Broadcom DX NetOps vs Colasoft Capsa
Broadcom DX NetOps
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| Figure | Broadcom DX NetOps | Colasoft Capsa |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | — | Free |
| Free plan | — | Yes |
| Free trial | — | Yes |
| Open source | — | — |
| Windows | — | Yes |
| API | Yes | — |
| Self-hosted | Yes | — |
| Plans published | 0 | 6 |
| Spec score · Network Monitoring | 7.7 (#29) | 8.9 (#6) |
| Integrations | DX NetOps offers ITSM, ticketing, and collaboration integrations including ServiceNow, Remedy, Jira, and PagerDuty, with two-way access to tickets and monitoring details. | The pages opened describe protocol and application analysis, but do not identify named third-party integrations. |
| Intended users | Broadcom positions DX NetOps for network operations center teams managing complex, multi-vendor networks. | Colasoft describes Capsa Enterprise as designed for small business and enterprise users, including network administrators and engineers. |
| Purpose | DX NetOps gives network operations teams unified visibility across multi-vendor infrastructure, including topology, logs, user experience, and flow data. | Capsa is a portable network analyzer for monitoring, analyzing, and troubleshooting wired and wireless networks. |
| Support | Broadcom directs DX NetOps customers to open support cases under the Network Observability product and select the relevant component. | Colasoft maintenance includes priority email support, free product updates, and access to prerelease products during the maintenance period. |
Plans
Colasoft Capsa
- Capsa FreeFree
- Capsa FreeFree
- Capsa Standard$295, paid once
- Capsa Professional$695, paid once
- Capsa Enterprise$995, paid once
- Capsa Enterprise$1,295, paid once
In their own words
Broadcom DX NetOps
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Colasoft Capsa
Colasoft Capsa is a Windows network analyzer for monitoring, analyzing and troubleshooting wired and wireless networks. The Enterprise edition captures packets in real time from local networks and can save transmitted data. It analyzes more than 1,800 protocols and sub-protocols, including VoIP, and displays packet details in Hex, ASCII and EBCDIC. Capsa can diagnose network problems and suggest solutions, monitor conversations, reconstruct packet streams and generate reports for selected items, the whole network or a particular network group. Its security analysis detects DoS and DDoS attacks, worm activity, ARP attacks, TCP port scans and suspicious conversations in real time. Users can set email or sound alerts and schedule capture once, daily or weekly. Capsa Free monitors up to 10 IP addresses, ends sessions after four hours and lacks WiFi connection monitoring. Professional is listed at $695, paid once for a single-seat perpetual license, one machine and one year of maintenance. Enterprise is $1,295, paid once and has a 30-day trial.