The Wi-Fi Range vs. Rate Expansion for CDRouter simplifies Wi-Fi performance validation for Wi-Fi gateways and APs, allowing developers and QA teams to perform critical Range vs. Rate (RvR) testing with integrated, automated programmable attenuators - all within the CDRouter ecosystem.
Read moreCS Personal is taking a break. Give us your feedback on what you loved most and will miss.
Read moreWe are recognizing one of our first customers, Sercomm Corporation, on 20 years of partnership using CDRouter automated testing, delivering the highest quality broadband CPE and Wi-Fi products to the industry.
Read moreWhat a year it has been for the networking world! As we close out 2024 and the snow starts to fall here in Dover, New Hampshire, here is a special message from our CEO, Erica Johnson
Read moreCloudShark 4.0 is here, and it’s packed with exciting upgrades that make packet analysis smoother, more powerful, and more user-friendly. With the introduction of Packet Viewer as the new UI foundation, CloudShark is taking your packet analysis experience to the next level. Here are some of the standout features you’ll want to check out:
Read moreOur busiest time of the year is upon us, with standards and tradeshow events, our last big releases, and more. Here’s a bit about what we’ve done as we get ready for the last months of the year!
Read moreThe year’s premier broadband networking events - prpl Global Summit 2024 and Network X 2024 - are only 3 weeks away! Our QA Cafe team will be in Paris during the week of October 7th, speaking on important topics and helping operators, developers, and product leaders understand the ins and outs of the latest technologies. Here’s a quick overview of where you’ll find us - and who will be talking about CDRouter.
Read moreOur fast pace hasn’t changed in the last few months, with the launch of our new product, Packet Viewer, and our continued focus on testing the next generation of advanced broadband gateways and Wi-Fi devices. Read on to see what’s been going on at QA Cafe!
Read moreQA Cafe has officially launched Packet Viewer, a strategic enhancement for vendors of cloud-managed network and cybersecurity solutions. Built from the power behind CloudShark, Packet Viewer brings a modern, web-based interface offering in-depth PCAP exploration without ever leaving the security of an existing application.
Read moreThe NTA3000 is the most advanced CDRouter platform to date, featuring fully automated Wi-Fi 7 testing and high-performance throughput capabilities.
Read moreDevelopers can now gain comprehensive feature and performance test coverage of their RDK-B implementations in one framework. Read the news here.
Read moreprpl Foundation has launched its high-level API certification for broadband gateways and Wi-Fi routers implementing prplOS. CDRouter is the official test platform - reach out to learn how to get certified!
Read more“CDRouter is the industry-standard test solution for broadband CPE and Wi-Fi routers, and the ability to drive line-rate 10 Gig traffic will help service providers and device manufacturers truly demonstrate what their products are capable of.”
Read moreThrough our partnership with Amarisoft, hundreds of CDRouter users worldwide can now test features, scalability, and performance of their 5G or LTE fixed wireless gateway products.
Read moreCloudShark 3.10 is here with many new features, including new protocols (DoH/QUIC dissection, WPA3 detection, audio playback for OPUS, etc.), TCP improvements, and support for JA3/s and CommunityID for correlating network traffic across different tools.
Read moreCloudShark and Packet Detectives (DuBois Training & Consulting, LLC) have partnered to create CloudShark Academy, an expert training program for enterprise IT and DevOps teams looking to onboard and provide professional development opportunities for their personnel.
Read moreWe're so happy to be celebrating 20 years at QA Cafe! "Seeing our customers and our employees succeed because of our work is its own reward. Change is constant, and helping people navigate the rapid pace of change in the world of technology is what QA Cafe is all about." - Joe McEachern
Read moreIf you are currently running CloudShark 3.0 through 3.8, it is important for you to upgrade to version 3.9 at your earliest convenience. As of February 1, 2023, CloudShark Enterprise versions 3.0 through 3.8 will be end-of-life (EoL) and no longer maintained, supported, or available for download.
Read moreQA Cafe is proud to be sponsoring SharkFest’22 US! We're sponsoring, and our own Tom Peterson is developing the highly anticipated "esPCAPe" group challenge with Sake Blok. Join us in Kansas City July 9-14!
Read moreQA Cafe’s CTO, Tim Winters, has been named Working Group Chair of prpl Foundation's “Certification Technical Working Group”. The group will leverage CDRouter and open-source automation tools together to enable self-testing as a key element of prplWare certification.
Read moreThe development of routers, APs, and gateways has shifted towards an agile, software-styled process focused on high-frequency and high-volume code building and testing. CDRouter 13.0 supports a new additional license option for those customers who want to maximize their test capability by running multiple tests in parallel.
Read moreA new partnership between QA Cafe and prpl Foundation will expand the performance and security for prplWare based broadband Wi-Fi routers and gateways with enhanced automated testing.
Read moreQA Cafe announces the release of PassPort, a first-of-its-kind, fully automated, and easy-to-use test solution to improve feature and protocol interoperability of IoT and smart home products, ensuring that IoT devices operate as intended before they are deployed.
Read moreThe latest press release from the Broadband Forum announces their new self-testing process for BBF.069 certification, featuring CDRouter as the first approved tool for the program.
Read moreThe Broadband Forum recently released the results of a survey of over one-hundred Communications Service Providers (CSPs) on the future of the connected home.
Read moreWe’re very excited to announce our integration with Mist by Juniper!
Read moreThis seminar includes lessons we learned running honeypots of our own and analyzing network captures of the activity
Read moreQA Cafe, a leading provider of IP test solutions and capture analysis tools for broadband access, home networks, consumer electronics, and service providers, today announced that it has joined the RDK community. Its CDRouter test solution for broadband and Wi-Fi routers and gateways will aid the project with repeatable, automated testing of the RDK-B reference code implementations.
Read moreJason Walls from QA Cafe is joining other industry experts for a special session during the “Connected Home Summit” at the upcoming Broadband World Forum 2020 Virtual Event. QA Cafe will moderate and participate in the panel, “Deploying Real User Services in the Connected Home” with Nokia, Verizon, BT, F-Secure, and Domos.
Read moreCloudShark has always been owned and operated by QA Cafe, and today we’re taking the first steps to align all our amazing network products under one umbrella.
Read moreCloudShark, a web-based packet analysis platform, provides valuable network insights faster with Zeek logs
Read morePortsmouth, N.H., June 18, 2020 (via PRNewswire) – QA Cafe, a leading provider of IP test solutions and capture analysis tools for broadband access, home networks, consumer electronics, and service providers, today announced the release of the CDRouter add-on for Apple HomeKit. CDRouter is a robust suite of automated tests designed to successfully pre-test and accelerate time to market for HomeKit-enabled routers.
Read moreCloudShark Enterprise, a secure packet analysis and management platform designed for increasing team efficiency, is now integrated with Palo Alto Networks Cortex XSOAR
Read moreWi-Fi 6 testing support in CDRouter is available now
PORTSMOUTH, N.H., March 26, 2020 /PRNewswire/ – QA Cafe, a leading provider of IP test solutions and capture analysis tools for broadband access, home networks, consumer electronics and service providers, today announced the release of the CDRouter Security test add-on.
Read moreSuccessful home and office networks are mandatory to keep our world moving forward. Network quality and network security are the two most important factors you should be focusing on in your devices. Unfortunately, cybercriminals are targeting home/SOHO gateways and Wi-Fi APs.
Read moreHere at CloudShark we know that as an IT or network security professional, you are on the front lines when it comes to maintaining this critical infrastructure.
Read moreAs TR-069 has evolved into TR-369, or the User Services Platform, QA Cafe has been on the cutting edge, helping to test early implementations at plugfests and early versions of the open-source OB-USP-Agent.
Read moreCloudShark 3.7 brings this idea to its next evolution with profile management.
Read moreWe’re pleased to welcome BreldoItalia Engineering Wireless to the family of CloudShark integrators!
Read moreWatch the Connected Home panel discussion at BBWF and videos of the demo
We’ve released CDRouter 11.6, with some transformative changes to how you can analyze packet captures in your test results, the addition of lw4o6 to our growing list of supported IPv6 transition mechanisms, and support for MQTT transport when testing USP/TR-369.
Read moreCollaborative analysis that focuses on simplicity and speed is the new standard for how network and security professionals work these days.
Read moreContinues to help network device manufacturers, service providers, and MSOs deliver high quality products with its industry standard CDRouter test platform
CDRouter 11.5 is here, featuring the industry’s first fully-automated feature, scalability, and performance testing over WPA3 links, plus a whole lot more. You can read the full release notes to see it all!
This year, our own Sr. Technology Specialist Tom Peterson will be speaking at SharkFest US 2019
Read moreCounterFlow AI, the first security provider to deliver true intelligent packet capture capabilities, today announced their partnership with CloudShark to integrate the technology into CounterFlow AI’s solutions
Read moreDoes your device support TR-069 HTTP bulk data collection for analytics applications? Have you had a detailed look at your device’s behavior in logs generated by CDRouter’s firewall tests? Does your device lock down responses to DHCP requests to the correct ports?
Read moreCDRouter 11.3 contains new features for devices implementing parental control services or captive portals, looking for out-of-the-box test cases, or migrating to TR-069 Amendment 6. You can read the full release notes to see everything we’ve added.
Read moreThe team at Profitap are the leading developers of network visibility tools and network test access points (TAPs).
Read moreCDRouter 11.2 adds powerful new functionality to make testing enterprise gateways, cloud-dependent routers, and the latest standardized Wi-Fi APs more comprehensive than ever before. You can read the full release notes to see everything we’ve added.
We’re happy to announce our move to CloudShark.io!
Read moreCloudShark, operated by QA Cafe, partner with Profitap on a joint solution aimed at advancing the way IT professionals keep networks operational and secure
Read moreQA Cafe, a leading provider of IP test solutions and capture analysis tools for broadband access, home networks, consumer electronics and service providers, today announced the release of a suite of easy to run security tests.
Read moreWith our new security test package, MAP-E, WiFi packet capture and improved packet capture viewer, CDRouter 11.1 is an important upgrade for CDRouter users. Most of our improvements come from our customers, so never hesitate to contact us with your feature requests!
Read moreQA Cafe, a leading provider of IP test solutions and capture analysis tools for broadband access, home networks, consumer electronics and service providers, today announced the release of the CDRouter USP test add-on.
Read moreIn this release we’re happy to announce the release of our new add-on for testing the Broadband Forum’s User Services Platform (USP). That plus some major updates for handling Wi-Fi APs and IPv6 VPNs makes this a major release for CDRouter.
This release has several major feature updates including both new tests and enhancements to CDRouter’s complete automation platform.
This release has some amazing new tests and features for TR-069 testing, IPv6, and Wireless WAN.
Read moreWe’ve brought huge leaps in CDRouter’s wireless test capability, some critical tests for ARP vulnerabilities, and more:
It’s the beginning of Winter here, and that means the devs are hard at work building new features into CloudShark to prevent themselves from freezing.
Read moreWe’re happy to announce a great partnership with Velocimetrics, which has integrated CloudShark Enterprise into their financial/trade data network visibility solution.
Read moreThis is a capture with multiple hosts in it, and something “bad” has happened to one of them. How would we figure which one it was and what happened?
Read moreCDRouter 10.4 is now available!
With some major features and upgrades to performance, TR-069, and more, it’s a great time to upgrade your CDRouter system.
Sharkfest 2017 was fun. Zach and Tom made an appearance on behalf of CloudShark!
Read moreCDRouter 10.3 is now available! We recently teased the release of CDRouter DOCSIS, and 10.3 contains that plus much more.
Read moreCyber attacks today are bigger, faster, and happening more frequently than ever.
Read moreNew in CloudShark 3.0, DeepSearch lets you get more out of your capture archive by finding packets that match standard Wireshark filters.
Read moreCloudShark 2.7 introduces a powerful new way to look at packets.
Read moreAfter spending some time in deep meditation, the CloudShark team is ready to bring you CloudShark 2.6.0.
Read moreYes, it’s only been two months, but we had so many great ideas percolating (Yes, percolating. Like coffee.)
Read moreWe’ve had our noses to the grindstone for quite some time, but we’re happy to announce that CloudShark 2.4 is here!
Read moreThis is a powerful feature for power users, recently, an OpenWrt package was developed that adds QA Cafe CloudShark capture and upload capability.
Read moreThis packet challenge has concluded! Read on for the solution, or check out the original challenge for more information.
Read moreThis capture challenge has concluded! Thank you for all of your answers! You can find the solution here, or try the challenge for yourself.
Read moreThe developers over at Kismet Wireless just released a packet capture app for Android devices!
Read moreThis challenge is now concluded! Click to read the solution or to check out the original challenge!
Read moreQA Cafe, a leader in test and analysis solutions for the telecom and data communications industry, has had its flagship CDRouter test platform selected by the University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory (UNH-IOL) for the performance of the Broadband Forum’s BBF.069 Certification program announced this week.
Read moreThis challenge is now finished! Read the solution below or scroll down to try the challenge for yourself!
Read moreThanks to all who participated in the packet capture challenge at Sharkfest 2012! We had a great time at Sharkfest! Here’s the solution, or scroll down to try the challenge yourself!
Read moreThis challenge is over! You can find the solution below. First off, thanks to everyone who sent in a solution. The solution is posted here, or try the challenge yourself below!
Read moreHaven’t got one of our snazzy CloudShark P-Caps yet? Well, how good are your dissector skills?
Read moreThis challenge is over for now. You can find the solution below! Try the challenge yourself below!
Read moreWatch Joe show you the solution from a cafe in downtown Portsmouth, NH, or try the challenge for yourself below!
Read morePortsmouth, NH, USA - QA Cafe, a leader in test and analysis solutions for the telecom and data communications industry, announced that version 7.0 of its popular CDRouter platform has incorporated Nmap, the premier open-source network security scanner.
Read moreHere’s a look at what has been going on in Spring 2024! Wi-Fi 7, the NTA3000, analyzing a threat, and more.
Read moreQA Cafe is a proud RDK member, and even more proud to say that CDRouter is used by the RDK development team. In this innovation spotlight video from RDK Central, learn from CTO Tim Winters how this relationship works and how you can use CDRouter along with the published RDK CDRouter results to qualify your own implementations.
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