. Such an extension request will typically be approved one time.