Alcatel-Lucent OmniVista Reviews

Alcatel-Lucent OmniVista offers valuable features like Visual RAF, scalability, stability, and detailed reporting capabilities. It enhances network management and security, providing analytics and health analysis. Users appreciate its unified management for routers, switches, and WiFi, allowing for easy monitoring of WiFi signal strength, switch speed, bandwidth, and user access. The software simplifies configuration management, supports real-time network monitoring, and requires no physical interface for user creation. Its user-friendly command line aids in network implementation.

• "The solution is easy to manage."
• "The command line is very user-friendly, making it easy to implement the network."
• "OmniVista is a unified solution. It makes management easier in case the router, switch and the WiFi are of the same brand. It also allows us to monitor the WiFi signal strength, switch speed, and bandwidth consumption, and easily block users. We also use the analytics feature, which provides a dashboard showing the number of users per WiFi access point, signal strength, and internet performance. It also monitors the temperature of the equipment."

Alcatel-Lucent OmniVista needs enhancements in reporting capabilities and integration with AI. Users desire improved WiFi connectivity features, including a reliable heatmap and better security options. The platform demands expensive support with reliance on proprietary licenses, challenging CLI usage, and heat management issues. More public-to-private network transition features and simplification in implementation are needed, along with flexibility in user role changes in certain versions, which limits its current functionality.

• "In version 8.7.70, I am not able to change a user from administrative to room once the user is created."
• "One feature that is missing is the netting feature, which allows for public-to-private network transitions and vice versa."
• "The support of Omnivista could be better. It's very expensive because it requires a subscription for support, and the licenses are proprietary. If you want to scale or expand your operation by adding more WiFi access points, you have to buy another license."