Capsa Overview

Capsa, by Colasoft, is a portable network analysis and diagnostic tool that gives organizations complete network views and insights. Network engineers and admins can use Capsa to identify, diagnose, and resolve network issues quickly. Capsa is designed for small business and enterprise network monitoring, troubleshooting, and monitoring on wired and wireless networks alike.

Key Capsa Features and Capabilities

• Real-Time Packet Capture: Capsa captures data packets crossing an organization’s local, wired, and wireless networks in real-time, and stores those packets for analysis to determine if the data should be downloaded, discarded, or archived.
• Protocol Analysis: Capsa provides advanced protocol analysis to monitor, analyze, and identify abnormal activity in network traffic. Capsa supports over 1800 protocols and sub-protocols, including VoIP and other protocol-based network applications.
• Multi-Network Behavior Monitoring: Capsa offers multi-network behavior monitoring tools that monitor network traffic from email and chat applications to identify security or data violations.
• Network Issue Pinpointing: Capsa provides tools to help organizations pinpoint and diagnose network issues or suspicious hosts in seconds.
• Host Statistics: Capsa maps traffic, IP address, and MAC for each host on a company’s network so that hosts can be easily identified and monitored.
• User-Friendly Dashboard: Capsa provides user-friendly dashboards that organizations can use to view network statistics and quickly interpret network utilization data.