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Dom Fitzgibbon<\/a>Director at PlexNet Pty Ltd<\/span><\/div>
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David,<\/p>\n\n

OptiView XG is indeed a tablet device with both wired (10/100/1000, 1G and 10G) and wireless interfaces (a/b/g/n) and is used to look at all aspects of network troubleshooting. It is a montoring and testing tool with real-time and post processing analysis. A lot of troubleshooting can be done on the tablet without having to take a tracefile capture and view in ClearSight (which is preinstalled). <\/p>\n\n

How would you use it. Well it can autodiscover all devices on your network and providing you allow it to get SNMP information the tool can ascertain devices that are having issues and/or links that are oversubscribed. Whilst this is not unique per se couple this with the ability to do a path analysis out to any device regardless of the number of hops, and the ability to do an 8-stream throughput test at any packet size (or multiples of) up to line-rate speeds of 10G. <\/p>\n\n

Added to this there is the capacity to have software loopback agents installed on a Windows PC so lower speed links can be tested with the OptiView at a centralised point.<\/p>\n\n

The complete OptiView solution also comes with the AirMagnet suite so the system then becomes a complete Wired/Wireless solution.<\/p>\n\n

Finally in the latest version of code this solution then integrates as an endpoint path analysis tool for Fluke Network\'s TruView solution providing a very unique capability.<\/p>\n\n

Downsides... well I guess it is more an upside if used with Cisco devices. Cisco has the capacity to have NetFlow type stats in their MIBs so some extra stats are available. It would be great if it would work like this with all vendors. <\/p>\n\n

At the end of the day a number of these things can be done with a multiple of disparate tools. The OptiView just has them all on one platform at a pretty good price.\n<\/p><\/div>

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it_user143814<\/a>Director of IT at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees<\/span><\/div>
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I am having trouble understanding what this thing is that he purchased and what exactly it does. The text refers to it as a tablet device but I don\'t see how these features could be supported without something significant on the back end. Maybe that is what ClearSight is suppose to be but there is no discussion of the role it plays. In any case, if his team was taling a massive syslog to monitor even a network of this size, I can see how just about anything would seem near miraculous. <\/p>\n\n

There is no downside discussed here, wished for features, discussion of integration or discovery problems, setup and maintenance of configs and data, or costs. Not that I would expect any deployment to go perfectly but these points would certainly add to the review. Or have I just been suckered into a clever direct marketing campaign?<\/p><\/div>

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Nice review. This should truly be a solution of debugging network problems. Than you !<\/p><\/div>

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