WinPcap Professional is intended for organizations that produce widely-deployed commercial software products that take advantage of the WinPcap (Windows Packet Capture) functionality. CACE Technologies' proprietary dynamic functionality enables WinPcap Professional to be included in your application as a Dynamic Link Library (DLL). The DLL provides all of the WinPcap functionality without any explicit installation. Contrast this with the Open Source version that requires an explicit installation of WinPcap including the Windows driver and associated DLLs. The benefits of WinPcap Professional include the following.
Bundles WinPcap functionality with an application.
As a Windows DLL, WinPcap Professional seamlessly and transparently integrates WinPcap functionality with your application. Consequently, your users are not aware of the installation of a third-party package with your application.
Costs less than doing it yourself.
Creating a DLL with the functionality of WinPcap Professional is a challenging engineering task that will take a talented engineer several months to recreate. Because WinPcap operates at a low level within the Windows networking stack, re-implementing the functionality will require a highly skilled specialist. By purchasing WinPcap Professional you avoid doing that work yourself and free up your engineers to work on the other tasks.
The WinPcap Professional unique name space avoids collisions with existing or future versions of Open Source WinPcap.
If the explicit installation of Open Source WinPcap is not a consideration, then the obvious alternative is to use Open Source WinPcap with your application. For many applications this may be the best choice. For widely-deployed commercial software, however, there is a risk that the end user will install a version of the Open Source WinPcap incompatible with your application. With millions of Open Source WinPcap installations annually, this risk is considerable and growing. WinPcap Professional gives your application a unique name space for the library, preventing any future versioning issues. Increased customer satisfaction and decreased customer support issues are added benefits.
Provides access to experts in a difficult field.
Although Open Source software produces some of the best code anywhere, it does so at its own pace. With Open Source projects, you will eventually resolve your issue, but in the meanwhile, you risk losing your customers' confidence. The support from CACE Technologies that comes with your purchase of WinPcap Professional means that problems will be examined and solved quickly, so you can offer a resolution to your customer in a timely fashion. Because engineers at CACE Technologies manage the Open Source WinPcap project, they are in a position to make any necessary changes.
Assures immediate response to technical issues and rapid bug-fix releases.
Open Source software produces some of the best code anywhere, but it does so on its schedule and not yours. With Open Source projects you may get your issue resolved, but lose your customer because it took too long. The support from CACE Technologies that accompanies WinPcap Professional means that any problems will be looked at in timely fashion, so that a resolution can be delivered quickly for your customer.
Offers flexible licensing terms.
CACE Technologies is willing to negotiate the terms of the WinPcap Professional software license agreement with your legal department. Some organizations prefer to place the licensed code in escrow, or only license the complete source code. We will work with you to construct licensing terms for WinPcap Professional that meet your business needs.
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