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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.
Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Switches adds reliability, high performance, redundancy, and fast data transfer speeds bringing next generation technology to data centers, cloud, and client/server applications. More then ever Nexus 9000 has now ensured reliable and secure data transfers from end to end and when integrated with Cisco Secure Workflow segmentation on a granular level is made possible.
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
We are pleased with the Cisco products and the 9000 Series Switches have worked well for us. When it's time to refresh the equipment, we will definitely be buying Cisco
It's a good product, perhaps a little expensive but with a long service life. Overall, the NEXUS 9000 series does not have many technical limitations. The update process has always gone smoothly so far, but it is important to follow the upgrade path provided by Cisco, as there is one.
Beyond purely political considerations regarding the use of Chinese products in our company, Cisco NEXUS switches support VPC, which was not the case with our Huawei Cloud Engines, which only supported the stack. This was a real problem during updates because we had to update the entire stack at once, which paralysed an entire rack.
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.
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.
