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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.

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

Ethernet

Ethernet is a family of computer networking technologies for local area networks commercially introduced in 1980. Standardized in IEEE 802.3, Ethernet has largely replaced competing wired LAN technologies....

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

Capsa WiFi is a WiFi

WIFI

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wireless network analyzer developed by Colasoft for 802.11 a/b/g/n wireless network monitoring

Network monitoring

The term network monitoring describes the use of a system that constantly monitors a computer network for slow or failing components and that notifies the network administrator in case of outages...

, analyzing and troubleshooting.
Based on the Network Driver Interface Specification

Network Driver Interface Specification

The Network Driver Interface Specification is an application programming interface for network interface cards . It was jointly developed by Microsoft and 3Com Corporation, and is mostly used in Microsoft Windows, but the open-source NDISwrapper and Project Evil driver wrapper projects allow...

(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

Capsa Professional Edition is a Ethernet

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

Freeware

Freeware is computer software that is available for use at no cost or for an optional fee, but usually with one or more restricted usage rights. Freeware is in contrast to commercial software, which is typically sold for profit, but might be distributed for a business or commercial purpose in the...

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.

Compare Editions

Feature	Description	Enterprise Edition	WiFi	Professional Edition	Free Edition
Network Type	Ethernet	1000 Mbps		1000 Mbps	1000 Mbps
Network Type	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

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