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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 Network Performance Analysis Solution. 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.

Colasoft Capsa Data Packet Analyzer v7.8

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