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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Colasoft Capsa

    Score9 out of 10
    N/AColasoft Capsa is a network performance monitoring and protocol analyzing tool. Capsa provides core monitoring features, as well as automated diagnostics and packet decoding. Colasoft offers a limited free version of the software.N/A

    NetVizura NetFlow Analyzer

    Score7.6 out of 10
    Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
    NetVizura NetFlow Analyzer, from Soneco, is designed to help network admins with network traffic monitoring, analysis and reporting. The vendor says their solution enables users to do the following: Monitor network bandwidth on routers and interfaces Monitor custom traffic on IP subnets and IP subnets groups Monitor end user traffic (username based) Quickly get insight into traffic structure (top talkers) by hosts, services, protocols, conversations, QoS,…N/A
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    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details—Price is based on the number of processed flows. No limitations on the number of user, interfaces etc.
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    User Ratings
    Colasoft CapsaNetVizura NetFlow Analyzer
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
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    User Testimonials
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    Likelihood to Recommend
    Colasoft
    Capsa is highly recommended to be used in small dense areas of a network where it makes sense to be able to run analytics off of a mirror port to gain insight into traffic trends. It is a costly product to install in branch locations, and requires a decent spec hardware to run appropriately
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    Soneco
    The capacity planning was a big help in our company as we grew the number of connected locations. Grow or die is pretty much the business model of today but that growth is only as good as the network it travels on. Being able to recommend appropriate network requirements is a big deal in our line of business.
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    Pros
    Colasoft
    • Robust Application. Able to handle traffic that most businesses will throw at it.
    • Easy to use. Easy to setup captures and filter down to specific traffic types.
    • Relatively cheap for what it's able to accomplish.
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    Soneco
    • Ease of use
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    Cons
    Colasoft
    • Needs options to scale to 10Gb/s networks. The cutoff for performance looks to be around 3Gb/sl
    • Needs API access to trigger capturesl
    • Needs Agents for remote capturesl
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    Soneco
    • At this point, I don't have any suggestion for improvements.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Colasoft
    Colasoft performs more like the traditional wireshark as opposed to other solutions that tend to focus on graphs instead of giving you the raw data. I personally prefer the raw data, and then the ability to build graphs upon this (which Capsa can do). This allows for quicker analysis and makes it easier to relate to.
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    Soneco
    Easier to use
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    Return on Investment
    Colasoft
    • While the product doesn't detect malware, it has helped track down malware infected machines by using data from other applications to run filters to look for known traffic destinations for that malware. For me this is a huge ROI since malware can be the great unknown.
    • Relatively cheap compared to the feature set.
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    Soneco
    • As I mentioned in a previous statement, the capacity planning was the big thing. In our line of business, speed is everything. Customers hate to be slowed down so having the appropriate network connections is a must.
    • Anomaly Detection with the threshold based alerting has made our network team more proactive in stopping things before they can really affect the company.
    • Productivity with the use of monitoring conversations and amount of used bandwidth has helped weed out the works versus the campers.
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    NetVizura NetFlow Analyzer Screenshots

    Screenshot of Interface traffic monitoring in NetVizuraScreenshot of IP subnet traffic monitoring in NetVizuraScreenshot of Investigating flow records in NetVizuraScreenshot of Setting top talker number per node in NetVizuraScreenshot of End user traffic monitoring in NetVizuraScreenshot of Dashboard overview in NetVizura