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    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

    Preseem

    Score8.8 out of 10
    N/APreseem is Proactive Growth, Customer Support, and Network Operations for regional ISPs, whether they're fixed wireless, fiber, or hybrid. Growth Preseem helps to uncover acquisition and upsell opportunities, deliver great customer experiences, and increase customer loyalty. Customer Loyalty: Preseem helps subscribers achieve a reliable, low-latency internet experience without buffering, lag, or slow internet. Preseem's AP Subscriber…

    $300

    per month

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    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details—Preseem pricing is based on a per subscriber per month basis. Prices start at $0.60 per subscriber per month, with volume discounts available. The minimum monthly subscription is $200.
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Features
    Colasoft CapsaPreseem
    Network Performance Monitoring
    Comparison of Network Performance Monitoring features of Colasoft Capsa and Preseem
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    Ratings
    Preseem
    8.7
    6 Ratings
    9% above category average
    Network monitoring00 Ratings9.16 Ratings
    Baseline threshold calculation00 Ratings9.05 Ratings
    Network capacity planning00 Ratings9.15 Ratings
    Packet capture analysis00 Ratings6.94 Ratings
    Network mapping00 Ratings9.05 Ratings
    Wireless infrastructure monitoring00 Ratings8.96 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Colasoft CapsaPreseem
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.8
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    User Testimonials
    Colasoft CapsaPreseem
    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
    Incentivized
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    Preseem
    For any ISP that wants to know the QoE their customers experience while using their service, Preseem is an excellent choice. The rate plan shaping also makes sure the connection feels fast, even if the speeds are being 100% utilized by the customer. This is not a DPI service though, so you can't classify or shape certain services over others. All traffic is treated fairly, and small flows are moved to the front of the queue to make sure interactive traffic like VOIP, DNS, and gaming is working well ahead of large downloads.
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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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    Preseem
    • Graphical real time data of condition of our network.
    • Real-time data of network performance, network-wide, tower site-wide, sector-wide, and down to the subscriber level. Data that is both current and historical so we can see trends happening before a service-impacting issue arises.
    • The comparison of our network equipment performance compared to identical equipment that others have deployed throughout their entire customer base.
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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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    Preseem
    • The tool could stand to be a little less engineered, but really the ROI isn't there for them to do so. I don't think most of us care about how pretty it looks, more so does it work and can I figure it out in relatively short order.
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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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    Preseem
    Any Amplifi product can show client infrastructure usage and date. the Dream Machine is perfect because it has built-in everything for the client to manage his local network.
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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.
    Incentivized
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    Preseem
    • Best money we have ever spent on technology
    • Night and day difference in application performance after Preseem was implemented.
    • Key tool for customer satisfaction.
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