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As the big holiday Thanksgiving is coming very soon, Colasoft are wishing all of our customers and software users a great Thanksgiving! It’s time to sharing and spreading happiness, to celebrate this great holiday, we are preparing a big sale to offer you the most cost-effective software. It is coming very soon and up to 40% discount for both Capsa network analyzer and Colasoft nChronos will be available.

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We are very excited to release the availability of Capsa Network Analyzer7.5. Except for the enhanced user interface, the biggest highlight of Capsa Network Analyzer7.5 is TCP flow analysis which makes it easier for network administrators to analyze application performance and pinpoint critical performance issues.

Capsa Network Analyzer 7.5 presents a comprehensive high-level overview of application health on your network. From TCP transaction analysis, you can easily access to more detailed information, including TCP server/client response time, delay, retransmissions, and further down to the server flow to observe the actual media content of the flow. “This unparalleled level of control and visibility speeds time to resolve application problems and minimize overall network downtime,” said Ocean Yu, Vice President at Colasoft.

In addition to MSN and Yahoo Messenger monitor, Capsa Network Analyzer 7.5 added ICQ monitor to meet the market demands. ICQ logs can be easily found at the log tab where detailed information is vividly displayed. Moreover, RADIUS protocol is supported as a new member in the more than 300 protocol analysis family.

Top Highlights of Capsa Network Analyzer 7.5:

1. Powerful TCP flow analysis for application performance optimization
2. Add ICQ monitor to analyze and log ICQ activities
3. Support RADIUS protocol analysis
4. Intuitive TCP transaction sequence diagram
5. Enhanced user interface & performance

Capsa 7.5 runs under Windows XP/2003/2008/Vista/7. A trial version is available for download.

Today we are very happy to announce the release of nChronos Free, the industry’s first retrospective network analysis freeware and rapid continuous network traffic capturing and analysis solution which offers great capabilities in troubleshooting real-time networks and fastest drilling down to back-in-time network analysis to thousands of network professionals.

nChronos Free enables network administrators and professionals to realize high-speed massive network packet real-time capture and record, provides efficient data mining, in-depth network traffic analysis, drill down to isolate performance issues and troubleshooting high-priority and critical network issues. nChronos Free offers home offices or SMB who could not afford costly network analysis solutions the capability of remote data capturing, efficient network troubleshooting, application and device performance evaluation and optimization.

“The advanced capabilities of nChronos Free are very essential to enterprises or organizations whose networks are challenged by growing network traffic and performance expectations, said Roy Luo, CEO at Colasoft. “nChronos Free make it easy for network professionals to maintain a well-performed and productive network by quickly pinpointing critical network issues”.

“Network professionals are not only able to capture network traffic in real-time and display detailed statistics including protocols, network utilization, and so on, but also to view analysis results of any specific time duration, benchmark the network performance, and audit network user activities with forensics from the historical network traffic”, said Eddie Gao, CTO at Colasoft. “By continuously recording network traffic for back-in-time analysis, all critical network issues that threaten network performance and network security would be proactively resolved”.

Key Features of nChronos Free

Perform 7×24 real-time packet capturing to storage for application and network forensics analysis and back-in-time troubleshooting
Efficient drill-down for traffic data-mining and index for rapid data retrieval and application isolation
Provide detailed statistics of protocols, IP/TCP conversations, network utilization to baseline and visualized trends of network performance
Monitor critical events on any critical links with customizable alerts
In-depth network traffic analysis to optimize performance

nChronos retrospective network analysis freeware is available for download HERE .

May 31, 2011, Colasoft, the leading provider of innovative network analysis solutions, today announces the launch of nChronos retrospective network analysis software, providing customers with great capabilities to troubleshoot high performance networks and pinpoint critical performance & application issues.

As a brand new retrospective product, nChronos’ release has poured fresh and great power to Colasoft Network Analysis Technology. It performs massive packet capturing and recording, efficient data mining and in-depth network traffic analysis to empower customers the capability of visualizing the overall enterprise network activities, drilling down to isolate performance issues and troubleshooting high-priority and critical network issues. Furthermore, it consists of servers and consoles to achieve expediently remote data capture, decoding and analysis for efficient network troubleshooting, application and device performance evaluation and optimization.

“With nChronos, IT professionals are able to view a specific window of time to troubleshoot network problems, benchmark the network performance, and audit network user activities with forensics from the historical network traffic”, said Eddie Gao, CTO of Colasoft, “Exclusively, nChronos provides scalable mass storage capacity varies from 1TB to unlimited storage for packets and statistics retrieval to meet the customizable network requirements”.

Features of nChronos retrospective network traffic software:

7×24 real-time packet capturing and recording for forensics analysis
Retrospectively analyze historical traffic of any time period
Baseline and visualized trends of network performance
Critical links monitoring & alerting
In-depth network traffic analysis to optimize performance
Efficient drill-down for traffic data-mining & index

An evaluation copy of nChronos retrospective network analysis software is available. Click here to request.

Author: David M Williams

Colasoft Capsa WiFi has just released for one month, and it is now firstly reviewed by David M Williams from IT Wire, a professional editor who articularly specialises in mergers and acquisitions and enterprise applications. Let’s enjoy his review.

WiFi traffic is, by nature, more ethereal than its wired equivalent. Specialised tools are necessary to diagnose wireless network faults, and Colasoft has extended its excellent Capsa line with a new product to sniff and analyse your WiFi network.

As with other tools in Colasoft’s range, Capsa WiFi is a packet sniffer which stands out from the competition by its superb user interface. There are no cryptic or arcane command lines to worry about.

Instead, Windows-basd network administrators can interrogate and inspect raw packet data through a clean, Microsoft Office-style GUI that turns normally complex tasks into straightforward drop-down lists and menu options.

Capsa WiFi understands the gamut of 802.11 protocols and can listen in on any connectible access point that your laptop can reach. You might wish to plug into a cabled network because Capsa WiFi will disconnect you from any WiFi connections in order to do its work. However, it is capable of sniffing traffic across multiple WiFi networks provided they use the same station ID.

Network analysis, by nature, involves vast amounts of data flying by so it is essential for a tool to save data to a buffer, and to allow the user to hone in on the information that matters. Capsa WiFi provides a range of easy to use filters and rules that make this very simple, but effective.

Capsa WiFi weighs in at $USD 699.00 but the product can pay for itself when used on a network of reasonable size and complexity.

Among the many uses of a packet sniffer are to diagnose network intrusions, troubleshoot DHCP problems, analyse network utilisation, uncover reasons for slow network performance, analyse broadcast traffic, raise unattended alerts on abnormal traffic and many other things.

While other network analysis tools exist, Capsa WiFi stands out – as with the rest of the Colasoft range – by its excellent user interface and rich feature suite.

We are very pleased to announce that Colasoft Capsa network analyzer has been upgraded to version 7.4, with great new features and enhanced interface and user experience.

Colasoft Capsa 7.4 is now capable of monitoring, troubleshooting and analyzing 802.11 a/b/g/n wireless networks, which make Capsa not only an Ethernet network analyzer, but a packet sniffer for both wired and wireless networks. Besides that, Capsa interface and user experience has been highly enhanced, too. We have made many changes and improvements like optimize start page layout, network profile settings, and so on.

Key Features of Colasoft Capsa 7.4:

Enterprise-class capabilities including NOC level visibility
Network Monitoring and Application Performance Monitoring
24*7 Continuous Network Traffic Capturing
Expert Analytics in Real-time and Post-capture
Extended Security Analysis
Traffic Statistics & Bandwidth Utilization
In-depth Packet Decoding and Ability to Drill Down for Network & Security Forensics

Colasoft Capsa 7.4 now has full different editions to meet different demands: enterprise edition, professional edition, WiFi edition and free edition. Free trails are all available at www.colasoft.com.

We are very happy to announce the arrival of Colasoft Capsa WiFi wireless network analyzer-the new member of Colasoft Network Analyzer Family to the public.

Capsa WiFi is a powerful and professional wireless network analyzer designed for complete 802.11 a/b/g/n wireless network troubleshooting, monitoring and analysis, with any of the most popular wireless network adapters. Capsa WiFi focuses on evolving its solution to enhance the security level as well as improve the reliability and visibility of services for wireless networks, and therefore maximize the value of the IT organization.

“After two months beta testing, we received many professional test reports from Colasoft Testing Group, which help making great improvement to this wireless network analyzer”, said Eddie Gao, CTO of Colasoft, “The beta version has proved to be fully functional and very successful. It has gained very high recognition in network community for its high reliability and great packets capturing and analyzing ability of 802.11 a/b/g/n networks. And based on testers’ feedbacks and suggestions, interfaces and user experiences have been enhanced magnificently. You will enjoy a much cleaner and friendly interface, especially a simple start page which straightly guides you to your wireless network analysis journey.”

Key Features of Capsa 7.4 WiFi wireless Network Analyzer:

Support 802.11a/b/g/n
Auto identify and decode with pre-entered WEP/WPA/WPA2 key
Compatible with all NDIS 6.0 wireless network adapters
Auto -scan all access points in the air
Capture all wireless network packets from one or more APs and keep APs records
Log DNS, Emails (SMPT POP3), FTP, HTTP & IM messages (MSN & Yahoo Messenger)
Provide customizable analysis profile and 40 expert diagnosed network problems
Provide powerful and customizable reports
Analyze post-events by replaying packet files

Click here to download the free trail of this great wireless network analyzer.

We are very glad to share with you that Capsa for WiFi, a professional and powerful wireless network analyzer is coming very soon. Not for long, it will officially be the new member of Colasoft Capsa network analyzer family.

Stay close:-)

Dear customers,

Capsa Testing Group, dedicated to advancing the understanding and practice of Capsa software testing, is now established and waiting for your participation!

Join us in the effort to develop a better Capsa for WiFi by enrolling to Capsa Testing Group. You will not only have the chance to make a difference and get your needs implemented into the product, but also win an ipad and free license.

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