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Colasoft Delivers nChronos v4.3 with Multi-Segment Analysis

Tulsa, OK – November 19, 2014– Colasoft LLC (www.colasoft.com), an innovative provider of network analysis solutions, today announced a new version of its flagship product, nChronos Forensic Network Analysis Application. The multi-segment analysis leverages the packets recorded by nChronos to make it easier and quicker for network professionals to analyze the root cause of distributed application performance issues.

Most IT managers are have similar difficulty in diagnosing and solving application performance issues. It’s difficult to determine if the fault is in the network, the application, the server, or something else that is unknown. Hours or days are wasted in “finger pointing”. There are many components involved and troubleshooting a multi-segment network is difficult at best. In the past, IT professionals had to capture traffic separately from different points and manually merge the information into a single trace file to determine the root cause. nChronos will now automatically discover which packets and applications were seen at multiple points in the network. nChronos packet data recorder uses advanced algorithms to match data packets across the network. With nChronos v4.3, network problems such as latency, application errors, network anomalies or slow response can be tamed with greater ease and expediency.

nChronos v4.3 provides an even greater user experience with new and useful functionality and improvements. Below are some of the highlights of these new features included in nChronos v4.3:

1. New views are added including a VLAN View, a MPLS VPN View, a Service Access View and a Port View.
2. Provides millisecond-level traffic statistics and alarms for network links.
3. Storage filter is available and packets can be stored with specified length.
4. Application transaction alarms and application transaction alarm logs are now available.
5. Packets can be downloaded from multiple network links.
6. Combination analysis for IPv4 and IPv6 is available.
7. The packets can now be stamped with switch time.

“We continue to provide an increase in value with additional functionality without sacrificing our easy to use interface. With the addition of multi-segment analysis, as well as the improved Alarm and Reporting function, nChronos now automates the previously tedious process of troubleshooting distributed network issues, with greater efficiency and ease.”, said Brandon Lewis, Director of Customer Support at Colasoft ”.

The evaluation version of nChronos 4.3 is now available on the Colasoft website www.colasoft.com.

From: http://www.colasoft.com/company/news_2014.php

August 20, 2014– 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 7.8, 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 has added full support for VoIP communication analysis. Capsa customers can now, not only monitor VoIP calls, but also drill into a vast collection of call statistics detailing their jitter, loss, and MOS. The new VoIP Explorer and VoIP Diagnostic views allow users to visualize the VoIP data as Capsa visually displays the voice and video quality, assisting users in troubleshooting VoIP networks, software and hardware.

Colasoft has also added a new detailed Port Analysis view to their Capsa Enterprise packet capture application. This new Port Analysis view is quite useful in the analysis of application management issues to determine where the problem actually originates.

In addition to VoIP, Colasoft has added a new “Top Domain Name” view of the network traffic. Colasoft users can now view the traffic utilization by Domain Name in addition to IP Address. Additionally, this new release of Capsa Enterprise has added full support of IMAP4 to the hundreds of already supported protocols. A Free Trial version is available for download at: http://www.colasoft.com/download/products/download_capsa.php

With the increasing number of companies being hacked, Colasoft has seen a dramatic increase in the interest of its Capsa and nChronos products. As noted by Brian K. Smith, Vice President at Colasoft LLC, “Capsa is the only Packet Sniffer and Packet Decoder to provide an easy to use GUI combined with CyberAttack Detection features that were previously found only in more expensive Intrusion Detection Applications. Colasoft Capsa now offers the Network Engineer one of the most robust Bandwidth and Packet Analysis tools available.”

With the release of Capsa 7.8 there is now added support for protocols like: IMAP4, 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.

Capsa 7.8 is compatible with Windows XP/2003/2008/Vista/Windows 7/Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012. A trial version is available for download at: http://www.colasoft.com/download/products/download_capsa.php

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June 22, 2010 – Colasoft, an innovative provider of all-in-one and easy-to-use network analyzer software, today announced the newest version 7.2.1 of its flagship product-Capsa network analyzer, which is the combination of powerful monitoring, alerting, and reporting capabilities. In this version, two long-awaited monitors are added in: IM monitor and Email monitor.

Emails are provided to employees as an efficient means of communication, along with this technological advancement are many collateral problems concerning enterprise information security, such as email worm thread, disclosure of trade secrets or other enterprises’ confidential information, etc. Capsa 7.2.1 provides you with powerful email monitoring. With the captured email file, you are accessible not only to basic email information such as client, server, sender name, time, etc, but also to the original content of the email. Capsa 7.2.1 supports auto-saving email content. All of the email information is captured and saved, which will serve as valuable electronic evidence when needed.

MSN (aka Live Messenger) and Yahoo Messenger are two of the most popular chat tools on internet, IM monitoring is a necessary and effective method for enterprises to ensure employees’ work efficiency. Capsa 7.2.1 gives a real-time instant message monitoring and recording. Capsa 7.2.1 is able to deliver the most accurate MSN and Yahoo messenger monitoring statistics which can be exported and saved for further analysis. To some extent, IM monitor helps enterprise achieve effective management as well as improve network and economic performance.

Besides IM and Email monitors, considering our users may have useful project files saved by version 6.9, Capsa 7.2.1 supports opening project file from Capsa 6.9.

Capsa 7.2.1 runs under Windows XP/2003/Vista/7. A trial version is available for download at the company’s website: http://www.colasoft.com/

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

Ever since 2001, Colasoft 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 5000 customers in over 80 countries trust the company’s flagship product, Capsa Packet Sniffer, as their network monitoring and troubleshooting solution. Featured customers include Alcatel, Airbus, Dell, Ericsson, IBM, Intel, and Pepsi. Learn more about Colasoft and its solutions, please visit http://www.colasoft.com/