Colasoft Capsa vs. Siemens Questa

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Colasoft Capsa
Score 9.0 out of 10
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Colasoft 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
Siemens Questa
Score 10.0 out of 10
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Questa, from Siemens, automates verification and debug of complex SoCs and FPGAs, in order to increase productivity and help companies manage resources more efficiently. Questa technologies aim to maximize the effectiveness of verification at the block, subsystem, and system levels.N/A
Pricing
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Offerings
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Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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User Ratings
Colasoft CapsaSiemens Questa
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9.0
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User Testimonials
Colasoft CapsaSiemens Questa
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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Siemens AG
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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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Siemens AG
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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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Siemens AG
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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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Siemens AG
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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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Siemens AG
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