Capsa is a portable network analyzer for both LAN and WLAN which performs real-time packet capturing, 24/7 network monitoring, advanced protocol analysis, in-depth packet decoding, and automatic expert diagnosis. It provides a comprehensive and high-level visibility for your entire network, and helps network administrators or network engineers quickly pinpoint and resolve various application problems.

Key Features:

• Real-time capture and save data transmitted over local networks, including wired network and wireless network like 802.11a/b/g/n.
• Identify and analyze more than 300 network protocols, as well as network applications based on the protocols.
• Monitor network bandwidth and usage by capturing data packets transmitted over the network and providing summary and decoding information about these packets.
• View network statistics at a single glance, allowing easy capture and interpretation of network utilization data.
• Monitor Internet, e-mail and instant messaging traffic, helping keep employee productivity to a maximum.
• Diagnose and pinpoint network problems in seconds by detecting and locating suspicious hosts; Map out the details, including traffic, IP address, and MAC, of each host on the network, allowing for easy identification of each host and the traffic that passes through each.
• Visualize the entire network in an ellipse that shows the connections and traffic between each host.

Capsa Network Analyzer has three different editions to meet different customer demands:

Capsa Enterprise

Capsa Enterprise not only combines all the features of Capsa Professional and Capsa WiFi, but also has more advanced functions like the exclusive Security Analysis Profile. It performs network monitoring, troubleshooting and analysis for both wired & wireless networks including 802.11a/b/g/n. Whether you're a network administrator who needs to identify, diagnose, and solve network problems quickly, an IT professional who wants to monitor user activities on the network, a security manager who needs to ensure that the corporation's communications assets are safe, Capsa Enterprise could be your best choice

Capsa WiFi

Capsa WiFi delivers wireless network traffic capturing, monitoring and analysis for network administrators to analyze any of the 802.11 a/b/g/n. Based on the latest Network Driver Interface Specification (NDIS) 6.0 library, almost all wireless cards supported by Windows Vista and Windows 7 will work with Capsa WiFi, no special wireless network adapter required.

Capsa WiFi visualizes your wireless network landscape, you can easily find out malicious network access so as to guarantee a secure WLAN.

Capsa Professional

Capsa Professional is the most cost-effective network analyzer software designed for small businesses.

With the great capability of Ethernet monitoring, troubleshooting and analysis, Capsa Professional helps provide you with a secure and visible local network.

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Detailed Explanation of Features

• Extended Network Security Analysis
• Monitor Network Traffic
• Protocol Analyzer, Protocol Analysis
• Packet Analyzer & Packet Decoder
• HTTP, Email, FTP and DNS Logs Analysis
• Map out Each Host in Network
• Automatic and Expert Network Diagnosis
• Visualize all Connections in Matrix
• Network Conversation & Packet Stream
• Useful Build-in Free Network Tools
• Generate Real-time Report with Capsa

System Requirements

Software Systems

• Windows XP (SP 1 or later) and 64bit Edition
• Windows Server 2003 and 64bit Edition
• Windows Vista and 64bit Edition
• Windows 2008 and 64bit Edition
• Windows 7 and 64bit Edition

Hardware Requirements

Minimum Requirements:

• CPU: P4 2.8GHz
• RAM: 2GB
• Internet Explorer 6.0

Recommended System:

• CPU: Intel Core Duo 2.4GHz
• RAM: 4GB or more
• Internet Explorer 6.0 or higher

Supported Network

Ethernet

Capsa will run with a NDIS 3 or higher compatible Ethernet, Fast Ethernet, or Gigabit promiscuous mode network adapter. Promiscuous mode is the ability to have Capsa take over the driver and put it into a mode that will allow it to passively capture all packets on an Ethernet wire, regardless of the address to which they are being sent/received.

Wireless

For wireless packet capture, Capsa Wi-Fi Beta version will be released soon. Colasoft has tested adapters based on Atheros, Ralink, Marvell and Intel chipsets. Other wireless cards may work with this version to the same degree that they worked in prior versions.