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February 26, 2013 – Colasoft, an Oklahoma company, is a leading provider of innovative, affordable, network analysis software solutions. Colasoft today announced the release of its latest Capsa Network Analyzer, version 7.7, a real-time portable network analyzer for wired and wireless network monitoring, bandwidth analysis, and intrusion detection.

In addition to Bandwidth Monitoring and Traffic Analysis, Capsa Enterprise now has Filters and Views to not only alert of a CyberAttack, but also provide the ability to perform detailed packet analysis to assess the impact of the CyberAttack. A Free Trial version is available for download at:   http://www.colasoft.com/download/products/download_capsa.php

Capsa now has the ability allow network engineers to create custom alarm rules to monitor for network anomalies, such as excessive traffic throughput, excessive broadcast packets, suspicious conversations, and much more.  Capsa 7.7 will now provide alarm alerts and email notification the moment an alert is triggered allowing you to react in minutes to a network violation or CyberAttack.

“Capsa is the only Packet Sniffer and Packet Decoder to provide an easy to use GUI combined with CyberAttack Detection features”, said Brian K. Smith, Vice President at Colasoft LLC, “found only in a more expensive Intrusion Detection Application. Colasoft Capsa now offers the Network Engineer one of the most robust Bandwidth and Packet Analysis tools available.”

With the release of Capsa 7.7 over 10 new decoders were added for protocols like; SIP, SDP, MEGACO/H.248, MGCP, Q.931, SAP, H.225, RMI, Oracle, MMS, GOOSE, SMV, and GMRP. Capsa also added several new VoIP protocols. Capsa inherently analyzes VoIP issues, like voice quality QOS, dropped packets and connectivity issues.

The following are brief descriptions for some of these protocols:

• SIP (Session Initiation Protocol): a widely used protocol for controlling communication sessions such as voice and video calls over Internet Protocol (IP).
• SDP (Session Description Protocol): a format for describing streaming media initialization parameters [RFC 4566].
• MEGACO/H.248: known as Gateway Control Protocol, a recommendation from ITU Telecommunication Standardization Sector (ITU-T) which defines protocols that are used between elements of a physically decomposed multimedia gateway.
• MGCP (Media Gateway Control Protocol): a protocol used for controlling media gateways on Internet Protocol (IP) networks and the public switched telephone network (PSTN).
• Q.931: the ITU standard ISDN connection control signaling protocol, forming part of Digital Subscriber Signaling System No. 1.
• SAP (Session Announcement Protocol): an experimental protocol for broadcasting multicast session information [RFC 2974].
• H.225: part of the H.323 family of telecommunication protocols.
• Oracle: a protocol used by Oracle database to transfer data.

Additionally Capsa now offers the ability to alert on “Suspicious Conversations”, to track employee activity or even log and view IM conversations. Capsa helps not only identify “Top Talkers” but also help protect your company against internal employee theft of Intellectual Property.

Capsa 7.7 is compatible with Windows XP/2003/2008/Vista/Windows 7/Windows 8.
A trial version is available for download at:   http://www.colasoft.com/download/products/download_capsa.php

About Capsa

Capsa is an easy-to-use Ethernet packet sniffer (network analyzer or network sniffer) for network monitoring and troubleshooting purposes. It performs real-time packet capturing, 24×7 network monitoring, reliable network forensics, advanced protocol analyzing, in-depth packet decoding, and automatic expert diagnosing. By giving you insights into all of your network’s operations, Capsa makes it easy to isolate and solve network problems, identify network bottleneck and bandwidth use, and detect network vulnerabilities.

About Colasoft

Since 2001, Colasoft, an Oklahoma Company, has been an innovative provider of all-in-one and easy-to-use software solutions for users to monitor network activities, analyze network performance, enhance network security, and troubleshoot network problems. Currently, more than 5,000 customers in over 80 countries trust the company’s flagship product, Capsa Packet Sniffer, as their network monitoring and troubleshooting solution.  Please visit http://www.colasoft.com for more information.

Colasoft received the Best Products of 2012 Award from PC Magazine for Colasoft Capsa, one of our flagship software products designed for LAN and WLAN network monitoring, troubleshooting and analysis. Capsa gets a 4.5-star Editors’ Choice pick for networking utilities.

The editors of PC Magazine note that Capsa is a well-designed, fairly user-friendly (at least for network admins), Windows-oriented network analysis tool that offers network admins deep insight into their networks without the steep learning curve required to learn the ins and outs of Wireshark, plus Capsa is heavier on data visualization.

Source: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2408410,00.asp

Colasoft, an innovative network analysis solution provider, announces its official collaboration with Firewall.cx, one of the world’s leading networking technology websites.

“With this collaboration, more users can benefit from our most popular and multi-awarded software applications covering network and packet analysis solutions, and with feedbacks from the users, slew of improvements will be made at future releases and products.” said Roy Luo, founder and CEO of Colasoft.

Our products, including nChronos back-in-time network analysis server, Capsa network analyzer and freeware will be available on Firewall.cx, and our products will be used for its upcoming network analysis articles.

About Colasoft

Ever since 2001, Colasoft has dedicated itself to the development of innovative network analysis software and solutions. The flagship products nChronos and Capsa network analyzer are offering real-time and back-in-time network analysis solutions for organizations of all sizes. Colasoft is a fast-growing company with more than half million users in over 80 countries. Featured customers include IBM, Dell, Philips, Emerson, and other industry leading companies.

Capability, Customization, User Experience, All Enhanced in nChronos 3.1

Chengdu, China – August 16, 2012 – Colasoft, an innovative provider of network analysis software and solutions, today announced a new version of its flagship product, nChronos back-in-time network analysis solution. Capability, customization and user experience are all enhanced in v3.1 which allow network administrators to easily complete back-in-time and real-time network analysis on high performance enterprise networks over a long period of time.

nChronos now delivers real-time network monitoring, key real-time traffic statistics and charts are available, such as throughput and top IP talkers. It helps maintain a productive enterprise network by providing visibility of the bandwidth usage. Besides, it provides long-term packet capturing and recording, you can zoom in any traffic anomaly which needs deeper investigation and rapidly find out the root to solve the problem. Now, 40-Day time window is available, much longer traffic trends can be displayed and analyzed.

“Our customers want to control both back-in-time and real-time network,” said Kang Lin, Vice President at Colasoft. “The new nChronos capability fulfills both of these needs, and unlike existing solutions in the market, we enable customers enjoy this without paying a high price for what is fundamentally a very simple software solution. It is more flexible.”

Also, alarm is the first line of defense for business networks. Alarm is critical for network administrators to instantly identify and resolve network problems. Practical alarms including email, domain and signature alarms are now available. Traffic anomaly alarm is also enhanced which enables you customize alarms with complicated thresholds to monitor network faults and abnormal activities.

The new nChronos also optimized user interface, security settings and activation mechanism which make a better user experience.

The evaluation version is now available at Colasoft website www.colasoft.com.  

About nChronos
nChronos is a back-in-time network analysis server for high performance & critical enterprise networks including the following key features:

• Back-in-time network analysis of historical traffic for forensics;
• Benchmark and visualize trends of network performance;
• 7×24 real-time network traffic capturing and recording;
• Critical links monitoring & alerting;
• In-depth network analysis for performance optimization;
• Efficient drill-down for data-mining & index;

For more information, please visit http://www.colasoft.com/nchronos/index.php.

About Colasoft
Ever since 2001, Colasoft has dedicated itself to the development of innovative network analysis software and solutions. The flagship products nChronos and Capsa network analyzer are offering real-time and back-in-time network analysis solutions for organizations of all sizes. Colasoft is a fast-growing company with more than half million users in over 80 countries. Featured customers include IBM, Dell, Philips, Emerson, and other industry leading companies. For more information about Colasoft, please visit www.colasoft.com.

Capsa Network Anlayzer 7.6 is newly released! You are welcomed to try all the new features and improvements. The free trail is avaliable for download at Colasoft website.

New features and improvements in Capsa network analyzer 7.6:

Unique Analysis Task Scheduler Used to Preset Time for Analysis Projects;
Global Configurations Can Be Exported & Imported;
Display Filters Are Provided for Isolating & Viewing Particular Items;
Report with User-defined Name & Optional Statistic Items is Available;
Logs can be automatically saved in *.csv format.
Capsa can now identify encryption type of AP automatically.
An MAC address column is added to the Log tab.
Settings for analysis profile have been optimized.
Local engine settings are merged into Options on the Menu button.
Capsa can now decode Tunnel IP in IP protocol.
Analysis profiles, such as Traffic Monitor, Protocol Analysis and IM Analysis have been

Read the detailed descriptions about the new features here. For more information, please visit www.colasoft.com.

Colasoft Thanksgiving big sale is now online! You can get Capsa at the most favorable price. Get coupons of up to 40% off now by clicking here!

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.

Free trail of Capsa network analyzer and nChronos is available for download at our website www.colasoft.com.

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.