In 2010 Riverbed acquired Cace Technologies. One of the greatest products in the Cace portfolio was the Cascade Pilot network analyzer which was a GUI built on top of nPcap and Wireshark. It eventually became rebranded as Riverbed Cascade Pilot, and then Riverbed Steelcentral Packet Analyzer. Cace offered a "personal edition" of the product for small IT shops and network technicians that was around $395 (if I remember correctly). Riverbed continued to offer this for a while as Cascade Pilot PE and then in 2020, it was shelved. Thus began my quest for an affordable, portable network analysis tool to replace Pilot PE. I recently stumbled across Colasoft's CAPSA Portable Network Analyzer tool. After some initial testing in the lab, it has become a new tool in our network analysis toolbox to quickly identify network bandwidth hogs, detect illicit network traffic as well as help locate malware RATs. Colasoft offers a free, limited-function version of the software and a 30-day trial of the Enterprise version, which at $1295 may be 3x what we used to pay for Pilot PE, but it's a great replacement for a product that never should have been shelved by Riverbed.
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