Capsa

This article is about the line of network analyzers from Colasoft. For other uses, see Capsa (disambiguation).

Capsa Network Analyzer
Developer(s)	Colasoft LLC
Stable release	7.8 / 20 August 2014 (2014-08-20)
Operating system	Microsoft Windows
Type	Packet analyzer
License	Freeware Shareware
Website	www.colasoft.com/capsa/

Capsa is the name for a family of packet analyzer developed by Colasoft for network administrators to monitor, troubleshoot and analyze wired & wireless networks. Currently, there are three editions available: Capsa Enterprise Edition, Capsa Professional Edition, and Capsa Free Edition.

Functionality

Wired & wireless network real-time packet capturing -- (Packets never lies)
Traffic & bandwidth monitoring -- (Which machines are downloading or watching online videos?)
Advanced protocol analysis -- (What network protocols are used in your network? HTTP - web browsing, MSN - chatting.)
Multiple network behavior monitoring -- (What the users are doing: web browsing, chatting?)
Expert network diagnosis -- (Are there any attacks and problems in my network?)
Network activity logging -- (Who and when visited which website/chatted with whom/sent email to whom?)
Email contents preservation -- (Need to save a copy of all emails' contents sent/received by your employee in your network as evidence?)
Quick & intuitive reports -- (Need rich charts and graphs in your presentations and reports? )
In-depth packet decoding -- (What is the original information in network communications?)

Advance Features

Captures packets from a single or multiple network adapters
Analyzes the header & contents of each packet
Provides statistics on MAC & IP address
Analyze Protocol (Data link -> Application Layer)
Diagnoses 40 kinds of network problems
Presents statistics in graphs
Alerts Computer network anomalies
Outputs packets & logs to files
Logs DNS, web browsing, Email, FTP & IM services

Capsa Enterprise Edition

Capsa Enterprise Edition is the flagship of Colasoft Capsa packet analyzer family, it supports both Ethernet and WLAN networks. It performs 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 Professional Edition

Capsa Professional Edition is an 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

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.

Comparison of editions

Feature	Description	Enterprise Edition	Professional Edition
Network Type	Ethernet	1000 Mbit/s	1000 Mbit/s
Network Type	WLAN	Yes
Multiple Adapters	Capture packets from multiple wired adapters	Yes	Yes
Local IP addresses	The limit of LAN IP addresses can be analyzed	10000	1024
Project	Running simultaneously	4	4
TAP	Capture traffic from a TAP	Yes	Yes
Replay Speed	Normal speed and Fast speed	Both	Both
Report	Customize and output Report in HTML/PDF/MHT	Yes
Diagnosis	Diagnosis tab for auto-diagnosed problems	Yes
Security Analysis Profile	Enhanced security analysis modules	Yes
Operating Systems	Windows XP	Yes^*	Yes
	Windows Server 2003	Yes^*	Yes
	Windows Server 2008	Yes	Yes
	Windows Vista	Yes	Yes
	Windows 7	Yes	Yes

^*Wireless traffic analysis is not supported on this OS version

Source:^[1]

References

↑ "Capsa - Compare Editions". Colasoft. Retrieved November 25, 2012.