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Colasoft Announces Release of UPM Unified Performance Management Platform v5.6

Chengdu, China, December 16, 2019-Colasoft Co., Ltd., a visionary provider of network performance analysis and diagnostics solutions, today announced the launch of UPM Unified Performance Management Platform v5.6. UPM is a network performance management platform that can comprehensively monitor the service quality of all nodes of business systems, quickly find and locate issues affecting key business performance and stability. It is designed to improve operation efficiency and capability of network troubleshooting, and provides analysis ability such as business-centric network grooming, real-time performance monitoring, and rapid issues location around the enterprise business network.

To avoid business disruption, data loss, economy and trust loss when a “disaster” occurs, disaster recovery design and regular drills are important for fintech firms. UPM 5.6 provides a backup monitor feature to monitor the switchover scenario for disaster recovery drill process. With the backup feature, users can get a visualized view of the real-time monitor and statistics for the switchover and business validation.

Meanwhile, UPM 5.6 optimized the custom metric monitor feature, which enables users to customize a metric monitor dashboard with any desired metrics.

Furthermore, with previous versions, users have to launch an Expert Analyzer from nChronos Console to decode packets, while with the version 5.6, UPM provides an online decoding feature, which allows users to get the decoding view by just some clicks.

“ “For enterprise customers, they do need a network performance analysis system like nChornos, but which is not enough, more and more users asked for a business-oriented solution which can comprehensively monitor and analyze network. So we release UPM after nChronos.” said Kang Lin, CEO of Colasoft. “And that is what nChronos and UPM deliver.”

The latest release of UPM features:

Add Renter role to User Group.
Renter link can be enabled in Link Configuration.
Add view grouping function to Custom Monitor.
Add text and picture components to Custom Monitor.
Link Traffic Analysis supports displaying IP alias and MAC alias.
Add storage configuration and monitoring based on time bucket.
Add multidimensional table type of link chart to Report.
Logo and Signature can be customized in Report.
Support analyzing SNMP data.
Advanced filter function is supported in Custom Monitor table component.

An evaluation version of UPM v5.6 is available for download at http://www.colasoft.com/download/products/upm.php

About Colasoft

Since 2001, Colasoft has dedicated itself to the development of NPMD (network performance monitoring and diagnostics) software and hardware solutions. More than 10000 commercial customers from over 100 countries choose Colasoft NPMD solutions, including government agencies, financial services, education, manufacturing, transportation, utilities and energy. Featured customers include IBM, Dell, Philips, Emerson, and other industry leading companies. Learn more at www.colasoft.com.

Colasoft nChronos Network Performance Analysis System Achieves IPv6 Ready Logo Phase-2 Certification

Chengdu, China, Septebmer 6, 2019-Colasoft Co., Ltd., a visionary provider of network performance analysis and diagnostics solutions, today announced Colasoft nChronos Network Performance Analysis System was officially passed the IPv6 Ready Logo Phase-2 test at Beijing Internet Institute BII which is one of the member of IPv6 Ready Logo Committee (v6LC), and get the IPv6 Ready Logo Phase-2 certification issued by IPv6 Forum (Logo ID:02-C-001953). It indicates that the implementation of IPv6 core protocol of Colasoft nChronos Network Performance Analysis System has fully complied with the relevant standards of the IETF RFC, and its consistency and interoperability have been verified by authority.

About Colasoft nChronos

Colasoft nChronos Network Performance Analysis System is an application centric, deep-dive network performance analysis system. It combines the nChronos Console with the nChronos Server to deliver the capability of 24x7 continuous packet capturing, unlimited data storage, efficient data mining and in depth traffic analysis solution. nChronos captures 100% of all data captured for real-time analysis as well as historical playback.

About IPv6 Ready Logo

The IPv6 Forum, a world-wide consortium, with a key focus to provide technical guidance for the deployment of IPv6, launched a single world-wide IPv6 Ready Logo Program (conformance and interoperability testing). The IPv6 Ready Logo Program is a conformance and interoperability testing program intended to increase user confidence by demonstrating that IPv6 is available now and ready to be used.

The IPv6 Ready Phase-2 (Gold) Logo will indicate that a product has successfully satisfied strong requirements stated by the IPv6 Logo Committee (v6LC).

Colasoft Announces Release of nChronos Network Performance Analysis System v5.6

Chengdu, China, August 7, 2019-Colasoft Co., Ltd., a visionary provider of network performance analysis and diagnostics solutions, today announced the launch of nChronos Network Performance Analysis Solution v5.6. nChronos designed for 24x7 network packets capturing, analysis and storage, dedicated to the sustainable, efficient and safe running of networks, and provides a reliable data basis for determining constructive suggestions for enterprise profit growth.

Customer requirements for usability of nChronos drove the demand for the new version. With nChronos v5.6, users can fast drill down and locate the data which they want to check, and analyze traffic in an individual window. The new version also provide sublink configuration with 7 types, and add new burst alarm type to improve the usability.

“Nowadays, the network not only supports the business, but also driving the business. Network administrators need to see, manage and act on the network,” said Kang Lin, CEO of Colasoft. “Obviously, they need a visible, fast, and easy to use NPMD solution. That is what nChronos delivering for enterprise customers.”

The latest release of nChronos features:

Add custom analysis in new window.
Physical address supports virtual interface configuration.
Custom application analysis and application alarm for Netflow traffic.
Add sublinks for VLAN, VXLAN, MPLS VPN, ISL VLAN and network segment.
Add burst alarm type.
Traffic alarms support setting metric key value.
Add new metrics, including bps 95p peak, client IP quantity, slow connections and 0 window delay.
Add 1-minute baseline for links and applications on two metrics, total conversations and new conversations.

An evaluation version of nChronos v5.6 is available for download at http://www.colasoft.com/download/products/nchronos.php

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Colasoft Announces Release of Capsa Network Analyzer v12 with New Analysis Profile

Chengdu, China, July 23, 2019-Colasoft Co., Ltd., an innovative provider of network performance analysis and diagnostics solutions, today announced the release of Capsa Network Analyzer v12, a real-time portable network analyzer for wired and wireless network monitoring, bandwidth analysis and network troubleshooting.

The highlight of Capsa 12 is to add a new analysis profile, Full Traffic Decoding, which is used for displaying the decoding field of a certain protocol. With the new analysis profile, users can get the correlative decoding field value, conversation statistics and packets information. It is convenient for users to view the protocol decoding field and related statistics.

And in the new version, Capsa 12 users the DPI filter to filter out network packets. Users can customize filter conditions now. Technically, all the protocol decoding fields can be set as the filter condition. Capsa also provides some default filter rules based on protocols in Packet Analysis Filters Settings and Packet Storage Filters Settings.

Besides, Capsa provides a new function to show window size and RTT value for each TCP conversation. It is convenient for users to locate performance issues based on TCP conversations.

“With the release of Capsa 12, Colasoft enhanced the function of packet filter. Users can define filter conditions in the analysis profile before starting a capture. Such improvements show that we are always user-oriented.” said Eddie Gao, CIO at Colasoft, “We are working to provide Capsa which has very friendly interface, high reliability and good application effect.”

Capsa v12 is compatible with Windows 7/8/10 and Windows Server 2008/2012. A trial is available for download at http://www.colasoft.com/download/products/download_capsa.php

About Capsa

Capsa is an easy-to-use packet sniffer (network analyzer or network sniffer) for network monitoring and troubleshooting purposes. It performs real-time packet capturing, 24x7 network monitoring, reliable network forensics, advanced protocol analyzing, in-depth packet decoding, and automatic expert diagnosing. By giving you insights into all of your network's operations, Capsa makes it easy to isolate and solve network problems, identify network bottleneck and bandwidth use, and detect network vulnerabilities.

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Colasoft Named a Visionary in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Network Performance Monitoring and Diagnostics for Second Consecutive Year

Chengdu, China, February 12, 2019-Colasoft Co., Ltd. today announced that it has been named a Visionary in 2019 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Network Performance Monitoring and Diagnostics for the second consecutive year, authored by Sanjit Ganguli and Ted Corbett, published on February 7, 2019.

“We are proud and pleased to see that our NPMD hardware and software solutions have been recognized once again as a visionary by Gartner,” said Kang Lin, CEO of Colasoft. “Colasoft places a strong focused on R&D, and more than one-third of our employees are committed to developing products which are related to NPMD solution. It ensures the stability of the output frequency of the new functions. We insists on deep technology in the field of network traffic analysis. Based on fast protocol decoding engine technology, the solution offering the ability of PB-level traffic data storage and second-level data retrieval, which ensure the best experience in business insights and help users solve network issues.”

As Gartner mentioned, Colasoft’s NPMD solution consists of three components: Unified Performance Management (UPM), nChronos and Capsa. UPM is the visualization layer that delivers business- and service-oriented performance views, network path analysis, and performance issue detection, all based on data collected by nChronos. nChronos provides packet capture with historical and real-time analysis of application-oriented performance metrics for every TCP conversation. Capsa is a network analyzer that provides packet sniffing and capture when application decoding and deep domain analysis are required. A limited version of Capsa, Capsa Free, is also available to download.

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