Colasoft Capsa vs. Variphy

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

Variphy is well suited for customers that do not have an in-house reporting tool and needs to start collecting trunk usage data; it is suitable for customers planning a system clean up to manage unused DIDs, trunk lines...etc

• 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.

Incentivized

• Our most used function is the Cradle to Grave function in Reporting. We get the full and exact path that any call takes.
• Monthly scheduled reporting is automatically sent to the correct Directors and Managers.
• Dashboards give a quick look at the status of your calls.
• The ability to use "Friendly Names" for fields for ease of user use.

• 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

Incentivized

• The ability to connect to systems that have a hybrid cloud solution so receive statistics from both sides

Because we did experience some non-vendor-related issues during and after implementation, Dre and the team were terrific at working with us to solve the problems and get us up and running.

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.

Incentivized

Service and value (price) is the reason we selected Variphy. The price is really workable for all the capabilities the product has. But no one can match Variphy's service. Some of the people that help me have been there from the company's start. They have a quick response and have solved every problem I have had. Their sales are always there to help when needed.

• 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

• I am not an accountant, but I know that Variphy has paid for itself in customer satisfaction. We have far fewer patient complaints than we did 6 years ago.