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Capsa is the name for a family of packet analyzer developed by Colasoft for network administrators to monitor, troubleshoot and analysis wired & wireless networks. Currently, there are four editions available: Capsa Enterprise Edition, Capsa WiFi, Capsa Professional Edition, and Capsa Free Edition.
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Capsa Enterprise Edition is the flagship of Colasoft Capsa packet analyzer family, it supports both Ethernet and wireless networks.It performances real-time packet capturing and analysis as well as supporting past-events analysis. It is a very useful tool for enterprise network administrator to help them deal with daily network work, various kinds of network problem and maintain a productive enterprise network.
Capsa WiFi is a WiFi wireless network analyzer developed by Colasoft for 802.11 a/b/g/n wireless network monitoring, analyzing and troubleshooting. Based on the Network Driver Interface Specification (NDIS) 6.0 library, the company states that almost all wireless cards supported by Windows Vista and Windows 7 will work with Capsa WiFi, no special wireless network adapter is required.
Capsa Professional Edition is a Ethernet packet analyzer designed for networking professionals or small business network administrators. It is an easy-to-use and cost-effective network tool for network monitoring, troubleshooting and analyzing purposes.
Capsa Free Edition is a freeware Ethernet packet analyzer designed by Colasoft for personal use. It is useful as a tool for network geeks to learn protocols, packets, and other networking related knowledge, and it is free of charge for personal or family users' network monitoring or troubleshooting needs. Anyone can download Capsa Free Edition at Colasoft website for any legal noncommercial use.
| Feature | Description | Enterprise Edition | WiFi | Professional Edition | Free Edition |
| Network Type | Ethernet | 1000 Mbps | 1000 Mbps | 1000 Mbps | |
| WLAN | Yes | Yes | |||
| Multiple Adapters | Capture packets from multiple wired adapters | Yes | Yes | ||
| Local IP addresses | The limit of LAN IP addresses can be analyzed | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited | 50 |
| Project | Running simultaneously | 4 | 4 | 4 | 1 |
| TAP | Capture traffic from a TAP | Yes | Yes | ||
| Replay Speed | Normal speed and Fast speed | Both | Both | Both | Both |
| Report | Customize and output Report in HTML/PDF/MHT | Yes | Yes | ||
| Diagnosis | Diagnosis tab for auto-diagnosed problems | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| Security Analysis Profile | Enhanced security analysis modules | Yes | |||
| Operating Systems | Windows XP | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| Windows Server 2003 | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
| Windows Server 2008 | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
| Windows Vista | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| Windows 7 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |